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

I don't believe in team motivation. I believe in getting a team prepared so it knows it will have the necessary confidence when it steps on a field and be prepared to play a good game.

I'd rather have a second-best decision diligently pursued than a first-best decision lackadaisically pursued.

The job of a football coach is to make men do what they don't want to do, in order to achieve what they've always wanted to be.

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.

Right after the game, say as little as possible.

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.