We just knew that if we were going to do it, we would have to do it on the road. Some way, we had to turn their house into house.

The three teams that won (the Super Bowl) overrule us in a lot of things, but we were the first Patriots to go. That was a special year, 1985.

We were all of the mind that if you took care of one game at a time and played hard, anything was possible. I'm not going to tell you we knew we were going to go to the Super Bowl because I don't know that you ever know that, but as the season went along you got the feeling that something special was happening.

Everyone and their mother was there (from New England). We must have had 20,000 fans.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labour of peace.