When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, 'Do you think I'm Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?' After that, they called me Tuna.

My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.

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

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

I'd like to be somewhere near Lawrence Taylor so I can keep an eye on that sucker.

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.

I don't have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don't feel like I have to.