Quotes from Tom Herman

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.'

If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

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'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.

There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.

It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.

As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

Pressure comes from being unprepared.

I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

Greg Davis, Ron Randleman, David Bailiff, Paul Rhoads, Urban Meyer. I would be remiss if I didn't mention all of them as influences.

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.

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.

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.

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

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.

We have to learn how to manage expectations.