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

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that’s a negative, but I think it’s a real positive.

People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.

I always ask myself the question, do you like to win, or do you hate to lose?

I loved it at LSU.

You wear your team out, and it’s hard to get them back.

It’s never OK to lose a game.

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.

I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.

I just want everybody to know that I’m opposed to an unauthorized biography on anybody.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team,

You have this beautiful hole, this beautiful opportunity to get a good score.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

Now do I get some time off? Do I get a bonus? Do I get to go on a cruise? But it’s not to keep trying to be the best. That’s not necessarily human nature.

One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things.

There won’t be any hearsay. There won’t be any expert analysis from anybody else. It will be the real deal.

I think you have to be more flexible to be a pro coach because once you pay the guy the money, whether he can backpedal the way you want him to or whatever, his style of play may not suit you, but you still are going to play him, and he is going to be a part of your team.