Every organization is looking for... a guy who can be the coach for the next 10, 15 years. That's what they want. I get that.
I probably won't coach again. I really know what it takes to coach... the time necessary, the emotion... to do it correctly. Unless I was 100 percent sure I wanted to commit, I don't think you're being fair to anybody.
I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.
If I hire a coach, he's the coach and will run what he knows and is comfortable with. Will it be part of the process? Absolutely. But I am not going to interfere that way as the president.
When you walk in the door at Green Bay and see the murals of all the football players you knew as a fan, it can get to you. I grew up being Bart Starr and Paul Hornung on the playground.
I was a business major in college, so I knew economics.
It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.
I left Green Bay for Seattle in 1999. I wonder what would have happened had I stayed in Green Bay, where I've got one of the best quarterbacks of all time in his prime.
It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.
People ask me often, 'Why did you leave Green Bay? You had the best quarterback, you were going good and all that.' But I've always been one for challenges. Try to build something up, try something new, challenge myself.
I always could go into restaurants in Chicago, and nobody would throw anything at me. There are people there who might not like me, but I think they respect me.
I'm a football coach. It seems the league is cyclical and hiring young guys... but experience in the NFL still means a heck of a lot.
I had to see how I'd feel about not working, and what I've learned about myself is I miss it.
I never had anything planned, like, 'When I'm 40 I'll be coaching here.' A number of people in our profession have done that, but my thing was always, wherever I was coaching, to work hard, do the best you can, and if it happens, it happens.
I took a leave of absence for a year to coach at San Francisco State under Vic Rowen, fully intending to go back to high school.
Coaches who want to coach in the NFL usually don't go to the high school level for 10 years. They know where they want to go early.
If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.
You put a tremendous amount of energy, your whole body and soul into something, and you need to win once in a while. Otherwise, it becomes too hard.
