Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front-it's a powerful picture.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

When it's football season, I'm all football.

I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it.

We have to be realistic. If we don't win, life will continue.

You just witnessed an old-fashioned rump kicking.