“Losing doesn’t make me want to quit.  It makes me want to fight that much harder.”

 

“There’s a lot of blood, sweat and guts between dreams and success.”

 

“I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.”

 

“When you make a mistake, there are only three things you should ever do about it: 1. Admit it   2. Learn from it.  3. Don’t repeat it.”

 

“Never quit.  It is the easiest cop-out in the world.  Set a goal and don’t quit until you attain it.  When you do attain it, set another goal, and don’t quit until you reach it. Never quit.”

 

“In a crisis, don’t hide behind anything or anybody.  They are going to find you anyway.” 

 

“How many people watch you give a final exam?  Well, I have 50,000 watch me give mine – every Saturday!”  

 

“I’ll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we’ll be champions.                                                                                                                                            

 

“There’s no substitute for guts.”

 

“In life, you’ll have your back up against the wall many times.  You might as well get used to it.”

 

“If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.”

 

“If you want to walk the heavenly streets of gold, you gotta know the password, ‘Roll, tide, roll!”

 

“Put everything you’ve got into anything you do.”

 

“Favorite play:  “It is the one where the player pitches the ball back to the official after scoring a touchdown.”

 

“Don’t talk too much or too soon”

 

“If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quite, you’ll be a winner.  The price of victory is high, but so are the rewards.”

 

Three Rules of Coaching:  “Surround yourself with people who can’t live without football.  Recognize winners.  They come in all forms.  Have a plan for everything.”

 

“Winning isn’t everything, but it beats anything that comes in second.”

 

“It’s kind of hard to rally around a math class.”

 

“Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.”

 

“Offense sells tickets.  Defense wins games.”

 

“A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.”

 

“You must learn how to hold a team together.  You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they’ve got one heartbeat.  Then you’ve got yourself a team.”

 

“Some coaches have accused me of being too defense-minded. But most of those who said that have wound up being athletic directors.”

 

“Don’t give up at half-time.  Concentrate on winning the second half.”

 

“You’re still going to win with preparation and dedication and plain old desire.  If you don’t have desire, you won’t be dedicated enough to prepare properly.”

 

“It’s not the will to win, but the will to prepare to win that makes the difference.”

 

“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, but the size of the fight in the dog.”

 

“No coach has ever won a game by what he knows; it’s what his players know that counts.”

 

“You have to be willing to out-condition your opponents.”

 

“When you win, there’s glory enough for everybody.  When you lose, there’s glory for none.”

 

“You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him to a heavy load.”

 

“I ain’t  never been nothin’ but a winner.”

 

“If you believe in yourself and have dedication and pride – and never quit, you’ll be a winner.  The price of victory is high but so are rewards.”

 

“I have tried to teach them to show class, to have pride and to display character.  I think football and winning games takes care of itself if you do that.”