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I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game.

I think there is a lot of experiences you have in coaching, and if you learn from the experiences as you go through them, whether it's as a coordinator or position coach, a quality-control coach, a head coach, whatever it might be, and you learn from those mistakes you make.

I've been around young, talented, non-coachable players. I've been around veteran, talented, non-coachable players. No matter what you do, sooner or later - even if a coach comes in that's able to connect with them - if that's who they are, they're going to go back to it.

I learned a long time ago how to be coachable.

Coaches who have been players in the league, they get so attuned to playing how they were successful and who their coaches were.

So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.

Look, coaching is about human interaction and trying to know your players. Any coach would tell you that. I'm no different.

I'm not a defender of old or new football managers. I believe in good ones and bad ones, those that achieve success and those that don't.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

I'm a player, the coaches coach.