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" If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist. "

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" In the NFL, you've got to get to the Super Bowl, and you've got to win it. That's the evaluation we're all accountable to. "

" I miss high school football. "

" If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems. "

" To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing. "

" I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch. "

" I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess. "

" All it takes is one coach that believes in you. "

" From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way. "

" You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do. "

" Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback. "

" I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL. "

" Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams. "

" Some guys, nothing bothers them. Eli Manning is one of those players. "

" You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone. "

" I get excited for big games in December. "

" Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains. "

" If you're a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you're looking for. "

" In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others. "

" Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising. "

" I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him. "

" I love the AFC West. "

" When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people. "

" I love finishers. "

" You have to keep trying to get better. "

" I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination. "

" I'm not a good golfer. I don't have any hobbies, really. "

" I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me. "

" I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why. "