There's No Substitute For Guts.

If A Man Is A Quitter, I'd Rather Find Out In Practice Than In A Game. I Ask For All A Player Has So I'll Know Later What I Can Expect.

I Have Always Tried To Teach My Players To Be Fighters. When I Say That, I Don't Mean Put Up Your Dukes And Get In A Fistfight Over Something. I'm Talking About Facing Adversity In Your Life. There Is Not A Person Alive Who Isn't Going To Have Some Awfully Bad Days In Their Lives. I Tell My Players That What I Mean By Fighting Is When Your House Burns Down, And Your Wife Runs Off With The Drummer, And You've Lost Your Job And All The Odds Are Against You. What Are You Going To Do? Most People Just Lay Down And Quit. Well, I Want My People To Fight Back.

My Approach To The Game Has Been The Same At All The Places I've Been. Vanilla. The Sure Way. That Means, First Of All, To Win Physically. If You Got Eleven On A Field, And They Beat The Other Eleven Physically, They'll Win. They Will Start Forcing Mistakes. They'll Win In The Fourth Quarter.

If You Don't Have Discipline, You Can't Have A Successful Program.

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.