Success is never final, but failure can be.

I think confrontation is healthy, because it clears the air very quickly.

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.

I've been around enough to know what it takes to get a team to reach its potential, and I want players who want to reach their potential.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

I'm not trying to keep anybody happy.

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.