I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.
Tom Herman
You need explosive plays to win.
I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.
Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.
Greg Davis, Ron Randleman, David Bailiff, Paul Rhoads, Urban Meyer. I would be remiss if I didn't mention all of them as influences.
My wife and I made a pact a long time ago we really don't give gifts on holidays. We figure if it's coming from the same bank account, why not take each other out for the day shopping or whatever.
How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.
I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game - nor will they ever, I hope - has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, 'We out-finessed everybody.'
It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.
Longhorn football has been - and always will be - a national power, winning and playing for national championships with great pride and passion, supported by an unbelievable fan base.
Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.
We changed the University of Houston in 23 short months more than anybody thought was possible. Not just from a wins and losses standpoint but from an infrastructure standpoint as well.
Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.
Pressure comes from being unprepared.
I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'
Pressure is self-inflicted.
I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.
It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.
I'm a guy who was born in Cincinnati and whose entire family except for my mother still lives in Cincinnati - my grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, you name it.
Belief that influences behavior influences results.
I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff hired me and we go 11-3, and Barrick Nealy breaks all kinds of QB records. I grinded. I got my hands on every drill tape I could. I went to clinics. Every brain I could pick, I picked. And I wasn't too proud to ask the kids.
It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.
When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.
I sleep so easy knowing that I never once lied to a player, never once lied to a recruit, and never once lied to any coaches or administration. Those are the people I care about.
Twitter gives you a forum to let loose a little bit and have fun.
I don't believe in luck.
I believe in routine.
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: 'Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards... Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines... 37-yard field goal.'
I've learned a lot about lockers.
That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.
For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.
There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.
We will win championships.
The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.
We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.
We will build men of character.
The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.
We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.
Our goal is, train harder and more physical than any program in the country.
I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.
I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.
I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.
I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.
We all want to be praised, right?
Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it's a pretty cool job.
Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.
I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.
You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.
If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.
I think most athletes want to be told when they make a mistake. They don't want to be coddled. They can deal with criticism, especially when it's valid.
