When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.

We play with enthusiasm and recklessness. We aren't afraid to lose. If we win, great; but win or lose, it is the competition that gives us pleasure.

My name, I have spent my whole life trying to make that name mean something. And now it's gone.

In hindsight, I wish I had done more.

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.

I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.