When you have things taken away, you promise you’ll never take anything for granted ever again.

You’re defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

I’ve got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can’t stand it.

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

My vision is that I’m living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

I’ve always been a religious person.

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: ‘Is your goal to be a head football coach?’

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they’re dealing with, their set of circumstances, that’s the right thing to do.

If you’re running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

If you don’t have your health, you don’t have anything.

I am the luckiest man in the world.

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn’t happen with me.

With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don’t do anything different. You just keep working to get better.

I’ve always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches… build a trust.

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.