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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. "
Jon Gruden
Negative
Answers
Sitting
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" 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. "
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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 had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder. "
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" You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge. "
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" All it takes is one coach that believes in you. "
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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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" If you aren't winning, we are not going to be happy. "
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" There's a lot of things I could've done better, and I regret not doing better. I do know I always gave it my best shot. "
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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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" 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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" 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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Hand
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" I miss high school football. "
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School
Football
" 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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" All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player. "
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" I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach. "
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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 don't know what's going to happen in the future; I just know this: I'm going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared. "
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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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Just
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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'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. "
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