To me, the greatest invention of my lifetime is the laptop computer and the fact that I can be working on a book and be in an airport lounge, in a hotel room, and continue working; I fire up my laptop, and I'm in exactly the same place I was when I left home - that, to me, is a miracle.

I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.

The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain encouraged me to do more.

I sometimes think I cannot write another passage about a disappointing meal ever again, because I've done it so many times.

Yes, U.S. travelers dress better. The British are always so conspicuous in hot climates. They don't seem to wear shorts. American men seem to be comfortable wearing hot-weather clothing.

For a long time, I'd been vaguely fascinated by the idea that Charles Lindbergh flew the Atlantic and Babe Ruth hit 60 home runs in the same summer.

I painted myself into a corner by writing a whole book on this one period. The summer of 1927 came to an end, but nothing else did - all of these peoples' lives went on.

The basic challenge of any book is you know you're going to be working on it for three or four years or more. So you want to have a subject that will keep you engaged.

I like to do books in which a lot of the research and the writing and the thinking revolves around something American.

I can't imagine there has ever been a more gratifying time or place to be alive than America in the 1950s. No country had ever known such prosperity.

I don't know whether I'm misanthropic. It seems to me I'm constantly disappointed. I'm very easily disappointed.

I want things to be better all the time. And I tend to get angry about that. Books are an opportunity to vent.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

I just use my life story as a kind of device on which to hang comic observations. It's not my interest or instinct to tell the world anything pertinent about myself or my family.

The world is very lucky to have America. It's got to be the first time in the whole history of the planet that a country has been the dominant force in the world and it has actually been a force for good... America really deserves more credit.

Very little of what America does is actually bad, and I don't think it ever does anything anywhere that is intentionally bad. I mean, sometimes we make mistakes and bad judgments and kind of back the wrong regimes and things, but by and large what America does is really good.

I wish I could adjust my voice, but it's just what's happened to me. It's because I've lived abroad for a long time, and my wife is English and my kids all have English accents, and every voice I hear is English. I've never intentionally changed my accent at all.

I can wear a baseball cap; I am entitled to wear a baseball cap. I am genetically pre-disposed to wear a baseball cap, whereas most English people look wrong in a baseball cap.

In any area of human endeavour, there is going to be mediocrity. You're going to find people who get money that they shouldn't get.

I once joked in a book that there are three things you can't do in life. You can't beat the phone company, you can't make a waiter see you until he is ready to see you, and you can't go home again. Since the spring of 1995, I have been quietly, even gamely, reassessing point number three.

In 1927, if you were stuck with idle time, reading is what you did. It's no accident that the 'Book-of-the-Month Club' and 'The Literary Guild' were founded in that period as well as a lot of magazines, like 'Reader's Digest,' 'Time,' and 'The New Yorker.'

I grew up in Des Moines. My dad had a house full of books, things like P.G. Wodehouse books and 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte.

Stealing someone's signals was a part of the game and everybody attempted to do that. We had people that always tried to steal signals.

If I ever want to get back into coaching I should be calling teams they shouldn't be calling me. That's when you know you really want to do it.

I had some great players, great coaches, the best organization in football.

I've lived a blessed life.

Football is a total team sport.

To give back something to the game of football has been a part of my life.

The one thing that you can't ever take away are the relationships, the experiences that you have, particularly at the high school level.

Joe Flacco and Ben Roethlisberger are big guys with strong arms.

I really enjoy my job at CBS.

You're not going to see me on the sidelines. I enjoy it, I miss it, but not enough to get back.

No one loves football more than me.

I am a member of the Heads Up Football Advisory Committee, have participated in a Heads Up Football clinic, and strongly endorse the program. It's a better, safer way to play the game.

Heads Up Football is a comprehensive youth and high school football membership program developed by U.S.A. Football and supported by the NFL and other leaders in sport and medicine to advance player safety.

I want kids to continue to enjoy our game and benefit from the rewards of playing the ultimate team sport. That's why it's important for young players, parents, and coaches to know about U.S.A. Football's Head Up Football program.

We're trying to give a young man life lessons - sacrifice, commitment, teamwork, self-confidence, self-esteem. That's what this sport does for kids.

There's been a lot talk about football and safety issues. My big thing is the benefits far outweigh the risks.

You don't just forget things overnight.

Kaye was such a loving and compassionate person and she was the foundation of our family. Kaye was always at my side throughout my career as a player, coach, NFL analyst and, most importantly, as a parent to our three daughters Meagan, Lauren and Lindsay. They will miss their mother dearly.

The captain tag is something that every head coach in this league takes seriously.

The captain tag is something that players vote on, head coaches they give their title to. It requires a player that you think exemplifies leadership.

When you do something all of your life, it's still ingrained in you.

I'm from Pennsylvania, and that love for the simplicity of life never left me.

When you become a head coach, you've played the game; you've coached the game. You have a great understanding of what happens at every level.

I enjoy the balance I have in my life.

Men are naive to their bodies. They don't pay attention to their skin like women do.

I am not going to go back into coaching, just to go back into coaching. It has to be the right situation. And I don't know what the right situation consists of.

I have always had great respect for those who served. In my time, we had the draft.