If I was renowned as as tough coach, I also wanted to be a caring one

You're wondering what a bale of hay has to do with success. Well, there's a trick to loading hay. You have to use your knee. What you do is, you put your right knee behind it and half kick it up in the air. That way you get some lift on it. ... My point is, there are certain ways to make a hard job easier.

I want to keep coaching as long as I can. I love teaching and working with student athletes and I love being at the University of Tennessee.

If it doesn't bother you, it won't bother them.

Accountability is essential to personal growth, as well as team growth. How can you improve if you're never wrong? If you don't admit a mistake and take responsibility for it, you're bound to make the same one again.

Coaches who start listening to fans often wind up sitting next to them.

In the absence of feedback, people will fill in the blanks with a negative. They will assume you don’t care about them or don’t like them.