I've always just tried to treat people with respect, build relationships with players and coaches... build a trust.

- Chuck Pagano

When you get chemo, some people get a lot of sores in their mouth and even their esophagus, so they chew on ice; thank God that didn't happen with me.

- Chuck Pagano

You have some dark days and dark moments going through chemo and things like that.

- Chuck Pagano

If you don't have your health, you don't have anything.

- Chuck Pagano

I've always been a religious person.

- Chuck Pagano

I grew up in a football family, on the sideline. I was a waterboy. It was kinda something I was around my whole life.

- Chuck Pagano

With expectations, when you throw that stuff out there, when you put a bunch of pressure on yourself to reach those goals, you don't do anything different. You just keep working to get better.

- Chuck Pagano

When you have things taken away, you promise you'll never take anything for granted ever again.

- Chuck Pagano

We have to know that nothing is promised, nothing is guaranteed, especially tomorrow.

- Chuck Pagano

You're defined by how you play the game, not by the game itself.

- Chuck Pagano

I am the luckiest man in the world.

- Chuck Pagano

When I was a kid growing up, my dad being a football coach, he asked the same question of all the assistants that he ever hired: 'Is your goal to be a head football coach?'

- Chuck Pagano

My vision is that I'm living to see two more daughters get married, dance at their weddings and then lift the Lombardi Trophy several times.

- Chuck Pagano

If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.

- Chuck Pagano

I've got so many things coming across my desk right now that are nonfootball related, I can't stand it.

- Chuck Pagano

If I can encourage and get somebody to get through what they're dealing with, their set of circumstances, that's the right thing to do.

- Chuck Pagano

I know that there are coaches who do end up sleeping on the sofa in their office.

- Chuck Pagano