Tom Herman

“Football is a violent, violent sport, and you have to practice that way in order to get at elite levels on Saturday, in my opinion.”

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

“It's unfortunate people can twist and turn things to fit whatever narrative they'd like it to fit.”

“As a coach, you never take your foot of the gas when it comes to enforcement of your culture.”

“It's amazing how much better coaches we become when you have really good players.”

“If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.”

“One of the neatest things I saw with the team at Ohio State - and we preach about it all the time as coaches - is that the team genuinely played for the happiness, success and rings on the finger for the guy next to them.”

“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.”

“You should want to be the best at whatever your chosen field is.”

“I've always been very intimately involved in the playcalling on game day.”

“I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.”

“I tell our team all the time, nobody once in the history of this great game - nor will they ever, I hope - has stood at a championship stage or podium holding a championship trophy and say, 'We out-finessed everybody.'”

“We have to learn how to manage expectations.”

“I don't think you can ask anybody in any walk of life to do anything at a championship level without doing it over and over and over and over and over again in preparation.”