Coach

Football ignites my soul.

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.

We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.

The support of Chiefs fans across the country has been tremendous. They are truly passionate about their football team.

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

I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.

You don't forget how to coach.

What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.

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

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

When you talk about domestic violence, it's not just athletes that are involved in it. Our society has really done a poor job of addressing it. And it needs to come to the forefront.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

You don't want an emotional team; you want a passionate team.

The rules of the game really have given the offense an advantage, especially with pass interference.

I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.

I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.

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

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.

College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.

People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.