A biography for Brian Floreshasn’t been written yet.
“I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.”
“There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.”
“Look, that rookie year you got a lot going on. You got to get a house, you got to get a car, you have to move to a whole new city. I mean, there are so many things that are going on.”
“With your bad plays, you turn around and you forget them, you move on from them.”
“You're going to have hardships, you're going to have a lot of good plays, you're going to have bad plays.”
“It's always good to win.”
“I think you can do that specifically with players - you can be tough on them, expect a lot from them, but not be somebody they despise.”
“I have a belief that there's good in people. I just do.”
“We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down.”
“You can't have a good play without good fundamentals.”
“Early is on time, on time is late and late is forgotten. Is it a rule? No. It's my personal mantra, and I feel like I have a lot of respect for time. I really do. It's precious. We shouldn't take it for granted.”
“I don't think about the future very often.”
“I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn't going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.”
“I had poor ball skills and I tackled decently.”
“I think I try to look out for the best interest of the players individually, the team.”
“I think you've got to have an internal motivation, an internal drive, a constant chip on your shoulder.”
“You have to make sacrifices if you want to do what you want to do in this world. If you really want something you make the sacrifice. If you don't, you don't.”
“I'm going to go into every game trying to win. That's always going to be my objective. I'm going to go into anything I do trying to win. I'm going to instill that in everybody I come across.”
“I'm very prepared for difficult moments.”
“Football brings people together, from all races, nationalities; so yeah, I think the NFL does a good job of that - a great job of that - and I'm sure they'll continue to do that.”