Jeff Fisher Quotes

I feel that a lot of people say that your best passing attack is having a good run game. I couldn't agree more with that.

Your run blocking looks pretty similar to what the pass blocking looks like when you're going with the play-action pass. So you really do have an opportunity to get really good at it quickly.

Anytime we can get the running game going it is a plus for me and it makes my job a lot easier.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

As a running back, it takes five offensive linemen, a tight end, a fullback and possibly two wide receivers, in order to make my job successful.

Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game.

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.

To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

At some point, you're not going to be able to run the ball for 180 yards, even with the best running back in the NFL. That's when you have to be able to throw the ball.

I think first and foremost, you've got to be able to run the football to be successful in college football. Some teams have thrown the ball 60 times a game and had success doing that. But I think you've got to be able to run the football to have success.

How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.

A lot of people forget how extraordinary Elway was handing the ball off to Terrell Davis, and those bootlegs, those naked bootlegs off of those stretch plays was devastating.

In playoff football, you've got to be physical. You've got to run the ball.

How I pick running backs, I always go off what situation they're in. I look at guys and what they had around them.

Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it's less stressful in terms of defending.

A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.

I recruit defensive players first. That's where most games are won. Then you've got to get the offensive linemen.

Should we go back to huddling? Should we go back to putting all these tight ends in there and have 250 yards a game? It doesn't win anymore. So should we do it because that's what the people before us did? No.

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

When I was younger, I initially hated football because they put me on the offensive line because I was the biggest kid.

A lot of people don't really understand that a statistic is an indicator, but it doesn't really give the full picture of the body of work. There's been time when I've had one sack or no sacks and controlled a whole game, and I've seen other cats get three or four sacks and it had no effect on that game.

It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.

Whatever happens, if I don't make any plays that game, hopefully I can have an effect where I'm distracting two or three blockers, or I'm getting my hands up so I can bat down balls.

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

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.