I was going to give them a first, ... Obviously, I didn't start at a first, but I was going to give them a first. I had made my mind up and it had already been approved so we were going to go with that regardless.

He was the star of that game, ... At that scrimmage, he did everything. He substantiated everything I believed in that he was capable of doing and he did it.

What happened in every one of those cases was, we had the guy rated higher and they slipped through. And you say to yourself, 'If we don't take this guy, we're stupid. Let's pick him.' I don't know if that's the case with Whitticker, but it looks like they've hit on him.

When I got there, this was the worst team in professional football.

What that told me was that I now had a chance to get Brett Favre as a player.

It happened real quickly, we were sitting there hammering, hammering, hammering and I kept saying, 'I'm not going any higher than a two,' ... I needed them to say something to me and they said the words: 'We can't let him go unless we get a one.'

From that point on, I spent four or five days a week talking to Ken Herock trying to somehow massage it and get this so first of all we don't lose him and secondly this can be an eventuality. They wanted to get rid of him and I just didn't want that thing to get cold.

Child birth is one of the most natural and ancient things to occur, and the fact that 95 percent (of babies) are delivered in the hospital, and a huge percent are C-sections, is rather telling to our detachment from the process.

I feel very ecstatic what he accomplished, ... He's the third-leading passer all-time, he's thrown for 50,000 yards, he's the only three-time MVP; he's worth a lot more than a first-round draft choice. I really don't care how they recognize it, but I have to use that Bum Phillips line: I don't know if it's the best, but it won't take long to call the roll.

I thought he did a heck of a job for his clients, ... He works hard and earns what he's gotten.

We want to do this ourselves in the most comfortable setting we can think of - to be in each moment together and not be persuaded by a hospital's agenda.