Tom Herman Quotes

Tom Herman

Profession : Coach

Birth : June 2, 1975

The price of championships will never change. It's been set long before me. It will be the same long after me. That price is hard work, sweat, blood, tears, fatigue and exhaustion and doing so much more than what is required of you.

Tom Herman

We like to think that we practice so hard that the games are easy.

Tom Herman

We will graduate our players, and we will do it all with integrity and with class.

Tom Herman

Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

Tom Herman

When you play for the guy next to you, that's when you win championships.

Tom Herman

I've never met a successful person in any walk of life - from Michael Dell to Peyton Manning to Barack Obama - that when you ask that person, 'Hey, how did you get here, and what was your road like?' They say, 'You know what? It was really easy. I slept in all the time, turned my papers in late, didn't pay attention to people and my surroundings.'

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.

Tom Herman

I was at Texas State in 2005. I'd never coached quarterbacks and never called plays a day in my life. David Bailiff hired me and we go 11-3, and Barrick Nealy breaks all kinds of QB records. I grinded. I got my hands on every drill tape I could. I went to clinics. Every brain I could pick, I picked. And I wasn't too proud to ask the kids.

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Longhorn football has been - and always will be - a national power, winning and playing for national championships with great pride and passion, supported by an unbelievable fan base.

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I believe in routine.

Tom Herman

I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: 'Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards... Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines... 37-yard field goal.'

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I've learned a lot about lockers.

Tom Herman

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.

Tom Herman

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

Tom Herman

There are a lot of three and four-star guys undervalued because of intangibles.

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We will win championships.

Tom Herman

Pressure comes from being unprepared.

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The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.

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We will build men of character.

Tom Herman

Pressure is self-inflicted.

Tom Herman