Adam Vinatieri Quotes

I have learned in football that you can't trust anyone and if you listen to what everyone says, more often than not it doesn't happen. So when I'm told 'so-and-so are interested' or 'such-and-such have done this' I don't get caught up in it all.

I think there's nothing that's not important. Everything you do - from how you connect with the guys in the locker room, to how you learn, to how you play on the field - everything's important; everything goes with the position.

I look for people who're passionate, dedicated to the text, and in whom I trust completely.

I've just got to go in there and get some quality at-bats and do my job and help the team win any way I can.

I just do my job; I'm out there to make plays and play football.

Number one, I tell the quarterbacks, do your job. You've gotta do your job before you can even worry about anybody else or any other situation.

Trust the process. If I can't trust you to go to class, how can I trust you on the field? If you want rings, want to go to the league, want to be great, trust the process.

There is only one thing I want to do here, and that is play football to the best of my ability. If I let things start distracting me, I'm not going to be able to do that, which will jeopardise the team as well.

My teammates and the coaching team know that they can count on me.

It's that preparation that goes into each week. We have a term: 'Trust your training, trust your teammate, and trust yourself.'

Having trust in your manager is the most important thing for a footballer.

I am a calm person, and I know my responsibilities. I will show it on the field.

I'd love to go in the foxhole with guys who will stick their neck out and say, 'I'm going to deliver for you.'

It's nothing, really, for me to be able to say it's overwhelming or anything. It's just - you do the interviews, you interact with everybody, and you make sure that, at the end of the day, you focus on why you're here, and that's to play football and make sure I can contribute as a teammate.

Football is what keeps me going, what makes me prosper, and what will keep me straight.

When you have my confidence, I will do 200% for you.

I want to be one of the guys, but I also want to be 'the' guy, the guy that can go out there and they can rely on in crunch time. I'm going to be the guy that they know will show up every day, every game, every play and show up on a consistently great level.

Once players have my trust, they have it.

I believe in Coach Louis Wong. He is so much more than just a football coach.

Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

A coach's greatest asset is his sense of responsibility - the reliance placed on him by his players.

I want to see a player on the football field. I want to see what kind of teammate they are, what kind of leadership qualities they have. I want to see how aggressive they are, how much fun they have playing the game.

I watch every day when we hit and take ground balls and the way we go about our business. If I saw any lackadaisical approach, that would concern me.

I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train.

I'm going to say this - to the people in Seattle, to all the people in Seattle that trust me, that believe in me - I'm going to say this: I'm not going to disappoint anybody.