Life is about being a versatile athlete and training in all realms of life.
Let me explain my job very simply: My job is to line up five, seven, 10 yards in front of a man and run into him at full speed.
To come into camp and have my defensive coordinator say you won’t be touched, I feel like a kid all over again.
The journeythe journey, I promise you, is the greatest thing ever. The destination always takes care of itself.
Some people take certain things and they try to forget what that pain felt like. I don’t. I take that same pain and I chase it every time I walk in a weight room.
Only a fool trips on what’s behind them.
Man doesn’t dictate what you do or how you do it. If you believe in God, believe in God; have your faith in him. That’s where my faith lies.
You got to be willing to walk in a storm. That’s what I tell people all the time.
You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91.
A leader puts himself last then he sticks out.
I’ve got kids that are always watching and I taught them to always finish something you started.
There’s some things you can cover up. And there’s some things you can’t.
Don’t walk through life just playing football. Don’t walk through life just being an athlete. Athletics will fade. Character and integrity and really making an impact on someone’s life, that’s the ultimate vision, that’s the ultimate goal – bottom line.
I love passion. I love for a coach to be passionate.
My game is me. I didn’t try to pattern my game after nobody.
Who knows what the future holds? It’s all on parenting, one way or another. I don’t care what level it is, it comes back to people learning how to deal with people.
Parents may be always working, parents may be in and out. When you’re dropping them off with coaches, the first thing kids should be coming back and saying is, ‘Mom, guess what I learned today? Guess what coach taught me today?’
I don’t want to be liked. I want to be respected. Because if you like me you can throw me away too quick. If you respect me, you may not even like what I was wearing, but you’ll say, “I respect that.”
Somebody has to give a wakeup call to our coaching world to ask them real questions and show them that if you have kids, then you know there is no way you can talk to somebody else like that, because that’s somebody’s child.
I have so much respect for people that are my elders. You aren’t going to hear me cursing around people that are 60 and 70 years old.