Bob Stoops

Spend a day around my players, around my African-American players, my Hispanic players, my Polynesian players, and you'll see the true beauty…

— Bob Stoops

Team chemistry is what really matters, your team chemistry and team toughness.

— Bob Stoops

I think every league is good. Every league is pretty much the same: You got your top teams that are all very…

— Bob Stoops

I have this routine where on Fridays I sign balls that need to be autographed. One time, after my fortieth or fiftieth…

— Bob Stoops

I've always believed if a young guy has a chance to play, why would you explain where his weakness is? The only…

— Bob Stoops

Everyone has to earn their money one way or the other.

— Bob Stoops

Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to…

— Bob Stoops

Any time you experience adversity, whether you lose a game or maybe have an official who makes a poor call that costs…

— Bob Stoops

I think proximity in recruiting matters the most.

— Bob Stoops

You've got to put the work in every week. You can't take anything for granted.

— Bob Stoops

The characteristic that every college football coach should look for in a wife is independence.

— Bob Stoops

I thought one of the best things I ever did in my career was getting my first staff together at OU... That's…

— Bob Stoops

No one wants to hear that, but life changes. If it changes, you have to change with it, to whatever degree.

— Bob Stoops

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

— Bob Stoops

Sometimes people want change just to change. It doesn't mean it's going to be better.

— Bob Stoops

I'm a huge wrestling fan. Wrestlers have so many great qualities that athletes need to have.

— Bob Stoops

There has to be measures for players to know the consequences for their actions.

— Bob Stoops

Coach Snyder was just a determined guy. I was at the ground floor at Kansas State. I learned a lot from that…

— Bob Stoops

I don't want to say [the teams] are mirror images of each other, ... but there's a lot of similarities on both…

— Bob Stoops

Big 12 Championship is, to me, it's always your primary goal to start with because it's not easy to do.

— Bob Stoops

I can't remember the last time I've been to a football game as a spectator.

— Bob Stoops

I know what really matters in my life.

— Bob Stoops

This game we play is the ultimate total team game. Quarterback by himself isn't winning it. You got 11-12 coaches, you've got…

— Bob Stoops

Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told…

— Bob Stoops

I have incredible respect for Coach Switzer.

— Bob Stoops