326 Quotes by Mike Holmgren

I was teaching history and coaching both tennis and track along with football. I felt like I had the best of both worlds. I was pretty comfortable. I thought I would be doing what I was doing for the rest of my life.

It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.

It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.

People ask me often, 'Why did you leave Green Bay? You had the best quarterback, you were going good and all that.' But I've always been one for challenges. Try to build something up, try something new, challenge myself.

I always could go into restaurants in Chicago, and nobody would throw anything at me. There are people there who might not like me, but I think they respect me.

I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.

I had to see how I'd feel about not working, and what I've learned about myself is I miss it.

I never had anything planned, like, 'When I'm 40 I'll be coaching here.' A number of people in our profession have done that, but my thing was always, wherever I was coaching, to work hard, do the best you can, and if it happens, it happens.