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I want players who are always striving to improve.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I really want be of great value for the team.

The most important thing is that you hire people who complement you and are better than you in specific areas. Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players.

I want my team to win and to be the best player I can possibly be.

You can have great players, but if they don't want to be coached, what are you going to do?

Sometimes they are big hurdles, but good players can overcome them. I am trying to do my best.

I like to be able to control which players I'm working with. Because it doesn't matter how good a coach you are if the guys you're working with think they already know it all. You need a response, you need to feel they're trying. I want players who are always striving to improve.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

You notice it with any organization that's had a lot of success: you will start to reach thinking, 'That's the player, that's the method, that's the mechanism, that's the coach, that's the thing that's going to put us over the top.'