Bruce Arians

“When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.”

“There's not one moment from my journey that I'd want to change. Everything happens for a reason.”

“You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.”

“We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.”

“To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.”

“How do you stay married 47 years? You are probably apart 20 of them. You get fired, move to another job. She would raise the kids and come six months later. Just start all over again. New romance.”

“I felt like Cleveland deserved a winner. They have the most loyal fans in the world. I just thought it was a goal of mine. Every time that job came open I tried to get it.”

“I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.”

“Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.”

“And opportunity doesn't always come. I thought I should have had a head-coaching opportunity a long time ago. Called plays in the Super Bowl. Won the game. No phone calls.”

“You can die at any moment doing anything. I mean, so why not do what you love to do. If I die on game day, have a drink. Celebrate.”

“I think Chris Godwin is going to be close to a 100-catch guy, especially because I think he can play in the slot.”

“The most important relationship a head coach has on his team isn't with the other coaches, the owner or the general manager. It's with the quarterback. He's the one who runs the show on the field; He's the ultimate extension of his coach. If there isn't a high level of mutual trust between them, both coach and quarterback will be doomed.”

“I think all the great ones have it. They just have a will they can put on their teammates. Refuse to lose mentality. When you step in the huddle with any of those guys, you're so calm that he knows what the heck he's doing and he can get the job done.”

“At 30 I thought I knew everything, and 30 years later I didn't know anything.”

“I was allergic to milk as a child. My older brother would always get a big glass and drink it in front of me all the time.”

“When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.”

“I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.”

“I loved the three years I had in Cleveland, especially that playoff run with Timmy Couch and Kelly Holcomb. And obviously those great years in Pittsburgh.”

“I've always loved Cleveland.”