Quotes from Bret Bielema

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that's all we're measured upon.

There was a point in time in Wisconsin football when people used to just go to watch the band.

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.

I've never taken a cooking class. I've never gone to a cooking show. I've never read a recipe in my life.

We have a social media background screening that you've got to go through and if you have a social media nickname or something on your Twitter account that makes me sick, I'm not going to recruit you.

I have cooked for a recruit. The biggest recruit of my life: my wife.

In this league you might have a quarterback within your division that you're worried about running all over the place, the next week it's a running back, so to be able to have multiple answers for every situation is probably a benefit for everybody.

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

We're not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

I think when a man shows his true emotions, it's a really good indicator off what he is.

If you want to recruit somebody of high character and value, somebody you can trust to not only watch your house, but your children, someone you can count on to share carries of 1,000 yards each rather than trying to get 1,800 for one, now you're going to build something that matters.

We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it 'Hogonese.' They are classes year-round where we get our guys better at the language and culture we want in our program.

As a young kid, you only know what you know.

We at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC ... in any way, shape or form.

The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.

I'm a momma's boy at heart.

Arkansas is very intriguing to me because it is the only show in the state. Obviously, without a professional team and to have the only Division I football team playing at the level that it's at, it kind of draws unified support throughout the whole state. When you've got that, it's something special.

Obviously when you come into competition with other schools and you become aware of anything that concerns you, you have an obligation to say something.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

We've got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.