Quotes from Mike Holmgren

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.

We still have our home in Seattle. The kids are there. The grandkids are there.

I've always wanted to buy a bookstore. You know, sell some of those muffins and a little coffee. I don't care if we make any money. I don't want to lose a lot of money, but we could visit with people and get books.

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.

The fans are very, very important in the team's success. Instead of acting up, you're cheering for the team.

The great ones don't come cheap.

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.

It's special for me to coach the team Lombardi coached.

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.

I think I'm a pretty good coach, but there are a lot of good coaches, a lot of young coaches.

The important thing, I think, going into any organization, is that all of the principles, all of the decision-makers are pointed in the same direction, with the same motives, the same desires, and then you have a chance.

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.

The teams that are successful from ownership to management to coaching - there is a singleness of purpose. There's enough credit for everyone. No one gets territorial. It's just good - and it shows on the field.

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.

You've got to find the quarterback. Once you find the quarterback, you can fix the other things.

I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.

My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.

If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.

When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.

I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.

Everyone has to understand what the role is - what the role of the player is, the role of the coach is. You're hired to do something. You're paid to do something.

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 was teaching history and coaching both tennis and track along with football. I felt like I had the best of both worlds. I was pretty comfortable. I thought I would be doing what I was doing for the rest of my life.

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.