Top 40 Tom Herman Quotes

I think there’s a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That’s what makes this great game so special.

I don’t think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.

I think coaches who don’t coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

You need explosive plays to win.

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.

Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.

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

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

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.

We all want to be praised, right?

We have to learn how to manage self-inflicted pressure.

I believe in routine.

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.’

My wife and I made a pact a long time ago we really don’t give gifts on holidays. We figure if it’s coming from the same bank account, why not take each other out for the day shopping or whatever.

Pressure comes from being unprepared.

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

When the President of the United States comes out and says, ‘If I had boys, I wouldn’t let them play tackle football,’ that’s a big punch to the gut for our sport.

We will build men of character.

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.

Belief that influences behavior influences results.

I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn’t a coach.

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.

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.

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

You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.

I’ve learned a lot about lockers.

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

I’ve always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.

Bankers don’t get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it’s a pretty cool job.

When you play for the guy next to you, that’s when you win championships.

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

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

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.

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

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.

We have to learn how to manage expectations.

It’s amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.

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

I’m an anti-standard operating procedure guy.