Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" 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? "
Jon Gruden
Time
Career
Day
Related Quotes:
" Just to get cufflinks on my shirt is a challenge. "
Jon Gruden
Just
Get
Shirt
" If I ever come back and coach, I'm never huddling again! "
Jon Gruden
Never
Ever
Come
" It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds. "
Jon Gruden
Sense
Much
Guy
" If it wasn't for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother's life, my dad's life, wouldn't exist. "
Jon Gruden
Brother
My Life
Life
" I've always coached energy, hustling, rushing to the pile, and if it is wiggling, you do hit it because guys are fighting for yardage, and sometimes, you've got to give up the ball because of one inch. "
Jon Gruden
You
Sometimes
Always
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Future
Coaching
Pride
" I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again. "
Jon Gruden
Responsibility
Feel
Loyalty
" I've been hitting up Hooters since 1983, and I can assure you nothin' says football season is here quite like watching the game on wall-to-wall flat screen TVs with the smell of Hooters world-famous chicken wings in the air and an ice-cold beer in your hand, served up with one-and-only Hooters hospitality, of course. "
Jon Gruden
Game
Hospitality
Beer
" In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others. "
Jon Gruden
Week
Best
Football
" There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football. "
Jon Gruden
My Life
Family
Football
" This whole social media scene makes me sick. "
Jon Gruden
Social Media
Social
Me
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
You
Young
Football
" I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people. "
Jon Gruden
People
Young
Really
" I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position. "
Jon Gruden
Got
Hard
Position
" I miss high school football. "
Jon Gruden
High
School
Football
" When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks. "
Jon Gruden
Against
Always
Great
" I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game. "
Jon Gruden
Guardians
Game
Kind
" When the season ends, it's all about the next season. "
Jon Gruden
Season
Next
Ends
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Some
Super
Denver
" You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They're icemen. They have no feelings - none. They're able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis. "
Jon Gruden
Able
You
Think
" You never say never to nothing. "
Jon Gruden
Never
Say
Nothing
" I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him. "
Jon Gruden
Love
Appreciate
Wish
" Some of the best lessons that I've ever learned are on a ball field - basketball, football, baseball, golf. And I learned great lessons from my coaches - being on time, being mentally tough, having some discipline, and being part of a team. "
Jon Gruden
Golf
Best
Great
" This stereotype as Marcus Mariota as a spread quarterback that just runs read options all the time, that's ridiculous. "
Jon Gruden
Options
Quarterback
Ridiculous
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Nervous
Down
Decisions
" Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker. "
Jon Gruden
Nobody
Like
He
" I only live one time. "
Jon Gruden
Live
One Time
Only
" When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people. "
Jon Gruden
People
Coach
Girlfriends
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Work Ethic
Him
Like
" You have to keep trying to get better. "
Jon Gruden
Trying
You
Keep