The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

The start is what stops most people.

And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.