Rex Ryan Quotes

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

Sometimes we make a mistake. Don't treat us as the enemy.

I learned long ago not to tear into anyone for a mistake.

Everybody likes to hold up a really big righteous sword when people make mistakes. Well guess what, now it's recorded and everyone has access to it... so let's stop judging people.

I'm a very sympathetic person, but that doesn't always come across in my work because I'm too busy being mad at everything.

No one will die because of bad acting. No one will die because you missed a cue. We're all human beings. If mistakes are made, you figure out that you're going to live.

I know I lost my temper, but I tried to be human along the way.

I think one ought always to be indulgent towards other people, as I always think, if we had not been well brought up and well taken care of, we might also have gone astray. That is always my feeling. Yet it is always right to show that one does not like to see what is obviously wrong; but it is very dangerous to be too severe, and I am certain that as a rule such people always greatly regret that in their youth they have not been as careful as they ought to have been.

Even if my fellow man has proven faithless time after time, I can at least retain a hope that he will improve, pray for him, and think kindly without frustration and disappointment.

Before one blames, one should always find out whether one cannot excuse.

I'm not someone who feels anger on particular issues.

As much as it hurts, I would rather miss someone than hit someone.

I really admire people who are extraordinarily tolerant and patient.

This sounds really cheesy and weird, but the pitbull is a sweet animal that just wants love until it's provoked - that's kind of how I've lived my life, too.

Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle.

Human nature is complex. Even if we do have inclinations toward violence, we also have inclination to empathy, to cooperation, to self-control.

Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less.

A person being patient with an insane person is my favorite thing in the world.

I try to be a nice person, but it's difficult sometimes.

If it was necessary to tolerate in other people everything that one permits oneself, life would be unbearable.

My mother can certainly be rough around the edges at times, but she also taught me to have compassion for people who have been wronged. She taught me to empathize with those who have made mistakes.

The only cure for contempt is counter-contempt.

The wise man... if he would live at peace with others, he will bear and forbear.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Hush! Check those words. Do not cure ill with ill and make your pain still heavier than it is.