Everybody has an opportunity to play a role, a playmaking role, so it makes it harder to coach. It takes a little more time.

I'm a sports-watcher. I played football and baseball, coached baseball. So I watch those things.

You have to be unique.

People think I would never take on a team that has no legitimate chance to win a championship, This is one of the major misconceptions about me. Success can be measured in many different ways. . . . Either way, I would find the challenge invigorating.

Coaching is about, "How do I get people to play at their peak level?" It is a spiritual quest. And if it's not that, you don't have a challenge, you don't have a mission. Forming a brotherhood and trying to move it forward - that's what coaching is.

My philosophy is that you can't motivate players with speeches, you have motivated players that you draft. That's where they come in and those are the guys that are competitive. You cannot teach competitiveness.

The sign of a great player is how much he elevates his colleagues' performance.