I grew up on a pig farm, about 2,500 pigs – we had way more pigs than people.

The only way to get to be the team you want to be is to get better every day.

I was on a farm basically from the age of 3 until I left for college – really thought that was all I was ever going to do.

I just like to get better every day.

The more you press, the more you try to make something more than it needs to be, you probably end up misfiring.

There’s so much in the world that has already been done, but there are plenty of things left for people who want to go get it.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you’ve got a very good chance of success.

Consistency is a beautiful word.

We’ve got to make our opponents earn everything they get.

My players mean the world to me.

Hard work pays off.

The Big Ten is brand strong.

I can tell you this: we at the Big Ten don’t want to be like the SEC – in any way, shape or form.

You can’t tap somebody in the helmet and say, ‘Go be physical.’ If you’re not physical, you can’t play physical, and that’s a big part of what we believe in.

We do a thing here at Arkansas that we teach Football IQ and call it ‘Hogonese.’ They are classes year-round where we get our guys better at the language and culture we want in our program.

You want your assistants to move up. But you want it to be a hard decision. You want them to only be willing to leave if they’re walking into a dream situation. You don’t want money to ever be a factor.

I love to compete – don’t get me wrong.

You can take Saban’s record when he was at Michigan State and when he was a coach in the Big Ten and put it against mine, and he can’t compare.

You know, my wife is a south Florida girl. She was born and raised in Tampa so she‘s traditionally lived in the South.

I have cooked for a recruit. The biggest recruit of my life: my wife.

I’ve turned down players based on their Twitter handles. I’ve turned down players based on Twitter pictures.

Education is the best way to relieve someone from a bad thought process.

In this league you might have a quarterback within your division that you’re worried about running all over the place, the next week it’s a running back, so to be able to have multiple answers for every situation is probably a benefit for everybody.

Arkansas is very intriguing to me because it is the only show in the state. Obviously, without a professional team and to have the only Division I football team playing at the level that it’s at, it kind of draws unified support throughout the whole state. When you’ve got that, it’s something special.

We at the Big Ten don’t want to be like the SEC … in any way, shape or form.

I think that the role as a head football coach is a lot more than just winning games. Sometimes that’s all we’re measured upon.

If I got into TV, I’d want to be the best.

We’re not necessarily going to be more athletic than the other team, but we can outwork them, and we can be tougher than they are.

One thing I think you have to do here at Wisconsin is maximize your personnel. From the standpoint of getting our best players out there, you’ve really got to make sure you’re not burying anybody at a position.

There was a point in time in Wisconsin football when people used to just go to watch the band.

I am a big believer in life in this fact: Scars are a very beautiful thing.

I’d never been on a plane until I went to the Peach Bowl my freshman year at Iowa.

Any time you see something out there floating around that’s not really reality, it’s better to just cease it and stop it.

I think when a man shows his true emotions, it’s a really good indicator off what he is.

I grew up watching my mom cook.

When you get a little older you get a little wiser.

My wife loves to watch ‘Criminal Minds‘ and ‘CSI’ and all those shows.

I’ve never taken a cooking class. I’ve never gone to a cooking show. I’ve never read a recipe in my life.

I don’t mind Twitter. But when a kid makes a decision based on how many Twitter followers he gets, that’s when I’m about ready to tap out.

I was single for so long, for 42 years.