"Now George, I want you to listen to me, just like you did when we were freshman at Whittier College.

A team is not finished when it is defeated. It is finished when it quits.

Secondly, always remember that the 49ers may hate you, but those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

What you have to do, George--Bebe, put some ice in that tumbler, there's a good man--what you have to do is give 'em a sword. And then stick it in, and twist it with relish. If they were in your position, they'd do the same thing.

Now I know there have been plays in the past that didn't work out so well. I can see clearly now... that I was wrong in not acting more decisively and more forthrightly in dealing with your last game, for instance.

But those plays, well, they're filed away in boxes now...when I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned."