Top 60 Jon Gruden Quotes

Some people feel pressure; some people don’t.

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

I miss high school football.

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.

I feel a lot of unfinished business and loyalty and responsibility to get the Raiders going again.

When the season ends, it’s all about the next season.

I have a different mentality than most guys, I guess.

To be a good analyst, you need to know what the trends are and what teams are doing.

I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.

When it comes to football, I’m more of a traditional guy. I love going to Green Bay.

If ESPN ever kicked me out the door and I had to get back to coach, I have to stay on top of what’s going on.

This whole social media scene makes me sick.

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.

You don’t want to read about your quarterback in the newspaper every day of the week.

I show up in a playoff game, I have my sideline sheet. I can’t even spit plays out, I get so excited. I mean, you get nervous. These are critical, do-or-die situations. Third down and 1, Red Zone, what do I call? Two minute drill? Are we going to go no huddle? These are decisions that you wrestle with.

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

You have to help your players understand that when they speak to the media, or when they tweet or text or e-mail, a lot of times, they become public knowledge.

I don’t know what’s going to happen in the future; I just know this: I’m going to continue to give my best effort to the game, stay prepared.

I used to take a lot of pride into what went into practice.

Julio Jones doesn’t drop wide-open touchdown passes.

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.

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.

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

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

If you’re a leader, can communicate, and have a great work ethic, those are the things you’re looking for.

You have to keep trying to get better.

When you’re the head coach, you coach 53 people, and their wives and their girlfriends and their families and all those people.

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

Simon Cowell is a pretty rough guy.

I draw plays every day.

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.

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.

All it takes is one coach that believes in you.

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

I compete with myself. I try to get more done than you. I don’t know why.

You either have the charisma, the knowledge, the passion, the intelligence – or you don’t.

I only live one time.

I get excited when we make a play. I get excited when we make a first down.

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.

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

Having been in the league with five different franchises, I know what the meaning of Monday Night Football is. It’s usually the best games and the greatest venue outside the playoffs.

I kind of like to be one of the guardians of the game.

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.

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.

Just to get cufflinks on my shirt is a challenge.

I love the AFC West.

Inches matter. That’s why they measure first downs. That’s why they have a crew down there with those chains.

You never say never to nothing.

Cancer is tough. It is a relentless opponent that won’t seem to go away.

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.

I love that Mel Gibson.

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

If it wasn’t for football, a lot of the best times of my life, my brother’s life, my dad’s life, wouldn’t exist.

I get excited for big games in December.

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

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

You think of Brady, you think of Rodgers, Roethliseber, Eli Manning. They’re icemen. They have no feelings – none. They’re able to concentrate on a snap-by-snap basis.

There are some great video clips of me swearing, screaming at players, but I was also the biggest cheerleader in the league.

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.’

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.