Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

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 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 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.

Sacrifice. Work. Self-discipline. I teach these things, and my boys don't forget them when they leave.

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.

My approach to the game has been the same at all the places I've been. Vanilla. The sure way. That means, first of all, to win physically. If you got eleven on a field, and they beat the other eleven physically, they'll win. They will start forcing mistakes. They'll win in the fourth quarter.