Words matter. These are the best Jeff Fisher Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The players are out here to help win games and to improve, not to make a movie. They’re not actors. They’re players.
When you have trust, it gives you a better chance to be successful.
It’s my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it’s important that I keep sports and politics separate.
I learned the most important thing is to put yourself in the shoes of the players.
A lot of coaches make it harder than it should be. Some are too hard on themselves, obsessing about controlling everything, not trusting their assistants, worrying about time.
One of the more difficult things is the time. Either you are going 100 miles an hour, or you are sleeping. There is nothing in between.
You need continuity. You need a commitment and continuity.
You can’t put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can’t get your quarterback hit.
We have an ascending player in Brian Quick, who, I think, is going to be a very, very solid player for us.
Everybody goes through situations like this. A tipped ball, a shoe-string tackle on a third-down scramble by the quarterback where he has 40 yards to run.
I’m not a real big text guy. I’m not really into this new age stuff. I don’t twit or tweet, but I think face-to-face is a man thing.
Michael Sam will help us, and we’ll give him every chance to succeed, and you know what? It’s gonna be pretty cool.
You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it’s not just locker room. It’s practice field. It’s on and off the field. It’s on Sunday, and it’s on game days.
I was a pretty mediocre player.
There was something missing. But in my world, there is never time to figure out what is, in fact, missing.
The nickel spot, inside. It’s the hardest position to play. It’s harder than outside.
You only have so much time in a day.
Our teams always play hard.
It’s all about giving yourself a chance to win the opener, and then after that, you focus in on Week 2.
You’re always having those life-skills type discussions about decision-making. It’s just making sure you’re making good decisions and going about your business. There are distractions in every city.
There’s a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they’re having. They’re not.
Since 2000, it’s been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus… is player safety.
Discipline is doing what you really don’t want to do so you can do what you really want to do.
I’ll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.
I guess it’s sad that anybody, regardless of profession, that they’re in this country, would take a shot at our military.
I think everyone at some point in their career would like the opportunity to go back to their alma mater, but from a timing standpoint, it’s just never worked.
Pay respect to your opponent.
We have rules in the rule book that are very specific. If the quarterback is in a throwing position, he gets protection. But in the event that the ball is handed off, at that instant, there’s no telling whether or not he is a runner or not, so he loses that protection.
Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.
I’ve been a Rams fan for so long.
It’s not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.
Having grown up there, my dad in 1967 took me to the Rams-Eagles game, and I’ve been a Rams fan since I was a kid.
I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years – high school, college and the NFL.
The quarterback gets plenty of protection in the pocket, and he picks up protection out of the pocket; he’s got protection down the field on his slides.
It’s unfortunate that sometimes the personal things affect the business.
