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I've always been entranced by writing.

Where else would you rather be than right here, right now?

A failure becomes just one time at bat if you refuse to let it defeat you.

I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

Plan your work and work your plan.

I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

My father Sam, by his lifelong example, displayed for me the virtues of an honest day's work and of great personal courage.

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.

Actually, I'm working on a book of poetry.

Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.

I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.

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.

This is not a must-win; World War II was a must-win (Referring to the Super Bowl)

Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.

I never have suspected or sensed a whiff of cheating in any of our Super Bowls.

If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.

World War II was a must win.

I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.

All the buildup and hype, everything else, is foam. The game is the beer.

Chronological age is only an approximation of your functional age.

When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.

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.

If you don't change with the times, the times are going to change you.

Adversity is an opportunity for heroism.

Systems don't win, players do.

I don't know if there ever has been anyone in the NFL who plays his position as well as Steve Tasker.

Security comes from earning it-not seeking it.

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.

Great football coaches have the vision to see, the faith to believe, the courage to do - and 25 great players.

I did a lot of studying of great writers. I read that Hemingway rewrote 'The Sun Also Rises' 39 times.

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.

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.

If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.

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.

As a collegiate, I think you spend 50 percent of your time recruiting. It is a distasteful process.

Sure education is valuable in any respect regardless of what field you are in.

If you have everything prepared, the rest will take care of itself.

Expect rejection, but expect even more strongly to overcome it.