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

Sure, I'd love to beat Notre Dame, don't get me wrong. But nothing matters more than beating that cow college on the other side of the state!

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.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

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