Coaches? They can talk. I tell them: 'Just make sure before you open your mouth you've researched what you're about to say. Don't just say stuff. And if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.'
— Herm Edwards
We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.
Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.
The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!
To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.
When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.
You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.
I don't go crazy but I have those spurts.
You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.
Football ignites my soul.
When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.
I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.
As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.
I think Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.
One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.
You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.
I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.
Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.
When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.
I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.
You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.
My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father - discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.
At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.
You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.
You don't forget how to coach.
I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.
I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.
I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.
You don't want an emotional team; you want a passionate team.
I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.
I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.
I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.
The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.
There's good times and bad times. That's part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it's about not only winning games, it's about developing men.
If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.
I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.
It's good to have somebody else say what you're thinking.
It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let's go win this game. It's called team.
It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.
The support of Chiefs fans across the country has been tremendous. They are truly passionate about their football team.
You play to win the game.
The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.
I like to have fun.
I don't need validation from people at all.
I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.
If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.
I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a choice.
College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.
I'm a neat freak.
