Dan Quinn

“Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.”

“As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.”

“The term we use on our team is 'reset': when you go through, whether it's a negative play or a negative drive, and you get your next opportunity - not focusing on the past, but going back into your attack mode.”

“Part of what we talk about is, toughness is a talent.”

“For me, it was watching the New York Giants growing up, with Bill Parcells and Lawrence Taylor and that whole crew coming up through the '80s. And then, as I moved on to college, I thought I'd want to coach for sure.”

“I've been around some really good guys from different teams.”

“Iron sharpens iron, and that's one man getting another guy ready to play.”

“We don't spend so much time on the opponent that we forget it's really about us.”

“When you have too much scheme, sometimes it's hard to work on all the things you have to, and you can make effort the top priority of your game.”

“At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.”

“That attitude and toughness that we want to play with, that, to me, is the most critical thing.”

“We want to let our play be the judges.”

“The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward.”

“I do know some missed tackles usually that comes down to leverage, and I know those are correctable and fixable.”

“I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.”

“We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'”