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

If you are going to be a successful duck hunter, you must go where the ducks are.

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

I didn’t have a thing to do with picking a coach, and didn’t want to. But I didn’t think they’d pick one I didn’t like.

Little things make the difference. Everyone is well prepared in the big things, but only the winners perfect the little things.

Recruiting is the one thing I hate. I won’t do it unless my coaches tell me I’ve just got to. The whole process is kind of undignified for me and the young man.

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

Don’t give up. Reach down inside of you and you’ll find something left.

I ain’t never been nothin but a winner.

I know what it takes to win. If I can sell them on what it takes to win, then we are not going to lose too many football games.

When you play defense you have to storm the fort or play cover – you can’t do both.

Set goals – high goals for you and your organization. When your organization has a goal to shoot for, you create teamwork, people working for a common good.

Don’t worry about making friends; don’t worry about making enemies. Worry about winning, because if you win, your enemies can’t hurt you, and if you lose, your friends can’t stand you.

You take those little rascals, talk to them good, pat them on the back, let them think they are good, and they will go out and beat the biguns.

Show class, have pride, and display character. If you do, winning takes care of itself.

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

All I know is, I don’t want to stop coaching, and I don’t want to stop winning, so we’re gonna break the record unless I die.

Do more than believe: practice.

When you have people together who believe in something very strongly – whether it’s religion or politics or unions – things happen.

Truth can never be told so as to be understood and not be believed.

Cruelty is a terrible thing. I believe it is the worst human sin.

I believe in me more than anything in this world.

I believe in my prayers.

My doctor told me I would never walk again. My mother told me I would. I believed my mother.

It is my deepest belief that only by giving our lives do we find life.