Jon Gruden Quotes
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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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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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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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I love that Mel Gibson.
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I love the AFC West.
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To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.
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I miss high school football.
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I break down the tape like I'm a quality-control coach, just like I was with the Packers in 1992. I break it down by hand, every play.
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Antonio Gates is spectacular. But he's not a blocking tight end.
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I don't want to look at myself like I'm some superhero. But I'm not going to let people wipe their feet on football on my chest.
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Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.
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All I really have going is football. I don't know what I would do without it.
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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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I spend most of my time looking at game film.
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If you're a young kid out there, put away your Twitter accounts if you want to be a pro football player. Somebody's going to hack your account; somebody's going to cause you problems.
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You have to be able to recognize defenses on your own in pro football. You can't look to the sideline and read some board. You've got to recognize the defense on your own, and then you've got to communicate to your offensive teammates what you want them to do.
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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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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 like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.
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I just try to get the most out of every day and be prepared for anything.
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I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don't know why.
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I took a lot of pride, honestly, in hiring these young guys, that not only to become future head coaches, but I wanted young guys that could help me - guys that can coach, guys that could study, guys that loved it, that would do it for nothing. That's how I got into coaching with the 49ers when John McVay hired me.
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You have to keep trying to get better.
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From the standpoint that you try to adjust your offense to your quarterback, you try to adjust your football team around your players. You do the best you can with the hand that you have, and you've got to add some parts along the way.