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I started out wanting to coach football.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.

There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school.

I don't think about becoming a head coach. I really don't. I'm not oblivious of people who mention it. When you are in any business, people expect to aspire to the top. I guess everyone is supposed to aspire to being the man at the top of the heap. But I never have.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

There were high school coaches such as Charles Boston that took me under his wing and taught me the fundamentals of football. And when I went to college there was Robert Hill who took me there and he showed me what hard work and determination would do if you put forth the effort and you take a little time.

Both of my sons used to coach high school football. When they started, I'd say things I shouldn't have. So I learned my lesson.

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

I don't want to lose myself in football and that's what a coach has to do to be successful.