Football has made me the person I am today. I'm not a quitter because of football. It has made me accountable.

You should have seen John's face when I tossed him the ball back to him with Butkus coming.

Next fall can't come soon enough. I've not seen as much optimism for an upcoming season since John's been here. There's a lot of work left to be done. But if everyone does their part, it could be a very interesting season.

Well, we were beaten by a very good football team today. They are very solid on both sides of the ball.

We want to qualify for the final playing a good and better football today (Thursday).

Then somewhere along the line — and it couldn't have been until late in the season — we realized we had a chance to do something no one else had done: To win all the games. That became important, but if we had to lose, we wanted to make sure that it wasn't in the Super Bowl. If we ended 16-1, the season would have been a failure.