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

A hard-fought, well-fought, hairline-close game is as classical in sports as tragedy is in the theater. Victory is contained within defeat, and defeat is contained within victory. That's the way it is in the best of games. What counts in sports is not the victory, but the magnificence of the struggle.

The minute you think you've got it made, disaster is just around the corner.

If I had to do it over again, I'd probably play the game the same way.

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.

The will to win is important, but the will to prepare is vital.

You must relate athletic experiences to life.