Jeff Fisher Quotes
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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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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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Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.
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Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.
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As we say from time to time, it's hard to win in the National Football League.
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I never get into the details regarding my own personal situation.
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Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.
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Eddie George was outstanding early.
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You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.
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Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.
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There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.
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I'll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.
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It's all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.
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You can't live in Orange County and train in Thousand Oaks. OK? you just can't. Not with the hours we put in. We have to be on time.
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I was a pretty mediocre player.
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A lot of coaches make it harder than it should be. Some are too hard on themselves, obsessing about controlling everything, not trusting their assistants, worrying about time.
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You're always having those life-skills type discussions about decision-making. It's just making sure you're making good decisions and going about your business. There are distractions in every city.
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Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I've been a Rams fan since I was a kid.
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I'm not a real big text guy. I'm not really into this new age stuff. I don't twit or tweet, but I think face-to-face is a man thing.
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We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.
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We have to sell a gameplan, and you have to be enthusiastic, and you have to have energy come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.
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I had this moment in church, which I think really turned me off. I was 7 or 8 years old and I was sitting at church, and we happened to be playing with the sunlight that was coming down from the stained glass window, and the monsignor came down to the pew and grabbed us by our neck collars and said, 'I'll deal with you.'
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There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.
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To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.