Nowadays, if you are afraid of confrontation, you are not going to do very well.

If the players don't trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

I have always felt like you really don't have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.

All the backs in the history of this game are the same when there isn't any hole to run through.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.