I can reach a kid who doesn't have any ability as long as he doesn't know it.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.