There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success.

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.

We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

Every time a player goes out there, at least 20 people have some amount of influence on him. His mother has more influence than anyone. I know because I played, and I loved my mama.

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.

If we'd beaten 'em, I wouldn't be going out.

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.