That’s the interesting thing about the philosophy — to accomplish the grand, you have to focus on the small. To exist in the eternal perspective, you have to live in the moment.

I learned a tremendous amount about what was important to me as a head coach in that I was not in charge. I didn't have final say about what was going on, and I was always having to represent other people's views, and it was very difficult to be real, to be authentic, to be true because there were a number of people who had say about what was going on.

The open side Defensive End has to be one of your best football players. Size does not matter as much. We want an athletic player who can move around.

Troy Polamalu was a fascinating player, and that made him.

We're not going to do anything different for this game since we're not treating this game any different than another game. Every game is a championship game for us, so we'll treat this one, the last one and the next one exactly the same. And that goes for our practices leading up to it as well.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

I just realized how bad it is when you're not in charge and you're a head coach.