I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.
— Tom Herman
When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.
We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.
I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.
We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.
We will win championships.
That's mind-blowing to me that people would say that because you have nice things, you're soft. No, you're soft because your culture is soft.
I believe in routine.
I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff hired me and we go 11-3, and Barrick Nealy breaks all kinds of QB records. I grinded. I got my hands on every drill tape I could. I went to clinics. Every brain I could pick, I picked. And I wasn't too proud to ask the kids.
I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.
I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.
The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.
Pressure is self-inflicted.
The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.
There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.
I've learned a lot about lockers.
I don't believe in luck.
I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.
Our goal is, train harder and more physical than any program in the country.
Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.
We will build men of character.
Pressure comes from being unprepared.
For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: 'Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards... Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines... 37-yard field goal.'
Longhorn football has been - and always will be - a national power, winning and playing for national championships with great pride and passion, supported by an unbelievable fan base.
