Jon Gruden Quotes
-
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.
-
You have to keep trying to get better.
-
I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position.
-
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.
-
When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.
-
When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.
-
The Gruden-McVay relationship goes all the way back to 1970. John McVay and my dad are best of friends. My dad continued to work with McVay as a 49er. When John McVay became the general manager, he hired my dad to be one of his scouts.
-
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.
-
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.
-
There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.
-
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.
-
God bless Tony Romo.
-
I miss high school football.
-
I think when you get Robert Griffin, one of the most explosive quarterbacks to ever play the position, in a Mike Shanahan-type system, the possibilities are very exciting, I think, with Mike Shanahan's imagination.
-
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?
-
This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous.
-
I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him.
-
Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner.
-
If you're a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you're looking for.
-
I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that.