All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.

Don't worry about it. It's just a bunch of guys with an odd-shaped ball.

Success is never final, but failure can be.

I think there are a lot of good people, a lot of good football guys in the NFL.

Part of buying the groceries is having a philosophy and trying to stick to it as best you can, knowing that occasionally you may make an exception. But, you do so knowing you're attempting to do it for a certain reason and you have to be very careful not to try to make too many exceptions, because then you wind up as a franchise with a team full of exceptions, which is not what you want.

I'm not really in the excuse business.

You can easily separate 'team guys' from 'me guys' by how they accept coaching. The guys that accept it are about winning