I've always talked to players about perception and reality. I don't worry about perception. There may be some of that, that people want to attach to a good name, but the reality is that some good things can happen.

We wanted guys who had been productive in college, and we made it a point to pick performance over potential.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

Hard work and togetherness. They go hand in hand. You need the hard work because it's such a tough atmosphere... to win week in and week out. You need togetherness because you don't always win, and you gotta hang though together.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

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.

The Lord has a plan. We always think the plans are A, B, C and D, and everything is going to be perfect for us and it may not be that way, but it's still His plan.