We define our success internally.
As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.
I delete the Twitter app during the season.
When you play for the guy next to you, that's when you win championships.
One of the neatest things I saw with the team at Ohio State - and we preach about it all the time as coaches - is that the team genuinely played for the happiness, success and rings on the finger for the guy next to them.
I've seen really, really talented teams that don't care about each other and are average, maybe above average is about as good as you're going to get.
Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.
We have to learn how to manage expectations.
We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.
The price of championships will never change. It's been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.
Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.
I do catch NFL games every now and again, and it doesn't remind me of anything that I watch when breaking down opponents or watching college games on TV. It's completely different.
It's really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.
Phenomenal people in Ames and throughout the state of Iowa.
