Austin Seferian-Jenkins Quotes

Once I'm at the training ground, I'm focused, preparing for the next game.

It's nice to get comfortable with the plays before the season starts.

Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball.

I'll put it this way: I couldn't just go out the practice without looking at the playbook, without looking at notes. I wouldn't be able to do much.

You don't beat football teams like Nebraska with a trick play. They're too well-coached, too well-disciplined.

I think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out there, rely on the fact that they have ability. And as a quarterback, you have to go out there and just go through your reads.

The real football starts in training camp.

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

It is difficult to click your fingers and say, 'Right, go and play that formation now.'

Listen, I want to win football games; whatever's going to help us win.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

You always want to be on top of the playbook. You always want to be refreshed with the plays, make sure you're on the same page with everyone else.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

There are few secrets in football. So execute.

The young athlete who aspires to greatness, generally speaking, learns a number of things from several different coaches. The first one taught him the fundamentals; the second one instilled discipline in him and taught him more of the techniques that must be mastered to excel.

We've got to play better basketball.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

Sporting success doesn't happen by accident. It takes hard work and determination on the part of the individual athletes. And it also takes investment in facilities and training support.

My philosophy about the game, for instance, is that you have players out there who really do different things.

I know the game well. I'm a student of basketball; I know what it takes to win.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

Football isn't nuclear physics, but it's not so simple that you can make it simple. It takes some explaining to get it across.

You can't try a man-to-man if you don't practice it.