I didn't make the Pro Bowl until my seventh year I think in the NFL. We continually got better.
The only improvement I know in football is through work, it is the only way for the team to grow.
I think that what we did in 2015 as a team was phenomenal, and I think in, now, 2019, we have similar players but a lot of different players.
Whether we win 60 games or not, you build your habits back and get better that way. It may not be 60 wins, but you get better as a team.
When hired three years ago, I willingly accepted the challenge of leading the Bulls back to the type of team this city richly deserves. I'm proud of the fact that each year the team has taken another step toward an NBA championship, and played with intense pride and determination.
In my time here, I've seen that Borussia Dortmund has developed steadily. We have become German champions and played in the Champions League.
There's always things you want to get better at and learn from but that's something that's quite hard to instil in players.
In football, any team can still improve, in every sense.
There will always be someone who can pay more than BVB. But Dortmund have made a lot of progress during my time here.
There's been so many stories throughout the league where teams have started off poorly and ended up in the Finals. Or teams starting out great and not making the playoffs.
I can't tell you how much you gain, how much progress you can make, by working together as a team, by helping one another. You get much more done that way. If there's anything the Steelers of the '70s epitomized, I think it was that teamwork.
I love practice. It is when a coach exercises the most control over the improvement of his or her team.
I've always liked the history of the game of football, and then, when you mention the Cleveland Browns to me, it brings back vast memories, and I can't just wait to try to build and establish this thing and just move this thing forward.
There are a lot of young players here right now, and these guys are going to eventually learn as they go. Next year we can't use that as an excuse that we had so many young players on the team.
Every player wants to see the game grow and flourish so it would be great to be able to help do that by achieving something very special.
The role I play is defending, so you've got to be doing that first and foremost. The better you can get it will help the team and help you progress, and I work on that every day.
When I went to AC Milan, they were four points away from the relegation zone, and by the end of the season, we were just one goal away from being in the Europa League.
I can say that hands down from being in this business 32 years; we're going to be much better than we were last year just because there's eight new players that now have experience and Palacios will be healthy.
True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.
If you don't learn, especially if you are not playing well, then you are not going to move forward as a team.
In the regular season, they all only count for one win or one loss. But for a team or coaching staff, these are tests, and you want to see where you're at.
After spending so much money Liverpool were a lot further behind the leaders when Houllier left than before he arrived
But the manager's bought wisely - the players who've come in have taken us on to a different level and the players who won promotion have also performed at the top level, so long may it continue.
I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
We are a much improved ball club: now we lose in extra innings!
