If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.

Coaches who want to coach in the NFL usually don't go to the high school level for 10 years. They know where they want to go early.

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.

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

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 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.

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

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

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