[4][5] Once, when asked how he got up for a goal-line stand, he responded with a Yiddish word to describe the process, saying: "You gotta suck it up from the kishkes.
[7] During his pro career, he worked as an assistant coach of the Florida International University wrestling team in the off-season.
[12] He was also inducted, alongside a host of other former Miami Dolphins players, into the St. Thomas University (FL) Sports Hall of Fame in 2015.
[13] In 1984, while playing pro football by day, Newman enrolled in the night division of the University of Miami School of Law.
He retired in 2022, after serving for decades at the Richard E. Gerstein Criminal Justice Building alongside his bailiff and former Dolphins teammate Tony Nathan.