I've learned a lot about lockers.

Tom Herman

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

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I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

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I delete the Twitter app during the season.

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The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

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We all want to be praised, right?

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You can't win championships without playing great defense.

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To me, Jon is not a fun name. Thomas is not a fun name.

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You need explosive plays to win.

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The price of championships will never change. It's been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.

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Pressure comes from being unprepared.

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It's the human condition. We gravitate to what's easy, things that are comfortable, convenient, pain-free, self-serving.

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

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I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff hired me and we go 11-3, and Barrick Nealy breaks all kinds of QB records. I grinded. I got my hands on every drill tape I could. I went to clinics. Every brain I could pick, I picked. And I wasn't too proud to ask the kids.

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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.

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I don't believe in luck.

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I believe in routine.

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I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: 'Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards... Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines... 37-yard field goal.'

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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.

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

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There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.

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