There is a big difference in wanting to and willing to.

Everybody's got pretty good players now, more players than there've ever been. If you play poorly, you're going to get beat.

Lee Roy was the best college linebacker - bar none. He would have made every tackle on every play if they had stayed in bounds.

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over that day and I'd leave. But as time wore on, I realized that wouldn't have been good at all.

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

There is no substitute for guts.

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.