Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Arians

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Last updated on December 21, 2024.

Bruce Charles Arians is an American football executive in the National Football League (NFL) and former coach. Since 2022, he has been a senior football consultant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Arians was previously the head coach of the Arizona Cardinals from 2013 to 2017 and the Buccaneers from 2019 to 2021. He was also the interim head coach of the Indianapolis Colts during the 2012 season. Arians is known for his slogan "No risk-it, no biscuit," which encourages aggressive playcalling.

American - Coach | Born: October 3, 1952

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You can die at any moment doing anything. I mean, so why not do what you love to do. If I die on game day, have a drink. Celebrate.

Bruce Arians

I thought that's what you did, you know? You graduate high school, you went to work.

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I got to know Peyton Manning when he was a high school junior and I was the offensive coordinator at Mississippi State.

Bruce Arians

I think Chris Godwin is going to be close to a 100-catch guy, especially because I think he can play in the slot.

Bruce Arians

You never know about team speed until you get out there. You don't know who is a slow learner. A kid may not be very bright or he may be real bright but he doesn't know football. You've got to find out all those nuances and how they learn.

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Both times I had cancer? Preventative medicine. Caught 'em both early. I'll take physicals anytime I can get one.

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I loved the three years I had in Cleveland, especially that playoff run with Timmy Couch and Kelly Holcomb. And obviously those great years in Pittsburgh.

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I never want to be a father figure to my quarterbacks. I've got my own kids. I want to be the cool uncle you'd like have a drink with.

Bruce Arians

You learn a lot about human nature in a bar.

Bruce Arians

At 30 I thought I knew everything, and 30 years later I didn't know anything.

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I was allergic to milk as a child. My older brother would always get a big glass and drink it in front of me all the time.

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My quarterbacks have to be a member of my family, and that has nothing to do with football. Trust is everything. We have to connect on a deep level in order to really be able to build something together.

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When I coached guys that I knew would be good coaches, I kind of push them.

Bruce Arians

My family moved to York, Pa., when I was eight. As a kid I spent virtually all of my free time at Memorial Park, which was just down the street from my house on Springdale Avenue in our blue-collar neighborhood.

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I wasn't happier for anyone more than Vic Fangio. He deserved to be a head coach, in my opinion. I was really pulling for him and pushing him whenever I got a chance.

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Football is not played in shorts and it's not fair to the big guys. So many guys look bad in shorts and then they put the pads on and they're football players.

Bruce Arians

There's not one moment from my journey that I'd want to change. Everything happens for a reason.

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I think all the great ones have it. They just have a will they can put on their teammates. Refuse to lose mentality. When you step in the huddle with any of those guys, you're so calm that he knows what the heck he's doing and he can get the job done.

Bruce Arians

I work hard, but I also play hard. Everyone needs balance in life.

Bruce Arians

I felt like Cleveland deserved a winner. They have the most loyal fans in the world. I just thought it was a goal of mine. Every time that job came open I tried to get it.

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How do you stay married 47 years? You are probably apart 20 of them. You get fired, move to another job. She would raise the kids and come six months later. Just start all over again. New romance.

Bruce Arians

When you get in coaching, you realize there are only two kinds of coaches - those that are fired and those who are going to get fired.

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We have to build that African-American offensive coordinator/quarterback coach that is going to be a head coach. I think that's our job as head coaches - to find those guys.

Bruce Arians

Trust brings a higher level of communication and a higher level of commitment and accountability.

Bruce Arians

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

Bruce Arians

And opportunity doesn't always come. I thought I should have had a head-coaching opportunity a long time ago. Called plays in the Super Bowl. Won the game. No phone calls.

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You can't draft for need. You draft for need, you get fired. Draft the best player, and if you've got two of them now you've got three of them. Just take the best players available for you.

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I've always loved Cleveland.

Bruce Arians

The most important relationship a head coach has on his team isn't with the other coaches, the owner or the general manager. It's with the quarterback. He's the one who runs the show on the field; He's the ultimate extension of his coach. If there isn't a high level of mutual trust between them, both coach and quarterback will be doomed.

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Top 29 Quotes & Sayings by Bruce Arians

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