In the end, I've found, people like the direct approach. It's much more valuable to them to have a leader who's absolutely clear and open than to have one who soft-soaps or talks in circles.

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

I'm a little superstitious.

Individuals play the game, but teams win championships.

The media dwells mostly on negativity.

You don't get any medal for trying something, you get medals for results.

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.