Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.

The No. 1 job is to help a player reach their highest potential, and that's not possible without being able to relate with them. That's been helpful, and as far as my knowledge base is concerned, that stems from being around great coaches willing to share.

What's so amazing in today's society is people look up to football players. And as a football player, you have a platform. And it's so much more important than any touchdown or trophy or anything you could win with football. Its taking that platform and be able to influence people.

At fullback you have a little bit more defensive responsibility. You have to help out with your center backs a little bit more. As a wing back, you can be a little bit more aggressive with getting forward.

After winning, most teams become individuals; most teams become complacent.

I would like to be the kind of coach who gets text messages and phone calls from players years after I coach them, because we had something that is bigger than just being on the floor.

Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.

Already a congressman, to a mentor I hope sometime you run across something you think I can do well 24 hours per day.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

We must all hang together, or assuredly we will all hang separately.

The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.

If you are on social media, and you are not learning, not laughing, not being inspired or not networking, then you are using it wrong.