Bret Bielema

“In this league you might have a quarterback within your division that you're worried about running all over the place, the next week it's a running back, so to be able to have multiple answers for every situation is probably a benefit for everybody.”

“If my girl ends up playing football, we probably got a lot of problems. I'll encourage her to do whatever, but playing football ain't one of them.”

“You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she's traditionally lived in the South.”

“The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.”

“Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.”

“I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don't want to be like the SEC - in any way, shape or form.”

“I love to compete - don't get me wrong.”

“Anytime you're a defensive player and your eyes aren't on your key, you're going to have an issue.”

“I thought as a young coach, there were times when my head coach might have prohibited me from moving forward. I always said if I am ever in that position, I'll do anything I can to make our guys move forward.”

“We have a social media background screening that you've got to go through and if you have a social media nickname or something on your Twitter account that makes me sick, I'm not going to recruit you.”

“My players mean the world to me.”

“You can't tap somebody in the helmet and say, 'Go be physical.' If you're not physical, you can't play physical, and that's a big part of what we believe in.”

“I think when a man shows his true emotions, it's a really good indicator off what he is.”

“I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs - we had way more pigs than people.”

“A lot of times games are lost rather than won.”

“There's a lot of enthusiasm and a lot of great fans everywhere you go in college football.”

“In the Big Ten, we disliked the SEC because of the success they had.”

“There's so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.”

“If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.”

“The greatest thing about a coaching position is this: You just worry about the day in front of you.”