Football games are generally won by the boys with the greatest desire.

A champion pays an extra price to be better than anyone else.

If there is one thing that has helped me as a coach, it's my ability to recognize winners, or good people who can become winners by paying the price.

But it's still a coach's game. Make no mistake. You start at the top. If you don't have a good one at the top, you don't have a cut dog's chance.

Here's a twenty, bury two.

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.

I didn't have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn't want to. But I didn't think they'd pick one I didn't like.