I speak at a lot of banquets in small towns, because small towns have so many great people.
Football is, after all, a wonderful way to get rid of your aggressions without going to jail for it.
My brother and I were still in high school playing football, and we were both middleweight, and we couldn't find anyone else to fight in our weight class, so we'd fight each other. I was a stand-up fighter, and Ike was a weaving type of fighter, and we fought that way out there at Cy Young's farm, and we put on quite a show.
The players fire the coach, and as long as I'm on the same wavelength with them, I can coach as long as I want to.
Paralyze resistance with persistence.
The five big mistakes in football are the fumble, the interception, the penalty, the badly called play, the blocked punt - and most of these originate with the quarterback. Find a mistake-proof quarterback and you have this game won.
