Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

If you sit back & spend too much time feeling good about what you did in the past, you're going to come up short next time

Mental Toughness is doing the right thing for the team when it's not the best thing for you.

For a team to accomplish their goal, everybody’s got to give up a little bit of their individuality.

There are no shortcuts to building a team each season. You build the foundation brick by brick.

To live in the past is to die in the present.

I don't Twitter, I don't MyFace, I don't Yearbook...

You get the job done or you don't.

My personal coaching philosophy, my mentality, has always been to make things as difficult as possible for players in practice, however bad we can make them, I make them.

The less versatile you are, the better you have to be at what you do well.

You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.

We're just two lost souls Swimming in a fish bowl, Year after year, Running over the same old ground. What have we found? The same old fears. Wish you were here.

If you can't create, you destroy.

Healthy striving is self-focused: "How can I improve?" Perfectionism is other-focused: "What will they think?"

I'm totally anti-commercialism.

When you hit a wall find ways to go under and over, but never give up.

[Pope] Francis ought to be taken at his word when he says, as he has often done, that he is a son of the Church who believes and teaches what the Catholic Church believes and teaches.

You shouldn't be greedy. You should feel good about yourself and not be greedy of what other people have.

When I started out, there were a lot of things I knew I couldn't do, and a lot of things I only found out I couldn't do by going and doing it. And no-one was watching, and nobody cared.

The union of opposites, in so far as they are really complementary, always results in the most perfect harmony; and the seemingly incongruous is often the most natural.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.