Quotes on Nfl

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

Football is a vocation and an opportunity for ministry. But it's not a life.

The spirit, the will to win, and the will to excel are the things that endure. These qualities are so much more important than the events that occur.

Coaches have to watch for what they don't want to see and listen to what they don't want to hear.

The only football players in my time were fellows who really loved to play football. They were not in it for the money. There wasn't much money there. They would have played football for nothing.

People look at me and see a calm, cool guy on the sidelines and I want them to know that my Christian faith affects my coaching and everything I do.

In my very first NFL game, I completed my first pass to Hall of Fame running back Marshall Faulk.

The one thing that I know is that you win with good people.

It's about us getting ready to play. It's not about the other team. We'll beat ourselves before they beat us. That's always our approach.

Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.

I hope our hopes and aspirations are bigger than setting records.

The true competitors, though, are the ones who always play to win.

To me it was never about what I accomplished on the football field, it was about the way I played the game.

If I can't get the captains to respond appropriately and show the leadership I expect, how is anyone else going to respond?

It's the journey that matters. Learning is more important than the test. Practice well, and the games will take care of themselves.

At some point in life's journey, professionally and personally, we have to be able to trust our preparation.

I found that while life drags on when you're losing, it marches on when you're winning.

We spent our whole married life in the ultra-competitive world of professional football, Lauren and I had always tried to view it through God's eyes. As much fun as it was to be winning, we tried not to get caught up in it. We knew that our family life and our faith walk were more important.

And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.

Watch the film, not the stopwatch.

You know it's only 50 miles from Grand River to Canton, but it took me 67 years to travel that distance.