Mothers yielding Bibles, contemplating smearing the blood of lamb chops over her doorway. Anything to keep her son alive another day.

Most young men are such bores. They haven't lived long enough to learn that they are not the wonders to the world they are to their mothers.

I suppose the mothers of most twelve-year-old boys live with the uneasy conviction that their sons are embarked upon a secret life of crime.

Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!

When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.

Mothers, don't let your sons grow up to be interim coaches.