Steve Mariucci Quotes

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

We're not running the ball again until we get ahead. Shula was calling the plays, but I told them, 'I don't care what he calls. We're throwing every pass from now until we get the lead.' To Shula's credit, he always gave me that option.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

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

I think there's a special relationship between the center and quarterback.

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

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.

As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things figured out and move on to the next series.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

My wife will act as the offensive coordinator at times during the evening. I'll have her read the full play to me. I'll sit there and try to picture it, spit it back out to her, make sure I'm verbalizing it the right way so that when I step into the huddle the next day in practice, things are coming out clear.

The key is having great players. But there are a lot of teams that have All-Stars and haven't been able to put it together.

Real Madrid is a great club, and I will have some great players at my disposal who all want to help improve the level of the team.

How do you win? By getting average players to play good and good players to play great. That's how you win.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

And I coached against Mike when he was an assistant with the Bears and they won that football game.

Obviously, being a forward, I would like to score more goals. But while the team does well, there is no problem.

I do feel we have several great keepers on this team. We just need to get them that experience.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

If we don't start playing better on defense, it's going to be hard. We can't just sit there and win shootouts.

I think there's a lot of different ways to win. You've seen teams that win championships with a super-duper star like Kobe Bryant. Those championship teams with Michael Jordan certainly had a great, great player.