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There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.
You can go bang a ball against a wall all you want, but how do you become a better team player? By playing other team sports.
I have nothing against the Razorbacks. In fact, they are one of my favorite teams because they play so hard for Houston Nutt.
Lasting goal achievement requires lots of time, hard work, sacrifice & dedication to a process that is maintained over years.
Only think of two things - the report of the pistol and the tape. When you hear one, run like hell until you break the other.
The team that can be consistent - for the most part all year - is going to be the team that is going to get into the playoffs.
Missing a game or getting a little bit of a bump up or getting a scolding once in a while puts everybody in their right place.
Depending on where you're at or the ownership you're working for, some of the college jobs may be better than some in the NFL.
It hurts me not to be able to communicate like I used to. I used to be pretty good at coming back, you know, quick one-liners.
When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.
Bo Schembechler will go down in history as the greatest football coach. He knows the game, he works hard. And he's not a crook.
One thing is sure: if you want running fast in competition, you must run fast in training. The problem is WHEN and HOW, not IF.
I love anything that has to do with expanding and becoming more than you can actually become. Going further than you did before.
A lot of times those things are shaped by coaches you work with, but other times they're shaped by coaches you admire and study.
When you defend and rebound and you trust the pass on the offensive end, you're going to have the ability to win a lot of games.
The thrills, the turmoil, the passion, the stunning surprises of that roller coaster ride in '72 caused our emotions to run wild
The thing about special teams - and I think football in general - is sometimes you eat the bear and sometimes the bear eats you.
If I stop pushing you, if I stop demanding of you, if I stop getting on you, then I probably don't think you have much to offer.
I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
Pass a lot, use some reverses and toss in a gadget play once in a while for the TV audience. None of that detracts from winning.
I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both sides of the ball.
In the end, everybody's life's different. Some things fit certain ways for people, and it's right, and maybe it isn't for others.
Stop blaming everybody and everything for what's going on. If you really believe that you deserve better, then you would have it.
I would expect an extremely high percentage of the chickens would test positive. Our poultry industry clients wouldn't like that.
Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.
You work hard and you drill daily all the habits that you need to win at basketball and you're going to create a winning culture.
Love the player for who they are, not for what they can do for you. Kids see through the coach whose only concern is for himself.
I love Pistol Pete and the pistols. Man, I just love to do that. I put on that Pistol Pete head and shoot those guns, that's fun.
The thing that got me to change was when my kids would come and tell me I was swearing on TV, so I knew I wanted to make a change.
There's a lot of pressure, and it's a long battle, to coach at the elite level. My wife and I didn't take a vacation for 10 years.
My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.
Before I retired, I had agreed to join the BBC to work as a pundit, with my contract beginning at the start of the 2014/15 season.
Competition is key to developing players. The only practice environment in which you truly develop a player is a competitive arena.
The only thing I don't think people don't understand about good leaders is that they're both good and lucky. A lot of it is timing.
I don't want to rush into retirement and regret it, because people say play as long as possible until the legs can't take any more.
Just being in the locker room as a young person growing up was something I've always enjoyed, without ever having it forced upon me.
You don't ever really wanna be let go from a job, but like anything that happens in life, you gotta make the best of your situation.
The Heisman is often a career award. Chris Weinke, Michael Vick, Eric Crouch and Drew Brees have all had a more than one great year.
I was almost as famous at Indiana for my television shows as I was my coaching. That's kind of embarrassing when you think about it.
People make a big thing about rankings, but being first or second in the world doesn't mean much if you don't actually win anything.
The goalie is like the guy on the minefield. He discovers the mines and destroys them. If you make a mistake, somebody gets blown up.
Success depends on how much you are willing to sacrifice, how much you are willing to alter your everyday life for a particular goal.
I still bother with runners I call hamburgers. They're never going to run any record times. But they can fulfill their own potential.
I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
A takeover or a player doing something wrong can take the focus away from what the most important thing is, which is to play football.
I've endured quite a bit of physical pain. My mom says that I got my first set of stitches when I was one-and-a-half. A cat got my eye.
After a truly good meal, an outstanding cigar is still the most satisfying after-dinner activity that doesn't involve two human beings.
There's a lot of different ways to be successful in college basketball. Most of it stems from talent and having the ability to recruit.
You don't tell someone who's mentally ill or struggling, who's having a low time in their lives, to harden up, because it doesn't work.
The fans keep me energized, and being surrounded by such a talented and dynamic 'GameDay' crew is the best medicine for this old coach.