Getty Trump: I'd bring Mike Ditka on board

Anti-establishment presidential candidate Donald Trump wants winners involved with his campaign and potential administration, and he's open to recruiting from the football field.

“I’d love to have Mike involved in some capacity. Why? Because Mike knows how to win and our politicians don’t,” Trump said about Hall of Fame coach Mike Ditka “Nobody messed with Mike.”


Trump was speaking to Chicago Sun-Times' Michael Sneed Wednesday about support the former Chicago Bears coach had given him the day before.

"I do like Donald Trump. I think he, sometimes he's gotta think a little bit more before he says things, but I think he's on the right track,"Ditka said.

“He’s a great guy. A total winner. A totally great guy and a total winner. And I am honored to hear such nice things said about me that are totally unsolicited!” Trump responded. “I’ve met him briefly over the years, but I am a big fan of his toughness and we need more of that in our country!”

Ditka has toyed with the political arena before, saying that his biggest mistake was not running for the Illinois Republican Senate nomination is 2004. If he had won, he would have faced now President Barack Obama.

“Biggest mistake I’ve ever made. Not that I would have won, but I probably would have and he wouldn’t be in the White House," he told the Dickinson Press in 2013.

Trump could already be building out his ideal cabinet. Earlier this summer the businessman said he’d welcome Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s leadership on his cabinet if he was chosen as president.

“I’d love that because she really is somebody that knows what’s happening,” Trump said. “And she’s a special person. And I think people know that. And she’s got a following that’s unbelievable.”

On Sunday, Palin said she'd make a great Secretary of Energy, but said as soon as she got the position she'd abolish the department.

"I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby," Palin said on CNN's "State of the Union." "And if I were head of that, I would get rid of it. And I would let the states start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries and the people who are affected by the developments within their space."