“I’m interested to see where a combination of faith and science will take me.”

I think the most important thing I thought is, I thought about recruiting and what we need in recruiting.

God doesn’t take things away to be cruel. He takes things away to make room for other things. He takes things away to lighten us. He takes things away so we can fly.

I have a love-hate relationship with losing. I hate how it makes me feel, which is basically sick. But I love what it brings out.

When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don’t take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, ‘No one can outwork you,’

Responsibility equals accountability equals ownership. And a sense of ownership is the most powerful weapon a team or organization can have.

I won 1,098 games, and eight national championships, and coached in four different decades. But what I see are not the numbers. I see their faces.

Put the Team Before Yourself.

I want to go to practice. I want to be in the huddles. That’s me.

The best way to handle responsibility is to break it down into smaller parts. Take care of one small thing at a time.

Rebounding wins championships, you need to emphasize it and work with kids on it.

If I’m not leading by example, then I’m not doing the right thing. And I want to always do the right thing.

I hate to sound this way but, ‘Why me? Why me with dementia?’

Loyalty is not unilateral. You have to give it to receive it.

I’ve got a great staff and great support system, and I’m going to stick my neck out and do what I always do.

Combine practice with belief.

My parents taught me a long time ago that you win in life with people, and that’s important, because if you hang with winners, you stand a great chance of being a winner.

Pray to god someone prays for me.

It is my belief that politicians should not be stepping into the realm of history. Rather, politicians should be taking a future-oriented perspective.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not.

Relationships come together with commitment, patience, and belief in each other. It’s a journey, make it beautiful.

I walk with Jesus and where we are going isn’t important it’s who I’m with.

You’ll keep believing in toxic love and relationships until that one person comes and challenge all your beliefs.

Being tolerant does not mean that I share another one’s belief. But it does mean that I acknowledge another one’s right to believe, and obey, his own conscience.