When Super Bowl time comes around, I get jealous.
I don’t have to make examples out of players to establish my own place. I don’t feel like I have to.
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 don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.
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.
I have always felt like you really don’t have a genuine confidence unless you demonstrate the ability to do something. You can talk about it, but you have to demonstrate it.
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.
This season isn’t going to be without several crises. There’s no doubt about it. They’re coming.
We’re not playing solitaire out here.
It’s a lot easier to lose than it is to win. It’s easier, but it’s not more comfortable.
When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.
You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.
There’s a line, players usually don’t cross it and coaches usually don’t cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had ’em. I’m not proud of those.
Creatures of similar plumages habitually congregate in places of closest proximity.
It’s a very easy thing to say, ‘Go get a backup quarterback.’ Now tell me where to get them. You just can’t dial them up.
The media dwells mostly on negativity.
Usually older players, late in the season, start to get cold.
I’ll call somebody ‘dumb’ or ‘stupid’ if they make a dumb or stupid play. I don’t know any other word for it, and if they don’t like the word, that’s too bad.
If you got anything to you at all as an athlete and a competitor, you don’t care what the circumstances are. You still got competition.