“You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not li...” — Bud Grant Quote

You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.

Being cold is not debilitating. We learned that from the Eskimos. They could be cold, and they could function. And you could function better when you're cold than when you're hot. I mean, hot, you become overheated, and, you know, you lose energy. If you're cold, you could function being cold. Now, frozen is different.

The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.

If you talk, you only repeat something that you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something that you don't know.

At the end of the day you never know what team still wants what player. You just never know with the draft.

I'm working on a new novel, in its 3rd draft, but it's hard to write while doing 7th Heaven.

After I graduated from Tuskegee with a masters in nuclear engineering, the draft was on so I signed up for ROTC. I figured if I had to go into the military, I'd rather go in as an officer.

Let go of the idea that somehow you can outsmart a first draft. Because I have never met anybody who can.

Some writers sit down without a thought of what they are going to say, and they go through draft after draft.