I was able to look at football as something that God was allowing me to do, not something that should define me. I couldn't take my identity from this sport.

Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

I just think winners win. And guys who won all the way through high school and college, the best player at every level, they have a way of making things happen and winning games.

When I was younger I only read sports books. I loved the biographies that told how athletes developed. When I got into coaching, I did start to read more instructional books, but I was always more interested in the people behind the ideas.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

When it's over, it's over is part of football's greatest appeal to me. When a game ends, win or lose, it's time to prepare for the next one.

First, there is no typical grief cycle, and second, it's not something I went through. I'm still grieving.