An automobile goes nowhere efficiently unless it has a quick, hot spark to ignite things, to set the cogs of the machine in motion. So I try to make every player on my team feel he's the spark keeping our machine in motion.

No star playing, just football.

If winning isn't everything why bother to keep the score?

The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.

Drink the first. Sip the second slowly. Skip the third.

The only qualifications for a lineman are to be big and dumb. To be a back, you only have to be dumb.

It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.