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"And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996."
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"The problem with winning the rat race is you're still a rat."

"Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery."

"A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning."

"These guys who keep on playing but aren't winning, you've got to sit them down and let them figure it out and perform a little gut-check on themselves."

"I don't gamble, because winning a hundred dollars doesn't give me great pleasure. But losing a hundred dollars pisses me off."
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"I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here."

"I think what coaching is all about, is taking players and analyzing there ability, put them in a position where they can excel within the framework of the team winning. And I hope that I've done that in my 33 years as a head coach."

"He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different."

"You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance."

"I coached against Dave the last couple of years, and I was very proud to be the first time a father ever coached against his son. He beat me for 30 minutes the first time and 59 and a half minutes the second time."

"Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table."

"What I learned from that loss, and also another loss that I'm going to talk about later, was that when you're there, it's not good enough to be there, when you're there, you better walk away with that ring."
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