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“I don't need validation from people at all.”
“One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.”
“I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.”
“When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.”
“The world of football has changed. 'We're going to start a freshman quarterback!' 'Oooh really?!' That was taboo. It's not a shock anymore.”
“Remember, a receiver can motion wherever, run wherever he wants to on the field, you can't get your hands on the guy and there is a lot of room. When you are a corner, you are playing to the boundary, which is your friend.”
“I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.”
“What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.”
“When it gets going bad and it gets going to where all these things are happening around you, the thing that stands out most is your character. You have to make sure you keep your character and your wits about you, because at the end of the day, it might be bad for a little while, but if you're a good coach it all works out.”
“You play to win the game.”
“At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.”
“I believe in giving people an opportunity to do their jobs.”
“Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.”
“When you put pressure on the quarterback, everything looks a lot better.”
“To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.”
“I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.”
“Was I hurt sometimes? Yeah. But not to the point where I couldn't play. I think we all go through it. Some guys escape it. Some guys don't. There's no secret formula.”
“When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.”
“My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father - discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.”
“You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.”