Quotes from Tom Herman

I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.

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.

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.

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.

The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.

Once you coach football in Texas, you fall in love with it.

The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

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.

To me, Jon is not a fun name. Thomas is not a fun name.

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.

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.

Twitter gives you a forum to let loose a little bit and have fun.

Recruiting is all about relationships, it's not really about the facilities or the schools involved.

It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.

Yards don't matter. The score is all that matters.

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.'

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.

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.'

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.

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.