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" There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league. "
Jon Gruden
Cheerleader
Great
Me
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays. "
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" It takes courage to pull the ball down and reverse field and do some of the crazy things that Favre and Manziel do. There's going to be consequences when sometimes it doesn't work out. But it takes a tremendous amount of guts and courage to go make a play when there's nothing there instead of throwing the ball away. "
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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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" 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. "
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NFL
Got
Evaluation
" You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence - or you don't. "
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Knowledge
" You have to keep trying to get better. "
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You
Keep
" When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks. "
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Great
" I got kicked out of the league because I had a hard time sustaining at the quarterback position. "
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Hard
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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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" 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. "
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Negative
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Sitting
" When it comes to football, I'm more of a traditional guy. I love going to Green Bay. "
Jon Gruden
Love
Going
Football
" 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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Place
NFL
Excited
" 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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Career
Day
" 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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" Mariota is special in a lot of ways. He's a dynamic dual threat on the field, and he is humble - no-nonsense, full of character - off the field. "
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" God bless Tony Romo. "
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" I love the AFC West. "
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" 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. "
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Sometimes
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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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High School
High
Job
" I just love football. "
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Love
Just
Football