“Don’t tell me about the pain. Show me the baby.”

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

God’s been good to me, He really has.

Something goes wrong, I yell at them -‘Fix it’- whether it’s their fault or not. You can only really yell at the players you trust.

Blame no one. Expect nothing. Do something.

You are what your record says you are.

No matter how much you’ve won, no matter how many games, no matter how many championships, no matter how many Super Bowls, you’re not winning now, so you stink.

We’re not playing solitaire out here.

I don’t like celebrity quarterbacks. We don’t need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Winning coaches look for opportunities to praise. Anything that reflects a commitment to the team is praiseworthy

Success is never final, but failure can be.

What sets disciplined people apart? – The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

My expectations are greater than the average fan’s but, I’m more realistic than the top prognosticators.

When I was coaching with the Patriots, the players pulled a practical joke and I said, ‘Do you think I’m Charlie the Tuna, like a sucker?’ After that, they called me Tuna.

Accept false steps as opportunities to learn. It’s one thing to hate failure, it’s another to fear it.

You get too old to lose. When you were a young guy, you bounced back from losses.

Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.

Thomas Gordon, founder of P.E.T. (Parent Effectiveness Training), observed that when children are behaving in a way that interferes with your ability to meet your needs, shouting direct orders to them doesn’t work very well.

The fundamental difference between the mystery story and the ghost story is the fact that a mystery demands a solution for its effectiveness; a ghost story is necessarily unsolvable; the reader must be willing to accept the fact that nothing is proved.

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

Gandhi once declared that it was his wife who unwittingly taught him the effectiveness of nonviolence. Who better than women should know that battles can be won without resort to physical strength? Who better than we should know all the power that resides in noncooperation?

The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

If you so choose, every mistake can lead to greater understanding and effectiveness.

But there is no doubting the effectiveness of a really good willy gag.

There is a lot of rubbish written about toilet humour