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A lot of things look good on an academic's blackboard in terms of the actions that need to be taken. It's almost like a football coach, when you draw the X's and O's: Every play that is chalked on that board goes for a touchdown. Well, there are a lot of yards to be made between the line of scrimmage and the touchdown.

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

Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

Really, coaching is simplicity. It's getting players to play better than they think that they can.

As his team prepares, a coach's entire being must be concentrated on winning games.

Name one experienced coach anywhere in the world that would hand over their playbook to the other team. Unless it's a fake playbook, it just doesn't happen.

The coach's job is to get the best players and get them to play together.

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.'

You can live by biblical principles, and you can teach by those principles and still be a winner. So many coaches think you've got to kick your players in the rear end. You've got to cuss them out. You've got to hit them across the head. No. You don't have to do that.

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