When I got out of coaching, I had taught a class at the University of California, an extension class on football for fans. I was looking for tools. I was showing them films. I was going to write a textbook. Trip Hawkins came to me about making it a game for computers.

I've often said, 'If I had one drive to win a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny.' Snake was a lot cooler than I was. He was a perfect quarterback and a perfect Raider. When you think about the Raiders, you think about Ken Stabler.

If you play the video game, you become more interested and you want to know more about it. You want to read as much about it as you can, see it live and watch as many games as you can. If you're the type who wants to be as involved as you can in the sport, you're probably going to want to play 'Madden NFL.'

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

Since 1981, I've spent every Thanksgiving Day broadcasting a game, and it is one of my favorite days. You can say, 'Woe is me, I never get to be part of the tradition,' or you can say, 'Heck, we've got our own tradition, and it's pretty good.'

I'm not afraid of flying; I just fear I'm going to die. I think I'm - vulnerable. I admit it. I don't fly. I got claustrophobia. I don't go in high buildings. I don't do those things. I'm just myself, whatever that is.

The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

When the going gets tough, I'm not always sure what you do. I'm not saying that I know how to fix everything when the going gets tough, but I do know this: when the going goes tough, you don't quit. And you don't fold up. And you don't go in the other direction.

I was in New York on September 11 when those planes hit the World Trade Center. At the time, it seemed like it was a local thing. But three or four days later, by the time we drove across the country in the bus, we realized it wasn't a local thing. You could really feel the states become united. We became the United States of America.

I've always said winning's the great deodorant, and conversely, when you have a bad record, everything stinks, and everything starts to unravel, and everything falls apart.

I was introduced to the Turducken in New Orleans. And it wasn't Thanksgiving. Glenn at the Gourmet Butcher Block brought it by, and I had never heard of it or had seen one, and they put it in the booth, and it smelled so good that I had to taste it. And it was good. Then Thanksgiving came, and we got one in addition to the traditional turkey.

The road to Easy Street goes through the sewer.

Don't worry about the horse being blind, just load the wagon.

Self-praise is for losers. Be a winner. Stand for something. Always have class, and be humble.

I don't see why black should be a negative and it's not negative. The people perpetrating that particular thought are wrong.

Football is all about scoring goals.

There is a misconception over whether black ex-players can make successful managers.

I don't really eat biscuits.

Young English managers don't get enough time, young black managers aren't given enough time, there are a lot of reasons why.

Very much like a disease, we have to tackle the cause of racism, not the symptoms.

We should be the first to help disadvantaged people. What would happen if other countries decided to follow our example?

I don't differentiate between racism in football to racism in life so, therefore, as a football manager I knew that I would get racist abuse.

No, I never drink beer. I've never had a pint of lager in my life.

I would have loved to have been Henry VIII; I would have been big and fat and no one would have cared.