The pursuit of perfection may be impossible, but if we chase perfection, we just might catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi

"I look across the field and there is one man in the bleachers. He is standing there watching us with his raincoat over his head. "Who's that guy?" I say to John Gordon. "Only a nut would stay out in a rain like this unless he's scouting. Find out who he is." I don't make a fetish of secrecy."

Individual commitment to a group effort — that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.

Tackling is easier to teach and keep tuned than blocking simply because it is more natural. If a man is running down the street with everything you own, you won't let him get away. That's tackling.