Consistency is a beautiful word.
— Bret Bielema
If I got into TV, I'd want to be the best.
As a young kid, you only know what you know.
As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.
Don't confuse confidence with cockiness. I really believe that.
There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.
If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.
I think when a man shows his true emotions, it's a really good indicator off what he is.
I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.
Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.
You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they're walking into a dream situation. You don't want money to ever be a factor.
The Big Ten is brand strong.
We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we get our guys better at the language and culture we want in our program.
Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.
If you want to recruit somebody of high character and value, somebody you can trust to not only watch your house, but your children, someone you can count on to share carries of 1,000 yards each rather than trying to get 1,800 for one, now you're going to build something that matters.
I'm a momma's boy at heart.
You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.
There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.
I don't mind Twitter. But when a kid makes a decision based on how many Twitter followers he gets, that's when I'm about ready to tap out.
I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.
We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.
I love to compete - don't get me wrong.
I was single for so long, for 42 years.
I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.
I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.
I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that's all we're measured upon.
I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.
There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.
The more you press, the more you try to make something more than it needs to be, you probably end up misfiring.
The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.
Any time you see something out there floating around that's not really reality, it's better to just cease it and stop it.
I have cooked for a recruit. The biggest recruit of my life: my wife.
I grew up watching my mom cook.
You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.
The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.
A lot of times games are lost rather than won.
I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.
Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.
When you get a little older you get a little wiser.
If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.
If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.
Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.
I'm not afraid to say what I feel.
My players mean the world to me.
Arkansas is very intriguing to me because it is the only show in the state. Obviously, without a professional team and to have the only Division I football team playing at the level that it's at, it kind of draws unified support throughout the whole state. When you've got that, it's something special.
I'm not a comedian.
You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.
We have a social media background screening that you've got to go through and if you have a social media nickname or something on your Twitter account that makes me sick, I'm not going to recruit you.
I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.
I've turned down players based on their Twitter handles. I've turned down players based on Twitter pictures.
