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.
As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.
A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.
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.
You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.