Hard work pays off.

I'm a momma's boy at heart.

Consistency is a beautiful word.

I love to compete - don't get me wrong.

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

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

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

Don't confuse confidence with cockiness. I really believe that.

In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.

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

My wife loves to watch 'Criminal Minds' and 'CSI' and all those shows.

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

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

Would you rather have an overachieving 3-Star, or an underachieving 5-Star?

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.

You can't skip a step and assume you're going to get to where you want to be.

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

I'd never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.

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

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.

There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.

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

I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.

Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.

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.

There's a simple thing we always say: if you always tell the truth, you will never have to remember what you said.

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

You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.

Any time you see something out there floating around that's not really reality, it's better to just cease it and stop it.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college - really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

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.

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 don't mind Twitter. But when a kid makes a decision based on how many Twitter followers he gets, that's when I'm about ready to tap out.

I have scars on my knee from an ACL surgery. I have a scar on my ankle from ankle surgery. I have a scar on my left hand from hand surgery.

As much as I disliked it, my brothers used to whoop me every day, but I have a feeling that I'm probably a stronger man today because of it.

You can take Saban's record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can't compare.

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.

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.

You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.

Everyone should have a goal in mind. I don't care what you do for a living. But you also need to live your life a little bit. Look around, and see what's there. Find some fun.

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.

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.

You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they're walking into a dream situation. You don't want money to ever be a factor.

I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.

One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you've really got to make sure you're not burying anybody at a position.

It's hard to train that in practice time. You can make calls, you can make adjustments, but just that pressure, 'This is what it is, this is reality, I need to concentrate on every play,' that's what we've got to get through.

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.

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