Tim Ryan Quotes

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

If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.

I feel like, even if a guy is covered, I can put the ball where it needs to be so we can have a successful play.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

If you throw four interceptions, it's tough to win.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

Quarterbacks will make plays; they always do. But I think the team that runs the ball the best will win.

Third down and long is the toughest situation for any offensive coordinator in the NFL.

I think at some point during the course of the game, I will have an impact - whether it's blocking or whether it's catching the football.

The Bears treat offense as if it's bubonic plague.

The reason I do not like to have much passing in my offense is that when you throw a foward pass, five things can happen and four of them are bad.

If I were a high school coach, I would put my best players on offense. The best athletes on my team, I would give them the ball and score points. I wouldn't play them on defense. I would play them where they can get the ball and score points.

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

If you're winning and can stay on the field offensively and move the ball, that's what we want.

I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.

In this game called football, we don't know who's going to the playoffs.

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

I prefer playing in a 4-3-3.

That's what we're here for as quarterbacks is to help our team win, lead the offense down the field and put points on the board.

If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

The ultimate factor in judging quarterbacks is winning games.

We have to let our defense dictate our offense.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

The most important relationship a head coach has on his team isn't with the other coaches, the owner or the general manager. It's with the quarterback. He's the one who runs the show on the field; He's the ultimate extension of his coach. If there isn't a high level of mutual trust between them, both coach and quarterback will be doomed.