Michael Wilbon Quotes

Because I love football and I love the footballers.

I've been a Colt for almost all of my adult life, but I guess in life, and in sports, we all know nothing lasts forever. Times change, circumstances change, and that's the reality of playing in the NFL.

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

The Cowboys have done a good job at developing young players.

Teams buy players and change managers if they feel they need change at the club.

I started this job in 1995, and I felt the same pressure in my first day, with my first team, Reggiana, in the Second Division, as I feel now. Nothing has changed, but what changes are the number of games, especially for top teams. For this reason, the work has pressure. But only this.

In today's sport, coaches are in a partnership with their top players.

I've had a number of kids in the NBA that I've coached and a number of other great players that I've coached.

I went away with Scotland because I was trying to get some game-time somewhere but it just wasn't working out with Scotland, the results weren't happening.

I'd love to play for the Jets.

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

Players come and go, and that goes for coaches as well.

I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.

The focus should be on the players. I'm here a long time. You can call me in the summer. Our seniors will be gone.

And as a football coach in the National Football League, I know for sure that it's going to end someday.

The first few weeks football players look at you like you are speaking a foreign language. My job is to get them to trust me, trust the system. I ask them to run in a way that makes no sense to them.

So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

When you play professionally, you get accustomed to turnover. Players come and go - they get injured, they get transferred, they get cut from the team. Coaches are hired, and coaches are fired. It's just part of the world you live in.

I think in the NFL, continuity is something that is helpful, but it's not the end all. In a league where injuries are so prevalent, you're used to guys moving in and out.

Most players in this league say they want consistency.

Football players win football games.

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that.

Coach Lombardi treats us all equally -- like dogs.

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

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