Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

We need people who influence their peers and who cannot be detoured from their convictions by peers who do not have the courage to have any convictions.

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.'

Failure is not getting beat. Failure is when you don't do a good job preparing.

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.

You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.

All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.