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World War II was a must win.
Systems don't win, players do.
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Plan your work and work your plan.
I've always been entranced by writing.
Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.
I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.
What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.
A good education prepares you well for anything.
When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
Football doesn't build character, it reveals character.
Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?
Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.
Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.
If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.
There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.
What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.
If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.
I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.
A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.
I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.
If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.
Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.
I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.
This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)
I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.
Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.
I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.
I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.
The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.
If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.
Three, maybe four times a week, I run for 30 minutes. If I don't run, I'm out for a brisk walk at least an hour every day.
My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.
I don't know exactly what are you supposed to do when you retire. Lie on the couch and do nothing? I didn't want to do that.
Bill Polian and I agreed when we first came together with the Buffalo Bills that we'd bring players only of high character to the team.
You adhere to a philosophy, but part of the philosophy I have is that I don't want to be too doggone inflexible that I miss a good player.
There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.
I took all the courses you would need to be able to go to law school. But my experience in college with football made me want to go into coaching.
Our goal is to develop our team, to earn what we get, to learn, to develop unselfish attitudes. If we achieve that, the results is that we'll win.
In Buffalo, you can't imagine how much people revere Fred Jackson because of his high character, his community involvement, coming from a Division III school.
I am going to miss Don Shula. I like him, and I admire him. I'm going to miss looking those 53 yards across the field and thinking, 'There is a coaching legend.'
I got some very good advice once. That was: You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.
When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
As coaches, we learn to accept criticism for our decisions. If a writer says you shouldn't have gone for it on fourth-and-one, we understand that's part of the job. We expect it.
If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.