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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I think comparisons are odious.

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.

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.

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

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.

If you see a defense team with dirt and mud on their backs they've had a bad day.

There's so many kids who only know me from the video game.

I was an old tackle riding around talking to people about sports. Like I've said to a lot of people over the years, 'I only go where old tackles go, and if an old tackle does not belong there, I'm not going.'

It's been the video game ever since I got out of coaching. Even when I was an announcer, fewer and fewer people remembered me as 'Coach,' and as the years went on, people just started knowing me from the game.

I respect coaches; I respect what good coaches do. I know that you don't learn to be a coach in an hour and a half.