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" I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again. "
Jon Gruden
Responsibility
Feel
Loyalty
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" There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football. "
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Family
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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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Me
Long
Work
" I learned from Al Davis. We didn't have any secretaries. Secretaries, really, in Oakland were young football people. "
Jon Gruden
People
Young
Really
" You never say never to nothing. "
Jon Gruden
Never
Say
Nothing
" I spend most of my time looking at game film. "
Jon Gruden
My Time
Most
Looking
" I just love football. "
Jon Gruden
Love
Just
Football
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Way
Football
Team
" All I really have going is football. I don't know what I would do without it. "
Jon Gruden
Really
Football
Going
" 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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People
Feet
Football
" I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach. "
Jon Gruden
Coach
Learned
Lot
" 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
" In the NFL, you've got to get to the Super Bowl, and you've got to win it. That's the evaluation we're all accountable to. "
Jon Gruden
NFL
Got
Evaluation
" Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes. "
Jon Gruden
Touchdown
Passes
Drop
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Future
Thought
Try
" You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't. "
Jon Gruden
Passion
Intelligence
Knowledge
" Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker. "
Jon Gruden
Nobody
Like
He
" 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
" I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him. "
Jon Gruden
Love
Appreciate
Wish
" All I really have in my life is my family and football. That's about it. "
Jon Gruden
Football
Really
My Life
" 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'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. "
Jon Gruden
Best
Doing
Regret
" You want to take a charge from LeBron James coming down the lane with no helmet on - that's dangerous. But you know what? Some people like to do that stuff. So leave them alone. "
Jon Gruden
You
Down
Know
" I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that. "
Jon Gruden
Ceiling
Think
He
" 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. "
Jon Gruden
Game
You
Say
" When it comes to football, I'm more of a traditional guy. I love going to Green Bay. "
Jon Gruden
Love
Going
Football
" I'm a backup quarterback at the University of Dayton. I was a one-year starter in high school. I think I got the job in high school because our quarterback left and went to another school. "
Jon Gruden
High School
High
Job
" You miss the adversity. The journey is what I'm talking about. Helping a guy get better. Seeing a guy get a contract. And seeing a seventh-round choice or free agent make the team. "
Jon Gruden
Better
Free
Team
" I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays. "
Jon Gruden
Plays
Like
Calling
" You don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week. "
Jon Gruden
Newspaper
Day
Every Day
" 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