There's never been a greater game than football.

My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'

What is a coach? We are teachers. Educators. We have the same obligations as all teachers, except we probably have more influence than anybody but their families. And, in a lot of cases, more than their families.

When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.

SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.