I don't think they necessarily do nearly as much haunting as people think. If you believe in the Bible, pretty much part of the deal that goes with it is ghosts.

Growing up my favorite coach was Billy Martin.

You get these Satanists types that don't believe in God. OK, so you realize you don't get Satan if you don't get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can't have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don't bring ghosts along with you.

At an unusually young age, I read 'Instant Replay' by Jerry Kramer, which talked a lot about the Green Bay Packers and Vince Lombardi. From there I was really more a fan of coaches than teams and players.

Tracked a raccoon one time in the snow. I was in the neighborhood and I was just curious where this raccoon lived. There's some fresh raccoon tracks. He'd been digging at somebody's garbage.

My wife is a great dancer. But I don't dance.

I've always been insecure about dancing. I was when I was in high school.

I'm not really good with technology.

I'm a big movie guy.

You're gaining more than you're losing in a small town.

I know that in Ames, Iowa, they fancy themselves being experts on the wind, but in Lubbock, Texas, we'll put our wind up against your wind in Iowa.

I think they need to expand the playoff system. I think the minimum should be 16 teams, but they could easily go with more than that... in other words, I want to see more football. Everybody from rec league softball on down can figure out how to put together a tournament and yet Division I can't.

I'm not a beat around the bush kind of guy.

If you aren't focused on what's right here in front of you, if you're daydreaming about what might be, you really aren't focused at all.

Nothing has done more to bring people of different races and different backgrounds together than athletics, certainly more than politicians have done. It's why the Greeks invented the Olympics.

I think the most important thing is confidence. A lot of people think they're confident, but if you think about it, most people aren't.

I've never had a dumb quarterback. I think if you're dumb, it's difficult to overcome.

Outstanding people in Iowa. Very down-to-earth people in Iowa. It was a great place to be.

I did go to the Alamo. Fascinating. A lot of details and nuances to the Alamo that are impressive.

If Texas and Kansas were countries they wouldn't be admitted to the World Trade Organization. Their policies are congruent with North Korea, Somalia, Turkestan, several other countries I can't pronounce and Micronesia.

I just go to work every day, spend hours in the film room, go to practice, go home and then do it all again the next day. I know I can be boring and I sound like a walking cliche but I really do just try to get our team ready to win a game on Saturday. That's pretty much my life.

I have a limited knowledge of the Internet, which is pretty clear, I don't even turn anything on other than my phone, when it gets stuck, my kids turn it on.

I read the entire Old Testament and New Testament.

I think that when you die, you continue to progress. You continue to grow in kind of an elevated state, but I don't think you sit there and wallow around and play the harp.

Whether it's a car or boat or motorcycle, it's a dangerous item, so you have to show a level of competence and get a license before you're allowed to operate something that's dangerous. Guns are dangerous but you don't have to get a license to operate guns.

I keep my guns on one part of the house totally locked up, and I keep the ammunition in another part of the house.

Obama is trying to protect Obamacare, and then obviously even in his own party a bunch of people are against it.

I've always thought that the - as far as regions of the country that people brag about, as far as top talent, the Inland Empire is awfully hard to beat.

When Washington State has been good, they've always had a connection to Southern California. You know, as far as visiting, that's different than recruiting. Recruiting is based on production and players, who you can get. You know, so, the nicest parts of Southern California aren't necessarily the best players.

I suspect Bill Snyder may be a sorcerer... he's one of the coaches that I admire most!

You go out and do the best you can and hope it works. You just try to improve.

I think there is a difference between being critical of plays and being critical of players and coaches.

I'd like to think I am a good coach but I've called bad plays. I've coached bad practices. I've made bad substitution choices.

There's a very public quality to coaching.

My fondest part of college was the interaction and everything I did with my fellow students.

Everybody says marriage is 'til death do you part - and I've been married 29 years - but a book is really 'til death do you part. Once you write it, it's out there.

When things were really rolling at Texas Tech, I was a part of something bigger than myself, bigger than football.

I figured I'd coach two or three years at the most and go back and be an attorney.

ESPN wants to scrutinize everyone, but if they're scrutinized, they run and hide.

I want to go to a place that's undervalued, where the potential is great, a place that wants to win, not just participate, in football.

Washington State is great. I'm completely happy at Washington State.

Atlanta might have snow and Macon might have good weather, and they're not really far apart. But there's a period of time in the year where the gnats get all over your face and they bite you. And the Macon crowd, it's funny, but they can sit there like nothing's happening and there can be gnats just biting the hell out of your face.

Outside of North America, best football? Is Samoa North America? Probably Samoa. I'd say Samoa. Germany's certainly up there.

You know, I'll tell who's really embraced football is Austria. Austria's really embraced football.

I think the days before cell phones, when it was dirt clod wars at construction sites, was a lot more wholesome and productive, to be perfectly honest.

Oh I've never liked candy corn, I think it's just awful - I think candy corn's awful.

My dad always watched wrestling and I seldom did.

Before I ever got into coaching, I got my law degree at Pepperdine.