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" I'm not good at Blackberrys, cell phones, or packing. "
Jon Gruden
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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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" 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. "
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" This whole social media scene makes me sick. "
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" I love that Mel Gibson. "
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" I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right. "
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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 don't want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week. "
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" I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach. "
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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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" Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner. "
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" 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. "
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" To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing. "
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" Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy. "
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" When you're the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people. "
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" Not many people do what Jameis Winston did: first year as a starter winning a national championship, only one loss in his two years as a starter. He's got great charisma. He's polarizing for some people, but he's a rare talent. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays. "
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" In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others. "
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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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" 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. "
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