Jeff Fisher Quotes

Most people would say safety was my best position. To me, the biggest challenge and most gratifying thing I got out of playing football was playing corner, because it was a bigger challenge than playing safety. Playing corner provided me my biggest thrills and my biggest headaches.

I prefer to play inside linebacker.

I do like playing strong safety.

I didn't really like playing free safety. I didn't like being in the middle of the field.

You can't stop me in bump. And you definitely can't stop me playing off. You just try to contain me and stop me from getting a lot of catches.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.

You know what? For myself, I kind of like the spy because it takes another guy out of coverage or another guy out of rushing.

My position in football was cornerback, and what your job is as a cornerback is to read the person that's in front of you - read their body language and anticipate what's going to happen next.

As a cornerback, you only get probably about 5 chances to really impact the game.

The Raiders took me fourth overall because they had a certain need, and that was for me to come in and play man-to-man, bump-and-run all day, to guard the best receiver. You understand your job going in, so that's what you focus on. Would I have liked to play receiver and go both ways? Yep, would have loved to have done that.

Nobody talks about Shaq Thompson. I don't know what he is. He's like a nickel corner/linebacker.

There is always pressure playing cornerback. It's just a position where you're always in the spotlight.

Remember, a receiver can motion wherever, run wherever he wants to on the field, you can't get your hands on the guy and there is a lot of room. When you are a corner, you are playing to the boundary, which is your friend.

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'

A lot of times, I go and face the top receiver, and that's a task... it comes with the territory, and I never back down from that challenge.

Any defensive coordinator is worried about two things: a running quarterback and a deep ball. You know, don't get beat deep and don't let the quarterback run, because a big part of your defense can't account for the quarterback as a runner, so he gets a free run.

When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

That's my thing. Pass rusher, yeah, you can call me a pass rusher.

Obviously, I'm a shortstop at heart. I want to continue to play shortstop.

You can't be wrong in the three-tech position. I like that. It allows a lot of freedom.

I'm about the size of a cornerback, maybe a free safety.

I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.

Any time you play shortstop or center field, the majority of the baseballs are hit in the middle of the field.