When I was really little, I was on a Pop Warner squad. I did it for a year. My dad was a Pop Warner football coach. I did it because my best friend was also on this cheer squad, and of course I looked up to my sister who was a cheerleader, so I wanted to cheer.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
My dream, I remember, when I went to boarding school, was to have a study all my own, a little nook someplace where nobody could get at me - nobody, like the football coach.
For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.
If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.