Don't talk too much. Don't pop off. Don't talk after the game until you cool off..

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 ta….

I ain't won but one. My team won the rest in spite of me..

I'm no genius, but I'm a damn good football coach..

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..

I can remember loving to recruit. I knew I was going to do my best. But traveling and recruiting doesn't appeal to me any more. It's not as much fun ….

I always want my players to show class, knock'em down, pat on the back, and run back to the huddle..

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running..

Back 12 years ago, when Dr. Mathews was president here, we had a plan that when I got ready to quit, we'd bring a certain guy in and he'd take over t….

There's a lot of blood, sweat, and guts between dreams and success..

I told them my system was based on the "ant plan," that I'd gotten the idea watching a colony of ants in Africa during the war. A whole bunch of ants….

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a father….

You must learn how to hold a team together. You must lift some men up, calm others down, until finally they've got one heartbeat. Then you've got you….

I'd like for people to remember me as a winner, because I ain't never been nothin but a winner..

I'm no innovator. If anything I'm a stealer, or borrower. I've stolen or borrowed from more people than you can shake a stick at..

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning..

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way….

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find som….

I hope to get out before they start football next year..

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments..

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..