Mike McCarthy Quotes

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

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

It's football. The game hasn't changed. There's not tons of new concepts every year that go in. Offense is offense; it's our job to move the ball, to score points, and keep our defense off the field.

It's always great when a defense is able to create turnovers and score. That's something we missed last year. We'd get some turnovers, but we never scored points.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Defense to me is the key to playing baseball.

You can't score if you're turning it over. It's like a punt. If you go out and you punt 12 times, you're not scoring points. That's not good. So, when you turn the ball over and throw interceptions, you're giving the other team more opportunities and your team less opportunities.

You have to take care of the ball to win football games.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

Some games I'm going to get more blocks or they're going to do more mistakes and give up more baskets but some games I get zero blocks and I affect 20 shots.

Anytime that anyone can create some explosive plays, get first downs, we're going to have more plays on offense.

When you play a great team like the Patriots, you can only kick so many field goals and stay in the game.

When you're in the playoffs, you have to get easy baskets and you have to limit their easy baskets.

I think if you're not conceding so many goals, it gives you a great platform to win games.

If we concede three, and I am marvellous on the ball, it is no good.

You have to defend the perimeter guys otherwise you're going to struggle getting playing time or staying on the court.

Any time you can get the ball back to the offense and they put points on the board, you can win games.

Every game, well most of them, come down to turnovers and the turnover battle.

Coach Marinelli's defense is incredible.

Defense, for me, is where I really love to put work in most. Defense is, in my mind, what wins games.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

How are they defensively, attacking-wise?

It looks like our defense is quite a bit better than it has been in the last two years, ... If we can keep it up and stay at least in the middle of the league, that would be significant. We haven't ordered any championship rings yet; two games doesn't make a season. I love the Colorado air. I love the game, the competition, the show.

Football, if we bring it down very simply, it's when you have the ball and when you don't.

You're going to play me different if I have the ball, even if I'm at 75, 80 percent, just for the simple fact that you do not want me to make that three. That's helping my team out.