Mike Singletary

“I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.”

“You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.”

“I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don't care about them, and you don't try to understand them, then they're never going to hear what you have to say.”

“The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.”

“The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.”

“I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.”

“Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.”

“Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.”

“I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right.”

“You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.”

“Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.”