An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

We can all be geniuses because one definition of genius is the infinite capacity for taking pains.

I'm getting sick and tired of doing anything half-way.

The best thing I ever learned in life was that things have to be worked for. A lot of people seem to think there is some sort of magic in making a winning football team. There isn't, but there's plenty of work.

If the coach insists upon hard play, but clean play, the team will do likewise.

Boards, boards, boards.

We count on winning. And if we lose, don't beef. And the best way to prevent beefing is - don't lose.