Jon Gruden Quotes
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Antonio Gates is spectacular. But he's not a blocking tight end.
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If you're a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you're looking for.
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This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.
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We've got enough issues in this country without worrying about some of the things we're worrying about. It's unbelievable to me. And as long as I'm alive, I know what football gave me. It taught me my work ethic. It gave me a sense of discipline.
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You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't.
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When the season ends, it's all about the next season.
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I really get excited when we win. I get really upset when we don't, and I hope that still has a place in the NFL.
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I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can't even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.
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Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.
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Does the draft really matter? At the end of the day, at the end of your career, at the end of time, does it really matter?
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All I really have in my life is my family and football. That's about it.
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I miss high school football.
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You have to keep trying to get better.
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All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player.
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God bless Tony Romo.
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When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.
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I spend most of my time looking at game film.
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It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away.
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I draw plays every day.
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A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.
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Tebow is the kind of guy who could revolutionize the game. He's the 'wildcat' who can throw. Most of the teams that have the wildcat back there, it's Ronnie Brown, it's Jerious Norwood, it's whoever you want to say it is. This guy here is 250 pounds of concrete cyanide, man. And he can throw. He throws well enough at any level to play quarterback.
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I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.
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There are not a lot of things that Andrew Luck can't do, but the thing I like about him is his work ethic. He's a workaholic, and that's what impresses me the most.
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When I got fired from coaching, I started coaching high school because my son played. I realized real quick that high school football is in trouble. There's no budget. A lot of kids have got to pay to play, and every year, coaches are getting out of the profession. Kids aren't playing like they used to. It bothers me.