"The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break."
"Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear."
"Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble."
"The only yardstick for success our society has is being a champion. No one remembers anything else."
"The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer."
"I think comparisons are odious."
"Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon."
"When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to."
"If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day."
"Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system."
"That's the biggest gap in sports, the difference between the winner and the loser of the Super Bowl."
"If you think about it, I've never held a job in my life. I went from being an NFL player to a coach to a broadcaster. I haven't worked a day in my life."
"I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher."
"I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids."
"If a guy doesn't work hard and doesn't play well, he can't lead anything. All he is, is a talker."
"I get a certain feeling when I go to Lambeau field in Green Bay. Soldier field in Chicago is special to me. Those are the places that I really like. The stadiums."
"To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it."
"If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling."
"I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart."
"When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction."
"Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out."
"Al Davis has been the biggest influence in my professional football life. I mean, he was a guy that gave me an opportunity, one, to get into professional football in 1967 as an assistant coach, and then at the age of 32, giving me the opportunity to be the head coach."
"When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers."
"People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting."
"I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I never really had a job. I was a football player, then a football coach, then a football broadcaster. It's been my life. Pro football has been my life since 1967. I've enjoyed every part of it. Never once did it ever feel like work."
