Herm Edwards

“When I wake up, I don't worry about why the mountain is there. I just start climbing.”

“I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.”

“People are going to take shots at you for everything you did bad, and they forget about all the good things you did. They do it to everyone. They're going to do it to me, they've done it to all of them. They did it to Tom Landry. Are you kidding me? Tom Landry? With the fedora? Come on. They did it to Tom Landry.”

“The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.”

“If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.”

“Coaches? They can talk. I tell them: 'Just make sure before you open your mouth you've researched what you're about to say. Don't just say stuff. And if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.'”

“As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.”

“I'm big on integrity.”

“College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.”

“'Jim Thorpe - All American' influenced me as a young kid.”

“The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!”

“My father gave me discipline.”

“Believe in what you do and keep working hard and you can't take what people say personally, because if you do it'll eat at you.”

“I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a choice.”

“If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.”

“I'm a neat freak.”

“I was a bit of a rebel when I was young.”

“You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.”

“I am a head coach in the NFL today because of the opportunity the Coaching Fellowship provided me. The program is really the thing that jump-starts your career.”

“I used to tell people I was 6-foot-4. And with that afro, I was.”