A biography for Jon Grudenhasn’t been written yet.
“If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist.”
“Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes.”
“You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.”
“If I ever come back and coach, I'm never huddling again!”
“I miss high school football.”
“It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.”
“All I really have in my life is my family and football. That's about it.”
“A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.”
“Some people feel pressure; some people don't.”
“You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone.”
“I love the AFC West.”
“I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.”
“I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.”
“Inches matter. That's why they measure first downs. That's why they have a crew down there with those chains.”
“I get excited when we make a play. I get excited when we make a first down.”
“Mariota is special in a lot of ways. He's a dynamic dual threat on the field, and he is humble - no-nonsense, full of character - off the field.”
“When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.”
“I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.”
“You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.”
“I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people.”