Knowing his coach likes him is more important to a player than anything else. To me, it was important to be able to chew out a player for screwing up and for him to accept it because he knew I liked him anyway.

The quarterback has to get rid of the ball quickly, so there's not a lot of time to make moves to gain separation.

In Oakland, Al Davis was a genius. We had Ron Wolff there, too, and he was a genius. There was no room for me to be a genius.

They're on the right road, but there's a long way to go on concussions, not only in the NFL, but college football, high school football and all football.

I think comparisons are odious.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

Every time I go to the theater, there's something about the atmosphere, seeing something unfold live in front of an audience, that you can't get out of your system.

Sometimes you can be one of the best, but you don't accept that if you don't get the ring or win the Super Bowl. There's a lot of good teams between the Super Bowl winner and other teams. Once the Super Bowl is over, we lump everyone into the other 31, and that's not fair.

It's a lot easier to get a suit than it is to get a coach.

Nothing jazzes me up like football. I've acquired more passion of the years, not less. Not to love it wouldn't make sense.

When people watch football, they're looking for fun things.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

A consulting position might work in another profession, but not in pro football. There's no such thing. They give a guy a parking spot and put his name up as a consultant, and in six months, they erase the name.

If you go back to the history of the 'Madden' game, I was probably on the cover of it half the time. So if I was to believe there was a curse, I would also have to believe I'd been cursed. And I've never had that feeling.

I'd like to work with kids in special education - younger kids.

When your arm gets hit, the ball is not going to go where you want it to.

In all the years that I've been in football - I went directly from coaching to broadcasting - I never really had a lot of experience watching it.

I'm sure that had I not been a coach, I would have been some form of a teacher.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

I was a coach, and I put a lot of education and experience into coaching.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

I'm not a Method actor. I don't believe acting should be psychodrama. I look within myself and see what I can find to play the role with. If I'm playing a blind man, I don't go around blindfolded for days. A lot of good actors would, but I don't go in for that very much. I like to just make it up as I go along.

I wouldn't describe myself as lacking in confidence, but I would just say that - the ghosts you chase you never catch.

People get up, they go to work, they have their lives, but you'll never see the headlines say, 'Six billion people got along rather well today.' You'll have the headline about the 30 people who shot each other.

I have driven school buses, sold egg rolls and painted houses, and I have often wondered what my life would have been like if I hadn't gone into acting. Mind you, it's a great life, going around pretending you're other people and getting paid ridiculous sums of money for it.

I lost seventy pounds eating nothing but Jello for 4 months. But of course there is great variety in the colors! I think, if I remember correctly, it's 230 calories for a whole bowl. Maybe 270? In the 5th month, I added fruit.

Most of the women that I like have a haunted quality - they're sort of like women who live in a haunted house all by themselves.

I'm more boring and more conservative.

The world is ruled by violence, or at least the imminent threat of violence. It always has been.

If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.

If I had spent as much time in the weight room as I did designing football uniforms, I probably would have had a free college education.

Of course it's trivial, but then most things are.

I don't want a trillion-dollar empire to run.

I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.

It's tough to figure out how do we compete in Europe and North America, when obviously a living wage for us is very different than a living wage in Indonesia.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

I think 1973 was the nadir of fashion. When you watch the coverage from that era, you're struck by the astonishing ugliness of the clothes.

I think when I went to psychoanalysis, I actually believed that people said what they meant. This was my whole problem.

Well, I design costumes because I started with the theater in Chicago, but somehow a few lines just sort of fell to me to do it. And I studied it in school and I always liked it.

People always say life is short. I've never been convinced of that - mine seems to have a tendency to go on and on.

I don't lose my temper very often now, and if I do, it's well deserved.

When you do a really good play, the audience and the performers are looking into the same looking glass, the same microscope. And the specimen they are looking at is human life and that's why I do it, that's why I like it.

I can have incredible self-discipline. But see, I think it's obviously a form of stupidity.

I probably have more female friends than any man I've ever met. What I like about them is that almost always they're generally mentally tougher, and they're better listeners, and they're more capable of surviving things.

Some directors expect you to do everything; write, be producer, psychiatrist. Some just want you to die in a tragic accident during the shooting so they can get the insurance.

I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.

I know for a fact that a lot of actors are desperate and unhappy if their careers are not progressing at what they think is the correct rate. They just go crazy if they're not working. I don't feel I'd be that way. You can always get a few people together and put on a play. Maybe not in New York or L.A., but in a lot of other towns, you can.

Where women are concerned, the rule is never to go out with anyone better dressed than you.

It's not a gift of mine, but one given to me, to be able to criticise myself and not be crushed, by myself or by others.