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The fewer rules a coach has, the fewer rules there are for players to break.

The great ones don't come cheap.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

The highest standards of conduct must be met by everyone in the NFL because it is a privilege to represent the NFL, not a right.

The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this earth. It's not going be, "It was a great platform. It was great to win the Super Bowl." But, really and truly what you're going to leave this earth is the influence on others.

The key to his success? He's just faster than the guys chasing him.

The key to winning is poise under stress.

The lessons I learned in Vietnam and in the NFL reinforced one another: teamwork, sacrifice, responsibility, accountability, and leadership.

The last time I saw this many doctors was in 1982 at the NFL Combine. They flew me in, put me in a nice hotel and took great care of me. All you have to do is just pick up the phone and call P.A.S.T. and they will do the rest for you. I am very proud of the P.A.S.T. program.

The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

The guys who stick around are the smartest guys and the guys who are the most self-driven. You have to have drive. The coaches can only take you so far. You have to want to learn and work.

The Moss of old is back!

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

The one thing about the music business is that there is no rulebook. It's not like the NFL or something where there's four downs to get ten yards or baseball where it's three strikes and you're out.

The NFL, and I've played a lot of years for them, and they have a lot of restrictions on their players, they have restrictions on their licensees, they have restrictions on everything.

The NFL is in premium interest time, in the fourth quarter [of the business year] when you have Thanksgiving, Christmas, and that's when we try to get the most decision-makers in front of the television, in the fourth quarter.

The NFL sort of reminds me of the tobacco companies, pre-'90s, when they kept saying, 'No, there is no link between smoking and damage to your health'.

The NFL acknowledges that repetitive trauma to the head in football... can cause a permanent, disabiling injury to the brain.

The NFL today has bigger, stronger, bodies than ever, moving faster than ever, hitting a stationary object harder than ever before - so the physics of the hit have changed.

There comes a time when you have to stand up and be counted.

The only thing Native Americans ever did better than the rest of us is spirituality. Of course, that's everything, isn't it?

There is no defense against a perfect pass. I can throw the perfect pass.

There are two things in New York, euphoria and disaster.

There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

There is no way that I could have survived if I had not changed my style of play.

There is no substitute for guts.

There's a difference between making incremental improvements and making sweeping changes that take you away from your core values.

There's no class to manage people. There's no class to teach on how to handle millions. There's no class to teach us how to manage time.

There's nothing bigger than being asked to perform at the Super Bowl.

There is no primer for being an NFL owner. It is learn-as-you-go.

There's always a chance. Somebody has got to want me, and if they don't want me, then what? I want to play. I want to do what I want to do.

There's no fast track, no easy track, especially from where I came from. You try to take the most of it and learn from it and hope others learn from it. That's what it is about.

There's no thrill like throwing a touchdown pass.

There's two kinds of coaches, them that's fired and them that's gonna be fired.

There will be many failures sprinkled among the successes you enjoy.

The Rose Bowl is the only bowl I've ever seen that I didn't have to clean.

There were a lot of big games. But I think one of the biggest was one that will go down as one of the biggest upsets in playoff history. We were 15-point underdogs going into Miami and upset them. That was a big one.

These Seattle Seahawks wide receivers have been called pedestrian, they've been called no-namers, but they always come up with the big play.

The secret to success is good leadership, and good leadership is all about making the lives of your team members or workers better.

The speed will increase and the players will be better, but also the players around you will be a lot better. It all cancels itself out.

The secret is to work less as individuals and more as a team. As a coach, I play not my eleven best, but my best eleven.

The swimming community is really small, but why can't it be as big as the NBA or the NFL?

They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.

The way football is being played currently, that I have seen, it's dangerous. It's dangerous and it could impact their long-term mental health. You only get one brain.

They're willing to let Matt sit and wait until they believe he's ready and I can't do the best I'm capable of doing. I'm completely comfortable with that.

They were unwillingly to give 100 percent if they didn't personally think it was important. What you don't understand is the champions know it's all important.

This is totally unexpected. I thought I'd be in the NBA or the NFL. I never thought baseball. It's kind of like a surprise. I'm happy it happened.

They'll score if they can just get into the endzone.

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

Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.