The higher the risk, the higher the reward.

I've convinced myself I'm something special. When you do that, man, you're dangerous, especially when you have the athleticism and work ethic to back it up.

Fighting is not what I do - it's who I am. It's what I was meant to do, what I was meant to be. I knew that right after my first MMA practice.

You have to turn the lemons life gives you into lemonade, and you have to take time to sit back and enjoy it.

Just staying healthy, that is true wealth and true happiness.

We've got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we're worrying about. It's unbelievable to me. And as long as I'm alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.

I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.

The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.

From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won't seem to go away.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.

Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.

I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

I get excited for big games in December.

It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.

All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.

There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.

I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder.