A biography for Mike Holmgrenhasn’t been written yet.
“My football do-over is when I went to Seattle and had both jobs as coach and general manager.”
“The teams that are successful from ownership to management to coaching - there is a singleness of purpose. There's enough credit for everyone. No one gets territorial. It's just good - and it shows on the field.”
“We still have our home in Seattle. The kids are there. The grandkids are there.”
“I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'”
“Every organization is looking for... a guy who can be the coach for the next 10, 15 years. That's what they want. I get that.”
“When I was coaching, I was out there, and you're doing press conferences, and the fans see a lot more of the head coach than they do either the general manager or the president.”
“I left Green Bay for Seattle in 1999. I wonder what would have happened had I stayed in Green Bay, where I've got one of the best quarterbacks of all time in his prime.”
“I was raised, right or wrong, you make a decision and you don't quit. You fight your way through it; that's what you did.”
“After being on the field for so long and feeling like you have some control over the outcome or what's happening out there, now I'm upstairs, and I have no control over anything. I'm working through that.”
“I'm a high school history teacher who got lucky.”
“If you keep working at something and stay with it, eventually good things will happen to you.”
“I still love Colt McCoy, but I will always try and do what I think we have to do to make the team better and to improve ourselves.”
“I'm very proud of the fact that we dispelled the myth about black athletes not being able to survive in Green Bay.”
“I always could go into restaurants in Chicago, and nobody would throw anything at me. There are people there who might not like me, but I think they respect me.”
“I probably won't coach again. I really know what it takes to coach... the time necessary, the emotion... to do it correctly. Unless I was 100 percent sure I wanted to commit, I don't think you're being fair to anybody.”
“When you walk in the door at Green Bay and see the murals of all the football players you knew as a fan, it can get to you. I grew up being Bart Starr and Paul Hornung on the playground.”
“It doesn't matter what you know if you can't teach it.”
“I had to see how I'd feel about not working, and what I've learned about myself is I miss it.”