Phenomenal people in Ames and throughout the state of Iowa.
— Tom Herman
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.
We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.
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.
When you play for the guy next to you, that's when you win championships.
We define our success internally.
To me, Jon is not a fun name. Thomas is not a fun name.
If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.
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.
I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.
Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.
I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.
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.
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 want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.
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.
It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.
You need explosive plays to win.
Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.
We have to learn how to manage expectations.
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.
I delete the Twitter app during the season.
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.'
I don't take anything too seriously.
Yards don't matter. The score is all that matters.
If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.
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.'
It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.
At the end of the day I like winning.
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.
You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.
Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.
We all want to be praised, right?
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 really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.
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.
Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.
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.
As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.
Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday, in my opinion.
Greg Davis, Ron Randleman, David Bailiff, Paul Rhoads, Urban Meyer. I would be remiss if I didn't mention all of them as influences.
It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.
You can't win championships without playing great defense.
Losing has to be awful. You can never get used to losing. That's one of the biggest downfalls to a lot of teams.
Twitter gives you a forum to let loose a little bit and have fun.
I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.
Belief that influences behavior influences results.
I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.
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.
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.
