When you have kids, you never think of burying your own child.

Remember, a receiver can motion wherever, run wherever he wants to on the field, you can't get your hands on the guy and there is a lot of room. When you are a corner, you are playing to the boundary, which is your friend.

If all you ever play with a cornerback in there is man to man, it is a disadvantage.

I won't change my character for anybody.

Nobody on this earth can intimidate me.

I like challenges.

Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.

When you're an athlete, the one thing you're concerned about is injury, because that's the No. 1 thing that can take you out.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

When you put pressure on the quarterback, everything looks a lot better.

I was a bit of a rebel when I was young.

Fans have their own idea about who to hire; that's what makes football great.

Coaches? They can talk. I tell them: 'Just make sure before you open your mouth you've researched what you're about to say. Don't just say stuff. And if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.'

Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.

Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.

I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.

I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

It's good to have somebody else say what you're thinking.

It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let's go win this game. It's called team.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.