Recruiting is the lifeblood of any program, so you can't put anything above that, ... But it wouldn't matter who you had here if you didn't have the right mental attitude and work ethic. You need all those elements to come together to do something like we are doing.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

We live in a world that needs entertainment. And that entertainment has to be provided by men who sweat and bleed.

I'm telling you what I'm telling you. I will go wherever I have to go, listen to whoever I have to listen to. Whether it's a player or it's a coach. Whether it's a corporate leader, a political leader or it's the guy sitting on the corner. It doesn't matter to me; I'm on, I'll go wherever.

The how-to is all about day in, day out finding a way to feed the monster, the drive that lives inside.

It comes down to taking care of the people in your program and making them the best they can be-not giving up on them and never failing to be there for them.

I had no plan for that year but it wound up being one of the most important years of my football coaching career. It hit me along the way that I needed to really get at the heart of what's really true to myself. And then I was able to mold it and shape it in the years at SC to become the approach and the concept and the culture that we try to create here at Seattle.