Zitat des Tages von Bob McNair:
If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.
When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.
If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.
A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.
We're about winning and accountability.
Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.
I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.
Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.
Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.
I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.
I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win.
The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.