Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.
All my life, I've had these flashbacks, these dreams, nightmares, daymares, like visions, where I relive certain plays. Only the bad plays. I see them over and over, as if somebody's rewinding a tape and forcing me to watch.
I never had a bad night in my life, but I've had a few bad mornings.
So instead of the Super Bowl, we've got the Stupor Bowl. Two once-proud teams, now 0-4 and stumbling through the season like zombies. And if you think the Cowboys are bad (and they are), the Redskins are so bad that every few plays you have to put a mirror under thieir noses to make sure they're still breathing.
If a football player has a bad game, he's allowed to do that because he plays once or twice a week. With fighting, it's once every few months.
It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays.
I've had quite a few plays where I've just dominated the guy across from me.
It's my job to get us in good plays, or more importantly, out of bad plays. That's what I did.
I'd like to think I am a good coach but I've called bad plays. I've coached bad practices. I've made bad substitution choices.
It's too easy to underestimate your audience. But it's not rocket science: bad plays don't get people on seats; good plays do.
I was my class playwright and I wrote plays set in villages with kings and chiefs.My plays were about treason and betrayals. If they were influenced by Macbeth, they were also influenced by Nigerian plays I had seen and Village Headmaster, a television drama series I had watched as a child.
I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.
A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.
I had done plays all my life. Many, many, many plays, off-Broadway plays.
Somebody asked me recently, 'Have you done a lot of plays?' I thought hang on. I used to do nothing but plays. I've been very fortunate that on several occasions I've had jobs where I didn't want to be anywhere else in the world whatever you had to offer - however much money you've got.
Since I was a small child, I was always writing either poems or plays... plays in which I had the starring part.