This is really a lot like the tsunami on a smaller scale, ... Rebuilding is going to take not weeks, not months, not years. Two years? No. Ten years? Maybe.

I've said this over the last several years: It can happen to anyone. It really can. I'm not immune to it. I think that the organization and myself have a great relationship, and they can be honest with me because I've always been honest. But that could happen.

If you grew up in a household with a football coach who looks like a drill sergeant, you would think you would be tough.

And having a strong family, you know we've lost some members of our family and had some setbacks, but I think a good family and kids all those things I thought at one time... you got to be kidding me... Those things are so important they enable you to go on.

I give credit to Cleveland and give credit to Detroit,

It's devastating. The Gulf Coast is gone.