There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.

If you have to 'try hard' to 'try hard, you are already beaten.

Habits are critical for players. They cannot think and play well at the same time.

Shared suffering makes a team a team.

Let your players know that you love them.

Our goal as a team is to keep playing as a group for as long as we can because you will never have that team again. It is like a dying limb, you have to prune it off and let another one grow in its place. That is the way you have to do it, but it still hurts losing these guys and that team because they and you have put so much effort into building a team. Even if you win that last game (and a national championship), it hurts badly because the players know they will never have that same special group of guys together on the same team again. Somebody always goes and somebody new always comes in.

Players must do what you want them to do in pressure situations.