Explore Quotations, Proverbs & Sayings

«The guy's going to the Hall of Fame, ... We might as well induct him now.»

«Peyton is a special guy, and we were fortunate to have some real good people around him on offense and defense, ... It's not anything like Alex Smith is facing in San Francisco. Playing quarterback in the NFL is the hardest job in professional sports. It is very, very difficult for a rookie to come in and do well initially - almost impossible, really.»

«It was just a mild sprain of his MCL, and he is day-to-day, ... That ought to put that to rest for at least two or three minutes until someone asks another question about it.»

«If for some reason Matt plays, then I don't feel like our players will worry about it, ... For him to have some of the experiences that he has had, whether it is preseason or late last year or last Sunday, and having some success with that, it gives everyone a comfort zone when he is in there. Nobody goes, 'I have to do more' or 'We've got to do this.' They just keep playing.»

«What does the NFL stand for? Not For Long if you don't play the way you are supposed to play or coach the way you are supposed to coach,»

«Every week they are going to give you some un-scouted looks, ... They are going to give you things that you haven't seen before. They are going to give you different fronts, different blitzes and different coverage concepts. He is very innovative.»

«In the cover two, cornerbacks squat at seven or eight yards, but the rules now say you have to hit them within five yards, ... You just have to be more conscious of when you hit them. You always teach, 'Hit them at five yards and carry them for a while. Find out how far they're going to let you carry them. Let them call it, and then we'll worry about it, you know what I mean?' You have to find out what the parameters are going to be. This year, early at least, the parameters are going to be five yards. They're going to strictly enforce it.»

«[And what can he teach cornerbacks who are used to grabbing the receiver's jersey at the seven or eight-yard mark?] You've got to teach them to have a short memory, ... So they can get to the next down.»

«[Mora, after seven years as a 49ers assistant, returned to San Francisco for his first NFL game.] When the schedule came out and I saw that, I laughed, ... I knew everyone would try to make that game about me, which was silly. Hey, I've played my dad four times. Now that's something. It's an awful day, win or lose. Someone in the Mora family is guaranteed to lose, and that's an awful day.»

«We just love playing at home, ... We were talking about how sometimes on the road we come out a little flat and he said, 'You know, with our crowd, we could be asleep 30 seconds before we go on the field and because of the energy, we would still get pumped up.' So that's how our guys feel about playing at home.»