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As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

I would rather sleep only five hours and wake up at 5 or 5:30 a.m. and be in control of my time than to sleep later and spend the entire day controlled by time.

There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.

My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.

This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.

Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.

I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.

You measure a player from the head up.

I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.

I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

I wouldn't give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.

I love fools' experiments. I am always making them.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

When you make a mistake or get ridiculed or rejected, look at mistakes as learning experiences, and ridicule as ignorance. Look at rejection as part of one performance, not as a turn down of the performer.

There is no mat space for malcontents or dissenters.

Even if you have a bad game, you have to swallow your pride and sign. It takes a little time, but it makes the kids happy. And it makes you feel good, too.

Every kid needs a mentor. Everybody needs a mentor.