Bob Stoops Quotes

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

Penalties are part of the game.

Why have a rule if you're not going to enforce it?

People make mistakes - they say things they shouldn't have or didn't necessarily mean. But I strongly believe in consequences. If there are none, someone might feel like they've gotten away with something, or that what they said couldn't have been that bad.

Professional managers, coaches, and players have a right to question an umpire's decision if they do it in a professional manner. When they become personal, profane, or violent, they have crossed the line and must be dealt with accordingly.

It's time for these people to have accountability for what is being done.

We need, first of all, for there to be accountability, for there to be somebody who is responsible for enforcing standards and holding people's feet to the fire.

We have disciplinary authority and will use it when appropriate.

Having rules means that sometimes people break them, and that means punishment.

If you're going to break the rules, you have to live with the consequences.

I do think everybody pays their dues in Gilead, whether you're the most high-up commander or not. Everybody has to face the consequences of their actions.

I do not want to gain a reputation for lacking discipline because I always look to play within the laws.

I'm all about penalizing. I've got no issue with penalizing people who are taking over their allotted time.

A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks or does is without consequences.

You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.

I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

People don't like the idea of consequences. They want to be able to live their life freely and do what they want to do without any consequences. And we know that's just not the way life is.

Don't do anything in practice that you wouldn't do in the game.

Sooner or later everyone sits down to a banquet of consequences.

When I was in high school, my parents had this power over me - if I ever lied or got caught doing something that I shouldn't be doing, then I would no longer be able to go to L.A. and continue to pursue the acting thing.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

History is full of examples of people who clamp down after they began to enjoy too much freedom. Freedom can lead to instability, anarchy, and confusion. So there can be a moral counter-revolution.

Without discipline, there's no life at all.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

I think people have to be more aware of what the repercussions are of their actions.