Players who are late say that their time is more important than the team.

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.

Plays are not as important as players, and players are not as important as teammates

Simplify the game as much as possible. When you add, you must subtract.

The only thing success should do is make you more humble.

As a coach, you're just trying to figure out how to keep a team on edge. You've got to find that edge.

You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.