To me the footballs are approved by the league and game officials pregame and we play with what's out there. That's the only way that I have ever thought about that.

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

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling

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.

It's better to burn out than to fade away.

Knowledge makes us stronger, but power is not supersede by it (knowledge). Vulnerable is power without knowledge. Impracticable is knowledge without power

You don't become happy by pursuing happiness. You become happy by living a life that means something.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

The best apology against false accusers is silence.

Don't make anyone ask for love.

Barron and Paul...rely on 'specialists' at the State and Defense Departments...Elsewhere in the media, similiar figures are bandied about, with equal credibility.

Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there.

You know a guy a longtime, and I mean really know him, you don't get used to the idea that he's dead just overnight.

The Australian tour was good for us; it was ideal preparation for us.