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" All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player. "
Jon Gruden
Coach
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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 don't want to be a negative piece of barbed wire sitting up in the booth with all the answers. I think that's a turn-off. "
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" I love that Mel Gibson. "
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" I got a lot of the greatest values in life from playing sports, from playing football - teamwork, sportsmanship, my work ethic, resiliency, dedication - I got it all by being on a team. "
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" Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism. "
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" All I really have in my life is my family and football. That's about it. "
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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. "
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" I hate to predict my future. I never really thought I would be a head coach at 34 years old. I never thought I would be traded to Tampa. I never even really thought I would be fired, even though I probably deserved it. I try not to predict things. "
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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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" Some of the best tape that I've ever studied was Mike Shanahan and John Elway in Denver, back-to-back Super Bowl win teams. "
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" We used to tell our receivers, 'If you want to run an inside breaking route, and you want to fight for yardage after the catch, you better be careful, because these defensive players, they're on the hunt.' "
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" I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that. "
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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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Pride
" Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes. "
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Passes
Drop
" I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game. "
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Game
Kind
" 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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Career
Day
" I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right. "
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Out
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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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Place
NFL
Excited
" God bless Tony Romo. "
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God Bless
Tony
God
" There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league. "
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Cheerleader
Great
Me
" To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing. "
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" If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what's going on. "
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" I love finishers. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" You never say never to nothing. "
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Nothing
" You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week. "
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