I am a firm believer that the Lord sometimes has to short-circuit even our best plans for our benefit.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

You never know what's going to happen. My mother was an English teacher. If someone had told her that I was going to write a book, she would never have believed that. So you can never say never.

I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.

I can't very well preach unity and tell the guys we're all in this together and everyone's important, then cut a guy because we might improve by one percent if we bring in someone else.