Bob McNair Quotes

Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.

In real football, I wouldn't want Terrell Owens anywhere near my team. But you're nuts if you don't take him in fantasy.

It's not a very high failure rate if you choose people that you really like the sound of.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.

You're not getting any recognition as a point guard if you ain't winning.

Because 98 percent of our ideas are not great ideas, or everyone would be a billionaire. So yeah. That's something people have had a lot of experience in: being told our idea is bad or our performance is bad. I think that's the one common thread between all working actors is that they have a pretty thick skin - or you'd like to hope. You're used to rejection, that's for sure.

Base runners in postseason games are kind of tough to deal with at times.

I had spent four years at Le Havre, and when they told me they weren't keeping me, because I wasn't good for the second division, that hit me hard.

This game is a game of failure, and you're going to fail a heck of a lot more than you succeed in it.

The only regret I can have is that Inter sold a player that is now completely recovered. I said many times that I wouldn't have left Inter without showing who I was. But then they sold me.

In 'Condition Zero,' failure has greater consequences and success offers greater rewards.

In corporations, the penalty for repeated failure on known tasks is being reassigned to other tasks or asked to leave the company.

If you are lucky, you go to a team like Porto to mature. And if things don't go well for you, others take your place.

While we talk about successes, I think it's also important to talk about all the failures. Like, for every Netflix special, there's things that don't work.

Nine out of ten businesses fail; so I came up with a foolproof plan - create ten businesses.

As the competition goes further along, you start to see who's rising and who's falling.

You're always as good as your last movie and that's the same with politics. If you are successful with a certain policy, then you're hot; if you're successful with the economy, or bringing down the unemployment rate, then you're hot. But if you're not successful, then things go south very quickly.

No one should be surprised just because somebody isn't successful 100 percent of the time.

When I have failed as an actor I've always thought it was my fault. But when I direct something, I wouldn't want the actors to think it was their fault.

I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

I used to think I was like the wicket- keeper, which is like the catcher in base- ball, y'know what I mean? You can call the play a lot from behind the plate, y'know what I mean? You're not necessarily the star, you're not the one that makes the mark, but usually in the end, you're called upon to get a run when it's needed.

The probability of success is difficult to estimate; but if we never search the chance of success is zero.

Fishing largely consists of not catching fish; failure is as much a part of the sport as knee injuries are of football.

Phil took us to the finals three out of the five years and you want to fire him and want to bring in Mike Krzyzewski? Come on, man. That's like being married to J-Lo, then dropping J-Lo for a girl that's 5-10, 480 (pounds).