I don’t think you ever silence critics. They’ll be critics in the morning. That’s part of the deal.

Most players don’t mind drug testing once they realize they don’t have to study for it.

Everywhere I went, he knew the coaches, their wives and their children's names. He sent anniversary and birthday cards on Cowboys stationery. He turned most into Cowboys fans.

Rod has been a great defensive lineman for us, in a line of some of the best to ever play at the University of Texas, ... It's very fitting for him to be a semifinalist of this award; it's even more fitting that it's in Houston.

Right there I told the defense, 'You stop this play and we're going to win the national championship.

The worst thing for a coach is to try to convince him to come back. After all he's meant to this university, how ungracious of us to be to force him to make a selfish decision.

Our bunch can score fast. That's what we've got to continue to do. We should have scored a lot more today.

I used to really worry about it. I used to fight it, and it used to make me mad and now I understand sometimes when you win one, you get too much credit and therefore when you lose one, you get too much criticism. I understand we're probably OK until next Saturday ... and then it probably will be I just can't win any one of them again, but that's all right.

At times we didn't even play that good. But we played hard, and we played with confidence.

Our friendship has come out of respect, ... Gary's honest, and his program goes by the rules. I know those kids are disciplined, and we've got a lot of people on my staff who have been around the Colorado program that assured me of those things early. I've been able to see those things first-hand by being around Gary more.