Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react. If you're in control, they're in control.

Today, you have 100% of your life left.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

Football is to Texas what religion is to a priest.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Perhaps the toughest call for a coach is weighing what is best for an individual against what is best for the team. Keeping a player on the roster just because I liked him personally, or even because of his great contributions to the team in the past, when I felt some one else could do more for the team would be a disservice to the team's goals.

There is only a half step difference between the champions and those who finish on the bottom. And much of that half step is mental.