Rex Ryan Quotes

Having played in the league during the '80s, '90s, and the new millennium (old, I know), I had the chance to see firsthand how the best point guards of our time played the game.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

I had a great time with baseball growing up. I was lucky to grow up with it and to learn.

I enjoy playing for the Arizona Cardinals, and I want to continue to play here and try to win.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

I've been around this game for a long time - a lot of plane rides, a lot of bus rides, a lot of pregame speeches, a lot of national anthems.

I was always most of the time working in clubs as player and coach to win titles.

I guess football is a game of opinions.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

I don't drive a truck, I drive a team of footballers who work for a major club like Atleti.

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

When I was growing up, I played football, I loved football.

You have to remember one thing: Football is entertainment; it's not life or death. Once the game is over, you're already talking about next year and the draft. It's just entertainment.

If the teams with the best players always won, football would be boring.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

You would not want me on your football team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

It's great to have atmosphere at the stadium, but football is all about the players.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

I would have loved to have been a cricketer.

Because I love football and I love the footballers.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I was happy working for the N.B.A., but to be honest, I decided that I'd probably get back into coaching. I missed the teaching, I missed the games, I missed the competition.