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If I were going to stay in coaching, I would have stayed right there because I was totally happy.

My children see me being coach enough. I gotta make sure they see me being dad.

I'm sure at some point I will get back into coaching, but right now I need to focus completely on my kids.

To be successful in coaching you have to treat your team like a family. The leader needs backing from everyone.

I fell in love with coaching. I loved interacting with young people, having the opportunity to make a tremendous impression on them.

As a parent, you have to be good coach and bad coach, and I think in the college-application process, I didn't want to be bad coach. 'This is amazing! I'm so proud of you!' That's the role I wanted with my kids.

A big part of my decision is not made about whether I'm able to coach in the NHL or if I'm ready to step up and take that challenge. Basically, it's about my family, it's about my children, and this is where my decision is going to have to be made.

As a football coach, everything in your life comes after your football schedule. I just could not make that commitment.

I'm not going to coach again. I've done my coaching, and I think I can put that aside.

Had I been a great athlete, I'm not sure I would have even gone into coaching. I may have turned out feeling that my life ended when my athletic career ended, as happens so many times with various athletes.