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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 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. "

" All I ever wanted to do was coach, 'cause I knew I wasn't gonna be a player. "

" I think there is a huge ceiling in Derek Carr. I think he has proven that. "

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" You have to keep trying to get better. "

" You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't. "

" 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. "

" Just to get cufflinks on my shirt is a challenge. "

" Anytime a guy gets traded at midseason - a young player - it's surprising. "

" When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I learned a lot from Al Davis, and I got a lot better as a coach. "

" Julio Jones doesn't drop wide-open touchdown passes. "

" I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position. "

" In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others. "

" I love Olivier Vernon, and I wish he knew how much I appreciate him by just watching him. "

" I just try to get the most out of every day and be prepared for anything. "

" I draw plays every day. "

" I'm not good at Blackberrys, cell phones, or packing. "

" Some guys, nothing bothers them. Eli Manning is one of those players. "

" I had all kinds of different quarterbacks. But we never drafted a first-rounder. "

" Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism. "

Jon Gruden

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You

" 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. "

" 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. "

Jon Gruden

Hand

Down

" 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. "

" 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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" Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy. "

" Eli Manning is the one man I just don't want to see in the playoffs. He is a flatliner. "

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Want

" 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. "