I've got the opportunity to manage a big football club, a seriously big football club, and I wasn't going to turn that down.
I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
I was just thankful to be a student manager, and if that led to a high school coaching job or maybe I could stick at a small Division I school as an assistant, that would have been a success for me.
When I finish playing, I think I'd like to coach college baseball.
I'm thankful that my career at Oklahoma was marked with consistent leadership in president David Boren and director of athletics Joe Castiglione.
You got to worry about getting good damn coaches.
I received a letter from the Reich Ministry of Sports. They want me to split from Joe Jacobs, my manager since 1928.... I really need Joe Jacobs. I owe all my success in America to him.
Sports and management are not as diverse as people think.
I am delighted that Jason Gardener will be taking over from me as President of U.K. Athletics. With his competitive background in the sport as an Olympic champion coupled with his engaging personality and his experience as a board member of U.K. Athletics, he possesses all the qualities required to be a successful president.
Running a football team is no different than running any other kind of organization.
You have great athletic directors, you let them run it; you keep yourself informed, but I'm not the athletic director. I'm the president of the university.
If the game is run properly as a professional game, you do not need 57 old farts running rugby.
When I was in college, I was a landscaper. Other than that, coaching has been my life and my job. A lot of people like coaching college, but I would never do it again. There are too many NCAA bylaws, rules and politics.
Perhaps I'll work as a director of football. I don't know.
I became a head football coach when I was 27 years old at Miami of Ohio.
I don't see myself coaching gymnastics. I see myself involved in the sport in the future but involved in other things as well.
I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.
I said that once I stopped playing, when that time comes, I wanted to still be around sports.
