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.

You try to make your team do something they're not capable of and you get murdered.

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got yourself a team.

I tell young players who want to be coaches, who think they can put up with all the headaches and heartaches, can you live without it? If you can live without it, don't get in it.

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me.

But there's one thing about quitters you have to guard against - they are contagious. If one boy goes, the chances are he'll take somebody with him, and you don't want that. So when they would start acting that way, I used to pack them up and get them out, or embarrass them, or do something to turn them around.

Baton Rouge happens to be the worst place in the world for a visiting team. It's like being inside a drum.