If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, "Roll, Tide, Roll!"

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants working toward a common goal.

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

It's awfully important to win with humility. It's also important to lose. I hate to lose worse than anyone, but if you never lose you won't know how to act. If you lose with humility, then you can come back.

All I know is, I don't want to stop coaching, and I don't want to stop winning, so we're gonna break the record unless I die.

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

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.