Bob McNair Quotes
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Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.
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We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.
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The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.
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As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
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Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.
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When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
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If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.
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We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers.
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I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
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I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.
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If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.
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I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.
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Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
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At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.
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I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.
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If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
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I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.
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If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
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We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.
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Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.
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Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.
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We're about winning and accountability.
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Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.
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The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.