Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.
As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.
I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
Don't tell me how rocky the sea is, just bring the ship in.
You've got to have great athletes to win, I don't care who the coach is. You can't win without good athletes but you can lose with them. This is where coaching makes the difference.
I've never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
Don't ever ask a player to do something he doesn't have the ability to do. He'll just question your ability as a coach, not his as an athlete.
My athletes always follow my advice... unless it conflicts with what that they want to do.