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.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

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's good to have somebody else say what you're thinking.

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.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.

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.

Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.

If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.

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.

Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.

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.'

Fans have their own idea about who to hire; that's what makes football great.

I was a bit of a rebel when I was young.

When you put pressure on the quarterback, everything looks a lot better.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

I like challenges.

Nobody on this earth can intimidate me.

I won't change my character for anybody.

If all you ever play with a cornerback in there is man to man, it is a disadvantage.