Coaches help every facet of a person's life.

My wife, Olivia, always thought I was one day going to go into coaching. But after playing until I was 37, I didn't want to subject my family to that nomad life. I think I definitely could have done it.

People are just so passionate about football in the South. Great rivalries through the years. Unbelievable rivalries. It's healthy.

Kids are doing more in their offseason. That's what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That's how you get better.

We just take pride that our sons have worked hard and they handle their position as a quarterback.

The game of football is always changing.

I wasn't supposed to run as much as I did in the NFL. But it turned out that all that scrambling I had done in college became necessary in the NFL. It wasn't by design. It was because I was running for my life!

God that's a great game. I wish I'd played my whole career in flag football.

When Peyton played, he was a grinder. I mean he was up early and late.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.

In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.

As a coach, one thing that used to frustrate me was one player would make a bad decision, and that's all you would read about in the papers all over the country. We have so many athletes do so many wonderful things for other people, and you never read about it.

I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.

The University of Notre Dame does not redshirt, and I endorse that policy completely. I am very much in favor of redshirting, but not at Notre Dame. But there's no doubt about it. It puts us at a huge disadvantage.

To win a national championship, you've got to be a little lucky.

All an agent is going to do is buy things for a player, damage his eligibility, and make the player dependent on them.

I do think coaches need to get away from the game more, though. It's good for them.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

If Tiger Woods had played football, he would have been a quarterback.

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.