“I try to block out everything that distracts me. Even a big play, I blank it out.”

Football is an incredible game. Sometimes it’s so incredible, it’s unbelievable.

Confidence comes from knowing what you’re doing. If you are prepared for something, you usually do it. If not, you usually fall flat on your face.

If they lose, then their life has somehow been diminished. I’m not that way, and it keeps me steady.

I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

You don’t have to drink or swear or hit people in the face when they’re not looking, but you do have to be tough to win.

Setting a goal is not the main thing. It is deciding how you will go about achieving it and staying with that plan.

If you eliminate our way of life, the American way of life, what is the effect… what are the alternatives?

Achievement builds character.

If you don’t win a Super Bowl, you’re not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

I probably should have gotten out, but I really enjoyed the challenge of bringing a team to that game. In fact, I probably enjoy the challenge of it more than the actual game.

There are coaches to whom winning or losing means something close to life or death.

If you show emotion in competition, temporarily, you’ll be ineffective.

I’ve learned that something constructive comes from every defeat.

Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.

People say you have to know when to retire, which is a dumb thing to say. If you want to go out on top, yeah, it becomes important when you quit. But I wasn’t afraid of that. And I wasn’t worried about getting fired.

As a Christian, I know my life is in God’s hands. He has a plan for me.

I played everything. I played lacrosse, baseball, hockey, soccer, track and field. I was a big believer that you played hockey in the winter and when the season was over you hung up your skates and you played something else.

It’s a big, big advantage because understanding what changes we might make takes time and it takes time to work out settings and to understand everything about the new machine.

I think sometimes in life the biggest challenges end up being the best things that happen in your life.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

The problem with Indians is that we have lost the habit of thinking big!

Nobody who takes on anything big and tough can afford to be modest.

When you are bigger than your purpose you have a career. When your purpose is bigger than you, you have a calling.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.