I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.

I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.

Focus on the process of what it takes to be successful.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

Mediocre people don't like high achievers and high achievers don't like mediocre people.

When you play against good people, that's when you focus your concentration. Your sense of urgency to be disciplined in your execution all become more critical. Sometimes you get away with doing things not quite right against lesser competition, but when you play against real good people that's when it shows up.