No matter how much you've won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you're not winning now, so you stink.
When you don't know that you don't know, it's a lot different than when you do know that you don't know.
You can only really yell at the players you trust.
Success is never final, but failure can be.
My job is to call attention to the things that I think are the difference between winning and losing. If I can't do that then I have failed as a coach.
There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.
There is winning and there is misery.
All you have to do is play better than the other guy and things go well. If you don't play better than the other players then somebody takes your place. Now a lot of guys, in this day and time with the transient nature of the sport, as soon as the competition gets too good, they want out.
I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.
Any penalty - I've told you a hundred times - can be eliminated by concentration or good judgment.
The time to worry is before you place the bet - not after the wheel is spinning. Once it spins, you forget about it.
I'm trying to keep my own house from burning down. I can't worry about someone else's house.
The quarterback is in charge of the chuck wagon. He's handing it out here and there, but he can't just throw it out there indiscriminately or the wolves will get him.
Some guys are just very, very interested in their sport and their predecessors. I know I was a guy like that when I was a young coach. I wanted to know about George Halas, I wanted to know about Jim Lee Howell, guys you don't even know. I wanted to know what they were like. So I read whatever I could get my hands on.
I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.
I like linebackers. I collect 'em. You can't have too many good ones.
My expectations are greater than the average fan's but, I'm more realistic than the top prognosticators.
I love the game. I think it's a great game because you find out a lot about yourself. You test your mettle every week. There's no grey area, there's instant gratification and there are no quarterly reports. We're not just doing a little bit better. You know every Sunday what happened.
Look, when you are starting to put something together, you want the pudding to come out good. You're trying to put in the right ingredients.
My entire life has been spent thinking about this game. That's pretty narrow... I don't view myself as a person who's well-versed in very many subjects. I'm not proud of that.
I only want my team to play to its potential, as I perceive it to be. I really don't have any regard for anyone else's perception.
We're not playing solitaire out here.
This season isn't going to be without several crises. There's no doubt about it. They're coming.
