Top 74 Quotes & Sayings by Tom Herman

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Tom Herman.

Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Thomas Herman III is an American football coach and former player who most recently served as an offensive analyst and special projects coach for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL). He was the head football coach for the Texas Longhorns at the University of Texas at Austin from 2017 to 2020. Prior to that, he served as the head football coach at the University of Houston from 2015 to 2016.

American - Coach | Born: June 2, 1975

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Bankers don't get to do this. For all the hours, the late nights, lack of sleep and hours of pulling your hair out from dealing with 18- and 19-year-old kids, it's a pretty cool job.

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Our goal is, train harder and more physical than any program in the country.

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

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I think there's a lot of different ways to score points and win football games and be efficient offensively, just like there is on defense and special teams. That's what makes this great game so special.

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The biggest expectations we'll always have for the University of Texas will be from within.

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Pressure comes from being unprepared.

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I'm a guy who was born in Cincinnati and whose entire family except for my mother still lives in Cincinnati - my grandmother, aunts, uncles, cousins, nephews, you name it.

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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.

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

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Twitter gives you a forum to let loose a little bit and have fun.

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I want my kids to win. Winners get the corner office, the big house, the hot wife, the whole nine.

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I've learned a lot about lockers.

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If your players believe in what you're telling them, no matter how trivial the subject, no matter how important the subject, then it influences the way they behave, and that will influence results.

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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.

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Players will get you above average. To get to the elite, you need culture and leadership.

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Pressure is self-inflicted.

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I think most athletes want to be told when they make a mistake. They don't want to be coddled. They can deal with criticism, especially when it's valid.

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I'm an anti-standard operating procedure guy.

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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.

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We will win championships.

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We all want to be praised, right?

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

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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 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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I believe in routine.

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How do you motivate a human being to do things against his own nature? There's two things: love and fear. And to me, love wins every time.

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We changed the University of Houston in 23 short months more than anybody thought was possible. Not just from a wins and losses standpoint but from an infrastructure standpoint as well.

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We will build men of character.

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

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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.'

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I think pressure is that uneasy feeling that you feel when you're unprepared.

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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.

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I think coaches who don't coddle but praise players when they deserve it get the best results.

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

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When the President of the United States comes out and says, 'If I had boys, I wouldn't let them play tackle football,' that's a big punch to the gut for our sport.

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To me, Jon is not a fun name. Thomas is not a fun name.

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Winning isn't just about the material things you attain, it's about being your best in all you do.

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I've failed hundreds of thousands of times.

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I was a Division III kid whose dad wasn't a coach.

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

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Greg Davis, Ron Randleman, David Bailiff, Paul Rhoads, Urban Meyer. I would be remiss if I didn't mention all of them as influences.

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We define our success internally.

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I don't take anything too seriously.

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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.'

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If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

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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 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.

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At the end of the day I like winning.

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You can't win championships without playing great defense.

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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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I sleep so easy knowing that I never once lied to a player, never once lied to a recruit, and never once lied to any coaches or administration. Those are the people I care about.

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Belief that influences behavior influences results.

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

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I got criticized at Ohio State, and my boss took up for me. I got criticized at Iowa State at times, and my boss took up for me.

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

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Pressure is self-doubt when you're unprepared.

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