We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.

Football is the total team game.

I see a lot of myself in a young Mike Vrabel. He is very competitive. He is very respectful of the game, but he looks at each opportunity as an opportunity to prove something that people don't think you can do, and he'll create that narrative.

My family has made a lot of sacrifices for me, and I'm looking forward to being there for them.

There comes a time in your life - I'm healthy and happy, and I've been fortunate - you've got to prioritize things.

In all honesty, I hope I don't coach again.

You can always go back, to coaching. You can't go back to spending time with your family.

Balance is really important.

I never brought my job to my house, I never brought my house to the job.

Confidence is a fragile thing.

Every year the identity of a team changes to some degree.

It isn't just about winning the championship and I don't think you should be defined by that.

You realize how hard it is to get there, but don't lose sight that the goal is to win a championship.

Nobody remembers that you lost a Super Bowl, they remember who won a Super Bowl.

What the Jets did with Mark Sanchez, they took a rookie quarterback and went pretty far with him.

There's so much more involved with the game than just sitting there, looking at the numbers and saying, 'OK, these are my percentages, then I'm going to do it this way,' because that one time it doesn't work could cost your team a football game, and that's the thing a head coach has to live with, not the professor.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

I find most video games too complicated to play.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

Tom Coughlin has done a great job and is an excellent coach.

The goal is to hit your stride, stay in the hunt and be playing your best football in December.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

As a kid you were proud to say you were from Pittsburgh.

I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.

To be recognized for making the contributions I did, along with the others who are part of the Hall of Honor, it really is humbling. Particularly when you grow up in Pittsburgh and know what the Steelers mean to the city. To me, as a little boy growing up watching the Steelers, this means a lot to me. It's special.

When you talk about tradition, and organizations, the Steelers are one of the best in the NFL.

I had the best job in the NFL.

Keith Butler is a very good football coach.

I've been very blessed to be surrounded by some very special people.

I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you've prepared for all week all of a sudden isn't there.

Le'Veon Bell, as we have seen through the years when healthy, is such a dynamic player not just out of the backfield, but as a receiver.

Antonio Brown is, if not the best receiver in the league, one of the best.

To be taught to coach by Marty Schottenheimer, to be able to go to an organization like the Steelers. I came there at 34, probably brash, ready to set my niche.

Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

The one thing you don't want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.

You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

We won a lot of games, we brought play'off games to the city of Pitts'burgh, we won play'off games.

I wanted to be my'self and I wanted the play'ers to take pride in ev'ery'thing they did. We rep'resent the Pitts'burgh Steel'ers but we also rep'resent the city of Pitts'burgh. You're a leader and a role model, whether you want to be or not.

I think the bottom line is wins and losses. That is probably the most important stat to look at.

It is a lot easier to kick off a turf field than it is off a grass field.

When you think about a Hall of Fame player, you think about someone who impacted the game, someone you had to game plan for.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount of money and do it halfway. It would be a total commitment, not part-time.

I just love the Buffalo market. Say what you want about their fans, it'll be December and they've been out of the playoffs for a month. But if there's a December game with snow, there's still going to be 72,000 people in those stands. One of the most passionate, loyal groups of fans in the National Football League, bar none.