A Celebration of All that is Hawkeye

“I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.”

“Sports is such a great vehicle to promote and bring recognition to not only the whole university, but the state.”

“In football, like in life, you must learn to play within the rules of the game.”

“We'll take what the other team gives us. We'll scratch where it itches.”

“You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.”

“I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.”

“If you stay with this game long enough, the worm is bound to turn.”

"All the hay is in the barn as far as I'm concerned come game time."

"It's a lot easier to turn a program around with a chucker and a catcher than with big bulls up front."

“I instructed Chuck to call a time out with six second to go. Chuck called it with two seconds left. I nearly had a heart attack.”

"Next year we'll have Nebraska right where we want 'em. Off our schedule."

"I'm a salesman. I think 95 percent of coaching is selling, because you're working with people."

“Where I come from it's called selling the sizzle before the steak."

"You've got to dance with the one who brung you."

“I don't want our guys to think it's a matter of life and death. I'd hate to think that the game has reached that point.”

"I believe in treating a player like a king until he shows me he's a bum."

“It's been fun to get the reaction of visiting coaches to the color of their locker room. Most don't notice it, but those that do are in trouble. . . . When I talk to an opposing coach before a game and he mentions the pink walls, I know I've got him. I can't recall a coach who has stirred up a fuss about the color and then beat us.”

“The thing I'm most proud of here at Iowa is putting the ANF on our headgear.”

“We had had one of the biggest economic droughts that the midlands had ever seen, and the farmers needed help. It didn't cost anything much to put the decals on the helmets, but it did a lot of good in directing publicity to the problem. There were stories in many national newspapers and sports magazines.”

“He was the one that didn't give us a touchdown... He didn't officiate for us again.”

“I've felt sorry for young people who didn't have an opportunity to play football, because I know what the game can offer.”

“Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.”

“You can't control people. You must understand them. You have to know where they're coming from, their beliefs and values, what turns them off, what they're against.”