Jeff Fisher Quotes
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The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They're not actors. They're players.
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Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.
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I've been a Rams fan for so long.
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It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.
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My kids are athletic, but they don't run.
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I'm just really appreciative of the loyal fans in St. Louis who just lost their team. It's not an easy situation to go through. On the other hand, we have to move forward.
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Our teams always play hard.
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You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.
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I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.
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Typically, there's about 20, 25 percent turnover every year. So, every three or four years with the exception of, as is the case with the Patriots and the quarterback, you have a roster turnover.
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Chris Johnson was outstanding early.
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Our philosophy here, guys, is we're going to work as long as we have to to get the work done. I'm not one that wants the coaches to compete to see who can get in the earliest, who stays the latest, who passes themselves on the way into work in the morning.
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I'm a head coach. I'm not a politician, an activist, or an expert on societal issues.
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I guess it's sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they're in this country, would take a shot at our military.
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From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.
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It's unfortunate that sometimes the personal things affect the business.
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Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.
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You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.
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There's obviously a push to protect the quarterback, but you have to give the defensive players a chance. All of the quarterback has to do is pull the ball, and he's a runner. How's the defender going to know if the ball is pulled or not?
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Some of the decisions that you make are not permanent.
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You only have so much time in a day.
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I think everyone at some point in their career would like the opportunity to go back to their alma mater, but from a timing standpoint, it's just never worked.
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It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.
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Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.