American - Coach | August 3, 1925 -
Age is inevitable. Aging isn't.
Marv Levy
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When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
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I was enamored with Charles Dickens as a kid, and his names blew me away.
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Experience should be a plus as long as it doesn't become complacency. If you say, 'We're not going to change; we didn't do it that way before,' then you've become too old.
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If you start thinking of the Super Bowl championship as your motivation, you are going to miss the trees for the forest or the forest for the trees. I never could understand that one.
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Teaching is very important. The nature of your personality isn't that important. Lombardi was very extraverted, very bombastic. Landry very quiet, reserved. Both were great teachers and great coaches.
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If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.
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Absolutely everything undergoes evolvement - whether it's technology, journalism, the NFL, medicine.
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The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
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I'm hoping to get started on a new novel.
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I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
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When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
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