Bill Cowher

To be recognized for making the contributions I did, along with the others who are part of the Hall of Honor, it really is humbling. Particularly when you grow up in Pittsburgh and know what the Steelers mean to the city. To me, as a little boy growing up watching the Steelers, this means a lot to me. It's special.

The one thing you don't want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

I coached Derrick Thomas for the first three years of his career. He was a special player.

Dan Rooney was my boss, my father, my friend, my mentor.

To be taught to coach by Marty Schottenheimer, to be able to go to an organization like the Steelers. I came there at 34, probably brash, ready to set my niche.

Antonio Brown is, if not the best receiver in the league, one of the best.

Le'Veon Bell, as we have seen through the years when healthy, is such a dynamic player not just out of the backfield, but as a receiver.

I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you've prepared for all week all of a sudden isn't there.

I've been very blessed to be surrounded by some very special people.

Keith Butler is a very good football coach.

I had the best job in the NFL.

When you talk about tradition, and organizations, the Steelers are one of the best in the NFL.

You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.

I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.

As a kid you were proud to say you were from Pittsburgh.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

The goal is to hit your stride, stay in the hunt and be playing your best football in December.

Tom Coughlin has done a great job and is an excellent coach.

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

I find most video games too complicated to play.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

If I'm Colin Kaepernick I have to prove myself. I would say, 'I would love the opportunity to show that I am a championship-winning quarterback again, and I understand that I am not going to be handed anything and that I would love the opportunity to come back.' If he said that it would open the ears of a lot of teams.

I like to dabble in a lot of things.

I think when you do anything at a high level, it's very difficult to just stop and do nothing.

I'm very comfortable at CBS.

I've probably watched more basketball games than anything.

I've always wanted to walk into a hotel, sit at a piano and play 'Piano Man.'

Don't get me wrong; I miss the live elements of coaching.

I like the ability to wake up and say, 'Well, now what are we going to do?'

I've had a couple of people - prominent coaches - walk into an office, shut the door and say, 'What's it like, not coaching?' They're scared. They're scared not to have that. And I'll tell them, 'You know, it's different. You're not going to replace coaching. But there's some normality that's out there, and that's also kind of refreshing.'

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

I don't think running backs have ever been under-valued.

I think a guy like Saquon Barkley is a very special back, and where the was drafted was very appropriate.

A guy like Saquon Barkley is really a three-down player. You see the size, the speed, the quickness, the elusiveness, the power. He's a unique individual.

There's so much more involved with the game than just sitting there, looking at the numbers and saying, 'OK, these are my percentages, then I'm going to do it this way,' because that one time it doesn't work could cost your team a football game, and that's the thing a head coach has to live with, not the professor.

The ozone is breaking down more and more each year; that's a fact. That being said, we have to be more conscious of the sun and what it can do to your skin.

As a quarterback, you have to have a short memory. Don't lose your confidence, and stay within yourself. Don't try to do too much.

I just love the Buffalo market. Say what you want about their fans, it'll be December and they've been out of the playoffs for a month. But if there's a December game with snow, there's still going to be 72,000 people in those stands. One of the most passionate, loyal groups of fans in the National Football League, bar none.

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount of money and do it halfway. It would be a total commitment, not part-time.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

When you think about a Hall of Fame player, you think about someone who impacted the game, someone you had to game plan for.

It is a lot easier to kick off a turf field than it is off a grass field.

I think the bottom line is wins and losses. That is probably the most important stat to look at.

I wanted to be my'self and I wanted the play'ers to take pride in ev'ery'thing they did. We rep'resent the Pitts'burgh Steel'ers but we also rep'resent the city of Pitts'burgh. You're a leader and a role model, whether you want to be or not.

We won a lot of games, we brought play'off games to the city of Pitts'burgh, we won play'off games.

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.