Oh, man, if in real life I was as cool and suave as Coach Taylor and had all the answers, things would be easier.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One way I differ from my character, Coach Taylor, is that I never would have taken this faraway job without my wife's consent.
Did I ever think at the time, when I was with the Alouettes and the Chicago Blitz, that I would be head-coaching a team in the Super Bowl? It would be hard to believe. Is it a dream come true? Yes.
Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.
I've been very fortunate to be with Coach Saban this long, learned a lot of football from him. It's been kind of the key to my personal success out of the places that I've coached.
But as a coach I wanted to keep things from being too complicated.
As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.
For whatever reason, Coach Schwartz and I weren't all that close at first. We didn't have that kind of relationship, really. I don't know why, maybe because I was a rookie, but I never felt real comfortable just popping my head in his office and sitting down to talk.
I have no desire at all to become the winningest coach at Notre Dame. The record belongs to Knute Rockne or some other coach in the future.
I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He taught me so much about playing quarterback in the NFL and made me a better football player.
Coaching wouldn't be for me. No, certainly not.