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.

In order to grow, you must accept new responsibilities, no matter how uncertain you may feel or how unprepared you are to deal with them.

There is always someone better than you. Whatever it is that you do for a living, chances are, you will run into a situation in which you are not as talented as the person next to you. That's when being a competitor can make a difference in your fortunes.

You can't pick and choose the days that you feel like being responsible. It's not something that disappears when you're tired.

I am about helping each and every student athlete that selects to wear the orange, you know, be successful at Tennessee individually and as a team. That type of record is certainly not anything that I have aspirations to reach.

If you don't want responsibility, don't sit in the big chair. To be successful, you must accept full responsibility

If I'm not leading by example, then I'm not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.