Rex Ryan Quotes

I've always been privileged to play for Coach Belichick, who I've always said is the best coach in the history of the league.

I'm just glad I play for Coach Belichick.

I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.

I would have loved to have played for Joe Gibbs. Look at his record of winning three Super Bowls.

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

I have all the respect in the world for the Patriots, and I respect Tom Brady tremendously.

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.

Tom Coughlin is great with the players and he is what you see with the media. He's a good guy and he's a fun guy, but at the same time he's a serious guy when it comes to winning and it comes to football.

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

If you win a Super Bowl before you're fired, you're a genius, and everyone listens to you. But a coach is just a guy whose best class in grammar school was recess and whose best class in high school was P.E. I never thought I was anything but a guy whose best class was P.E.

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

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

I like watching Tom Brady, not just because he's handsome - I get handsome; I understand handsome - but he's a fine leader, he's a great quarterback, and I like the team. I'm not going to apologize for that.

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

Quarterbacks coach, I would do at Tennessee. Head coach? Absolutely not.

I don't think I'm any different than most coaches, honestly. Maybe Steve Kerr. The guy never loses.

I have a lot of respect with Mike McCarthy and for what he's done.

Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.

Bill Belichick has been an awesome, awesome guy to learn from.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

I think it's an honor to play for coach Belichick. You never go into a week thinking you are not prepared.

Tom Brady is a big inspiration and a big idol of mine.

In football a championship team is never bought, it's built with time and patience.

We're not all like Tom Brady, who just keeps winning Super Bowls.

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.