Nick Nurse Quotes

I love watching game tape. I can do it all day long and enjoy every minute of it.

I do love video games. But after a while, you feel like you really need to get up and do something.

I like to wake up late, around 11 A.M., especially if I have been out the night before. Then I go to brunch with either my friends or my girlfriend. I then like to just chill out: read the papers, read some scripts and then take it very easy. If it's sunny, I go for a walk with my dog, Niles, in the countryside.

I spend most of my time looking at game film.

I didn't really care about my physical health; I only cared about what was on screen.

Our lives are quite boring. I spend a lot of time watching Coronation Street and Eastenders.

I look at scouting reports, but don't let them dictate what I'm throwing.

Friends from Vienna visit me a lot, and when the weather's bad we usually end up playing 'FIFA.'

In football, the stronger team is the one which wins.

I am not a coach for the tackles, so I do not train them.

I have no desire to work my adrenal glands any harder than necessary. I like lazing around; it's pretty important to my well-being. But I also get bored, so that's when my culture-vulturing kicks in.

For me, nobody's re-inventing football. We just have to do it better than everybody else.

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

I go to bed late, and I wake up early; in this game, to win it, you have to do that. The military prepared me to do that: you go to bed late and wake up early.

I just go to work every day, spend hours in the film room, go to practice, go home and then do it all again the next day. I know I can be boring and I sound like a walking cliche but I really do just try to get our team ready to win a game on Saturday. That's pretty much my life.

I grew up on video games. When I was in college, even during snowstorms, I would go the half-mile to the drugstore to play 'Millipede.'

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

We have to play our football.

When I was a kid, I used to wake up every single day and skateboard. All I would think about is skating, but it wasn't like I wanted to be a pro skater. It was more of just that's what I did. I also roller bladed a lot.

I normally don't wake up until 1 P.M. and I'm not about to screw with my biorhythm.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.

I can't imagine not having a reason to get out of bed at night.