Here's what Coach really said:

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."

- Vince Lombardi

On using powerful theorems to solve simple problems:

"It's like using a sledgehammer to pound in a thumbtack...use your
head!"

- Daniel Shapiro

On vision:

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were
standing on my shoulders."

- Hal Abelson

On facing an 8-seed in the Stanley Cup playoffs:

"There's nothing so uncertain as a sure thing.  Good night."

- Scotty Bowman, to reporters after an afternoon practice. (The Detroit Red Wings went on to lose the series to the 8th-seeded San Jose Sharks, 4-3.)

On nutrition:

Q.  I have heard that it is possible to live on Guinness and
milk alone.  Is this true, or even partially true?

A.  This is not quite true.  Guinness does contain many vitamins and
minerals in small quantities, but is lacking vitamin C, as well as
calcium and fat.  So to fulfill all of your daily nutritional
requirements you would need to drink a glass of orange juice, two
glasses of milk, and 47 pints of Guinness.

- Nigel Goodwin, University of Nottingham. As printed in New Scientist magazine.

On the two things you don't talk about:

"In the rest of the world, the two things that you can't talk about
are religion and politics.  In Ireland the only things we talk about
are religion and politics."

- Larry Mullen Jr., the drummer for U2

On nonviolence:

"If your opponent has a conscience, then follow Gandhi and
nonviolence.  But if your enemy has no conscience like Hitler, then
follow Bonhoeffer."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

On duty:

"If I am not for myself, who will be?  If I am only for myself, what
am I?  If not now, when?"

- Rabbi Hillel

A Rorschach blot:

"The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values
or religion but rather by its superioriy in applying organized
violence.  Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never
do."

- Samuel Huntington

On success:

"No!  Try not.  Do.  Or do not.  There is no try."

- Yoda