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.

In life, there's second chances. But that doesn't mean everyone gets a second chance with your team. That's where your moral compass comes in.

I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.

I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.

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.

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.

No one player is bigger than the team.

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.

I'm a neat freak.

It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.

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.

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.

I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.

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.

When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.

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.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

Curtis Martin just has to be Curtis Martin, and whatever that is, that's good enough. He doesnt have to be Clark Kent or Lois Lane.

Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don't curse a word, but you get discipline.

People who've watched me on television, they go, 'Oh, that's who this guy is.' So when I walk into their home, they say, 'Coach, you're that same guy! We trust you with our son.'

You play to win the game.

I used to tell people I was 6-foot-4. And with that afro, I was.

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.

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.

You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.

What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.

I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.

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.

It used to be that the hardest thing to cover was underthrown balls. Then coaches began to think, 'So why not start throwing back-shoulder fades?'

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 think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

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.

One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.

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.

I think Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

You don't want an emotional team; you want a passionate team.

I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.

I don't need validation from people at all.

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.

I like to have fun.

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.

Football ignites my soul.

I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.

You don't forget how to coach.

I don't go crazy but I have those spurts.

The support of Chiefs fans across the country has been tremendous. They are truly passionate about their football team.

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.

At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.