The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

Don't overwork your squad. If you're going to make a mistake, under-work them.

If you don't learn anything but self discipline, then athletics is worthwhile.

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

It's kind of hard to rally around a math class.

Find your own picture, your own self in anything that goes bad. It's awfully easy to mouth off at your staff or chew out players, but if it's bad, and your the head coach, you're responsible. If we have an intercepted pass, I threw it. I'm the head coach. If we get a punt blocked, I caused it. A bad practice, a bad game, it's up to the head coach to assume his responsibility.

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle.