A biography for Rex Ryanhasn’t been written yet.
“I love that mentality: 'Hey - you know what? - you may beat us, but by God we're going to beat the hell out of you.' I'd rather go down that way, with people that will go down swinging than, 'OK, let's accept losing.'”
“Coming here to the New York Jets, where my father once coached and was part of the Super Bowl III staff, is fantastic. I look around at the facilities and the people they have in place and see a first-class organization. I'm just proud to be part of it.”
“Everybody in the league has someone up in the box, or guys on the sidelines trying to steal calls. It's just like baseball. If you've got guys who can do, you do it.”
“I never realized how similar that I am to Tom Brady. mean, the obvious physical appearance would be the first thing. The fact that he's married to a supermodel? Hello? Yeah, I'm also married to a supermodel.”
“I'm just gonna be myself and that's been good enough for me throughout my life.”
“If a guy makes a mistake or drops a ball or does whatever, yeah it makes me mad, but I don't get on that person.”
“So much of school, you have to write, but I just struggled. I couldn't help it.”
“There's no way I'm going to be second fiddle.”
“I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that's the guy. He'll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there's no coach I respect more than him.”
“I'll stand by everything I've ever said.”
“I've been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I'm sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.”
“We have won five Super Bowls as a family, but we want to win our sixth at some point. And I want to win it as a head coach, because that has never been done in our family.”
“I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.”
“I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.”
“I like competing against the very best.”
“You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.”
“I love coaching football, don't get me wrong. But I just love baseball.”
“How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.”
“My goal is to win a Super Bowl. It's not to just win X number of games.”
“I was a terrible student.”