You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you?
You wear your team out, and it's hard to get them back.
If you're not loyal to your team, you can get by for a while, but eventually you will need to rely on their loyalty to you, and it just won't be there.
You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
It's always really challenging trying to go from player to player/coach. You have a kind of friendship basis of relationship with all of your teammates, and now you go to this power position where you have to make decisions that might hurt people's feelings.
The important thing is that your teammates have to know you're pulling for them and you really want them to be successful.
If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
When you have a lot of confidence and you feel like nobody can beat you, it's game over for everyone else.
You can't win unless you have good people with great attitude. They are the ones who won the games. I didn't win any games. You never saw a coach make a tackle anywhere. My philosophy was to get the best players and then try to do something new with them.