You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach.

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun as it used to be.

I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner.

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.

There ought to be a special place in heaven for coaches' wives.