“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.”

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.

If the players don’t trust the coach, it is a problem, and vice versa.

Never let the world define you as less than Great.

Well, I’ve had a long standing relationship with Gatorade and they’ve been very, very good to me. And I believe in their products, I really do. I’ve used them for many, many years.

I don’t look at a problem and put variables in there that don’t affect it.

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

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.

Nature is the best instructor.

If after accepting the spiritual master and being initiated one does not follow the rules and regulations of devotional service, then he is again fallen.

From childhood, I had been instructed in the tablaa by my father, along with the astaais and antaraas specific to our Gharana.

Real men don’t use instructions, son. Besides, this is just the manufacturer’s opinion on how to put this together.

There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

Don’t always blindly follow guidance and step-by-step instructions; you might run into something interesting.