Top 116 Quotes & Sayings by Bill Cowher - Page 2

I was blessed to have followed a legendary coach in Chuck Noll.

I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.

We won a lot of games, we brought play'off games to the city of Pitts'burgh, we won play'off games.

The one thing you don't want to do is get to a point where losing becomes a habit.

All the projects that coaches go through in the offseason are based on the success other teams had in every area whether it's offense, defense or special teams. What they do is see if they can incorporate anything they see with the people they have.

When you think about a Hall of Fame player, you think about someone who impacted the game, someone you had to game plan for.

I'm very comfortable at CBS.

I think a guy like Saquon Barkley is a very special back, and where the was drafted was very appropriate.

I had the best job in the NFL.

Keith Butler is a very good football coach.

The draft is like game day on a 3rd-and-5. You have a lot of plays you can choose from. You go with your gut, pick and play and hope it works.

To be recognized for making the contributions I did, along with the others who are part of the Hall of Honor, it really is humbling. Particularly when you grow up in Pittsburgh and know what the Steelers mean to the city. To me, as a little boy growing up watching the Steelers, this means a lot to me. It's special.

I find most video games too complicated to play.

When you talk about tradition, and organizations, the Steelers are one of the best in the NFL.

Don't get me wrong; I miss the live elements of coaching.

As a kid you were proud to say you were from Pittsburgh.

I've probably watched more basketball games than anything.

I wanted to be my'self and I wanted the play'ers to take pride in ev'ery'thing they did. We rep'resent the Pitts'burgh Steel'ers but we also rep'resent the city of Pitts'burgh. You're a leader and a role model, whether you want to be or not.

The one thing you have to be careful of is trying to do what other teams and players are doing when you don't have the people to do it yourself.

Antonio Brown is, if not the best receiver in the league, one of the best.

It's hard to throw the football when you have some instability at quarterback or if you don't have the weapons around you.

Tom Coughlin has done a great job and is an excellent coach.

Going back to being a head coach entails a full-time commitment to that job and I would not go into it for any amount of money and do it halfway. It would be a total commitment, not part-time.

Le'Veon Bell, as we have seen through the years when healthy, is such a dynamic player not just out of the backfield, but as a receiver.

I've always wanted to walk into a hotel, sit at a piano and play 'Piano Man.'

A lot of times losing a game is not taking care of the football, foolish penalties.

I've had a couple of people - prominent coaches - walk into an office, shut the door and say, 'What's it like, not coaching?' They're scared. They're scared not to have that. And I'll tell them, 'You know, it's different. You're not going to replace coaching. But there's some normality that's out there, and that's also kind of refreshing.'

The biggest thing as a head coach, you want to make sure you exhaust every option.

A guy like Saquon Barkley is really a three-down player. You see the size, the speed, the quickness, the elusiveness, the power. He's a unique individual.

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

It is a lot easier to kick off a turf field than it is off a grass field.

If I'm Colin Kaepernick I have to prove myself. I would say, 'I would love the opportunity to show that I am a championship-winning quarterback again, and I understand that I am not going to be handed anything and that I would love the opportunity to come back.' If he said that it would open the ears of a lot of teams.

I miss the combative back and forth, strategic elements of the game on Sunday. Making the adjustments, and what you've prepared for all week all of a sudden isn't there.

I think coaches are very much guilty of trying to implement players into their schemes as opposed as trying to fit schemes into players. That's the thing that can separate good coaches from bad.

You go back to fundamentals when things start to go awry.

I just love the Buffalo market. Say what you want about their fans, it'll be December and they've been out of the playoffs for a month. But if there's a December game with snow, there's still going to be 72,000 people in those stands. One of the most passionate, loyal groups of fans in the National Football League, bar none.

To be taught to coach by Marty Schottenheimer, to be able to go to an organization like the Steelers. I came there at 34, probably brash, ready to set my niche.

I like the ability to wake up and say, 'Well, now what are we going to do?'

I don't think running backs have ever been under-valued.

I'm a New Yorker. I never thought I'd say that.

J.J. Watt, he does on defense what Andrew Luck does on offense. He inspires those around him, he makes them better.

We know about the Detroit offense with Calvin Johnson, the best receiver in the game. If this defense continues to play at this pace, they may have something to say about the NFC North.

When have you ever seen a one on one match up on this platform? Andrew Luck on offense…going against J.J. Watt

This isn’t Kirk Cousins’ job to win. Right now this is Kirk Cousins’ job to lose…He’s putting together a profile right now, a resume of these next seven weeks that will make the decision easy for the Redskins: either they sign him to a contract or they’re still looking for the quarterback of the future.

Perception is reality, but it may not be actuality, and you have got to be able to keep the difference between that.

Kirk Cousins is the future of the Washington Redskins.

Aaron Rodgers is going to spell ‘relax’ with R-U-N…You’re going to see a lot of Eddie Lacy.

Yeah, I know he discovered the West Indies; it wasn't America. But the whole thing with Columbus was that people had been telling him, 'Don't go. The world's flat.' But he kept going. He found land.

Pressure is something you put on yourself.

I didn't get out of coaching to get back into it. This is my next challenge and I'm planning to work hard at it.

So many times through the course of a season you are defined by your backups. They have three players in [Kirk] Cousins, Niles [Paul] and [Bashaud] Breeland who may be better than the players that they’re replacing.

Nothing drives me more than to, hopefully, be able to hand (Steelers chairman Dan Rooney) that fifth (Vince Lombardi) trophy. If I can do that, then I would think, that when he brought me here, I finally accomplished what he wanted me to do.

We're not attempting to circumcise rules.

I want to bring back the pride and tradition long associated with the Pittsburgh Steelers, and more importantly, with the people of Pittsburgh.

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

It’s the only call…To have Christian Ponder as your third quarterback, a guy who started for you a year, to me it made it an easy call because you have a veteran guy who has played in this atmosphere before.