“George Perles at Michigan State was the first coach that gave me responsibility as far as being a coordinator. I learned a lot from that experience.”

One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.

I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.

We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.

Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.

Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.

I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.

There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.