Ed Reed Quotes

The whole thing is develop players, develop them as people, develop teams.

I think all coaches look at it as a major part of our job: to build young men, not just ball players. To put the right things in front of them, and help them mature as men, not just as players.

If you're a young man, and you're being coached by someone like Guy Lewis, you're going to become a better man.

The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.

Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting.

I've always enjoyed the coaching side, working with young players, trying to improve them and to make them not only see football different but to see life differently.

When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.

I've always tried to grow people rather than cricketers.

People think that coaching is about winning football matches - which, of course, it is - but throughout my career it has also been about helping people become better, more able to deal with life and be more successful in their lives, on and off the football pitch.

A coach's primary function should be not to make better players, but to make better people

I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.

I used to get stressed out all the time when I thought winning was important. I wanted to try to win and help my kids win. Once I figured out it wasn't about winning or losing, it was about teaching these kids about being men, that's when I started to relax.

The sport in Scouting is to find the good in every boy and develop it.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Over my NFL career, I've had five head coaches who have helped me become better at my craft and have helped me become a better human being: Jim Mora, Tony Dungy, Jim Caldwell, John Fox, Gary Kubiak.

I talked to Grant Hill, and I told him, 'I played against you a lot, and now, hopefully, I'm getting to coach a player like you. Jabari has the opportunity to be a special player in this league. But it's not handed to you. He's going to work, and our jobs are to make him better each day.'

The thing I like about college football so much is you can affect these guys a lot more when they are 18-22, 23 years old in terms of people and having a chance to be more successful. They are still a value type development, where you have a chance to help them mature a bit and help them be a little more successful in life.

True success for me is allowing players to be better than I was. That is what I went into coaching for and I've not lost sight of that.

I want to develop a championship culture that's filled with high-character people that are dedicated to becoming the best versions of themselves.

Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players.

As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.

I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'

You know, my stepdad taught me growing up, you know, if the team has success then the individual things will follow.

What you realize is when you have an environment and an atmosphere like we had at Marist, where guys cared about each other, the coaches were great teachers and communicators, whether it's high school, college or pro, I think coaching is coaching.

It's a great feeling to have a lot of big characters in the team who are willing to help the younger players come through and help them do well.