You can't have a great university without a great library.
Sport is a product of human culture. America seems to need football at this state of our social development. When you get ninety million people watching a single game on television, it ... shows you that people need something to identify with.
Success is best measured by the achiever.
To teach an academic subject is certainly not easy, but compared to coaching, it is. We can say two plus two is four to every kid and be sure that we are right. But in coaching, we have to literally get to the soul of the people we are dealing with.
I had a great bunch of kids. They all hung with us. The coaching staff hung with us. And we played tough every game. If you've got kids that want to play and react to you, it's fun. I'm having a good time.
You're only as happy as your least happy child.
There's never been a greater game than football.
In hindsight, I wish I had done more.
I stayed on the track I wanted to stay on. I don’t think I deviated from what I’m all about and what I thought was important. Whether you want to call that a legacy, or whatever you want to call it.
You need to play with supreme confidence, or else you'll lose again, and then losing becomes a habit.
SMU: 'It's unbelievable to think that kind of corruption came right from the top of the power structure. The NCAA did what it had to do' in canceling SMU's 1988 football season.
Everybody likes to win. It sure beats the devil out of losing.
Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.
When a kid plays football before he attends a class, something is wrong.
I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited.
There has to be some self-denial.
Some things I thought were important for a young man to know.
My father said about money: 'You have to have some. But you don't have to have all of it. Just be honest with yourself.'
All coaches are thinking men, or else they wouldn't survive.
The kids that were the victims ... I think we all ought to say a prayer for them.
