I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

My first assistant-coaching job in football was at William & Mary in 1961.

If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway, I don't hire him.

I won't accept anything less than the best a player's capable of doing... and he has the right to expect the best that I can do for him and the team!

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

Coaching is nothing more than eliminating mistakes before you get fired.

Show me someone who has done something worthwhile, and I'll show you someone who has overcome adversity.

Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

I don't know anything about baseball.

Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.

But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives.

We want to enjoy our families and the hype leading up to the game.

I had 10 to 12 close buddies who I played ball with all the way from elementary to high school. That is where I learned to compete.

It's definitely harder being a dad than a coach.

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.

That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.

When I was15 years old, I couldn't look at the NFL and look on TV and say, 'Boy, there's a head coach, African American. That's something I'd like to do.'

I know when I was an assistant coach and I started interviewing for head coaching jobs, I actually lost out on many jobs, several jobs, and the complaint that I got was, 'Well, he doesn't fit the mold of a head coach. He doesn't look the part. He's not gonna jump up and down. He's not going to scream.'