Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Herm Edwards
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Herm Edwards.
Last updated on December 23, 2024.
I don't need validation from people at all.
You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.
You don't quit in sports. You retire. You don't get to quit. It's not an option.
I wanted to give back to football what it's given me. So, I decided, 'I'm going to be a coach.'
I'm a neat freak.
There's good times and bad times. That's part of the coaching. You live with the ups and downs of it but at the end, it's about not only winning games, it's about developing men.
I've always said that your attitude is your best friend and your worst enemy.
I'm big on integrity.
When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.
At heart, I'm still a coach. I'm always a coach.
When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.
What makes us different? Well, besides our skin color and our nationality and maybe our religion, nothing. We all want the same thing, we all want to have success in America.
You're in pro football, it's kind of interesting, because when you win, you draft last. In college football, you recruit. You gotta go after guys.
I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.
It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let's go win this game. It's called team.
I think Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.
You don't forget how to coach.
It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.
We learn a lot of life lessons in how we play this great game, and I've been fortunate enough to be involved in it at every level.
I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.
You don't want an emotional team; you want a passionate team.
People who've watched me on television, they go, 'Oh, that's who this guy is.' So when I walk into their home, they say, 'Coach, you're that same guy! We trust you with our son.'
You play to win the game.
That's the great thing about sports: You play to win, and I don't care if you don't have any wins. You go play to win. When you start telling me it doesn't matter, then retire. Get out. 'Cause it matters.
I'm very observant. I see more than people think I'm seeing.
The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.
I kind of know who I am as a man. There's a value system I believe in.
The support of Chiefs fans across the country has been tremendous. They are truly passionate about their football team.
Oh, I still get a little anxiety when I'm doing NFL live for ESPN.
Coaching is always about changing. That's the life of a football player and a coach.
College has become a wide-open game - a lot of short passes, quick passes. Then you go to the pros and it's a whole different ballgame - things are happening faster, the patterns have to be more precise. Getting off the line of scrimmage is more difficult.
I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.
I don't go crazy but I have those spurts.
I grew up in the early '60s, and there was a lot of civil rights, a lot of unrest in our country.
One of my daughters was born in Kansas City. I spent almost 10 years there.
When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people's lives, to develop young men in the game of football.
I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.
I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.
To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.
Football ignites my soul.
Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.
Coaches? They can talk. I tell them: 'Just make sure before you open your mouth you've researched what you're about to say. Don't just say stuff. And if you don't have anything good to say, don't say anything.'
If you pay a QB $10 million, you don't want him to run the ball.
The best thing you do as a coach is develop an environment where these guys can have some success. Vince Lombardi was that way. He cared about these guys not only as football players but also as men.
No one player is bigger than the team.
The greatest thing I could say about my son, and this is what you always worry about with your kids, that they kinda outgrow their Mom and Dad. But for him, when I see him, when he calls me Dad, and he can still hug me, he's still like my little boy. Even around his friends, he still calls me Dad.
If you draft a player to be a backup, why did you draft him? You're drafting a guy because you think he's worthy of being drafted at that spot, but you're also drafting him because you think he can compete. If you're going to say, 'This guy's a backup,' - really? That doesn't make any sense to me.
You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.
It's good to have somebody else say what you're thinking.
I like to have fun.
You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.
The thing you miss most, when you don't play and you don't coach, is the huddle. You miss the huddle. You miss the ability to walk in the room where collectively players are from everywhere. Every race, every religion, every color. It don't matter, because you've got a common goal. You're trying to be something special as a team.
As a coach, you're like a teacher. You don't give the players their talent. God gives them talent, but you can give them knowledge, and you can give them information.
I grew up in the era of the desegregation program. I actually got bussed to a predominately white high school. I didn't have a choice.
The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!
I do the right thing on purpose. I don't do it by accident.
Too often, people equate discipline with cursing. When you go to Catholic school, the nuns don't curse a word, but you get discipline.
I don't think anybody that coaches ever fully quits.
I think I bring a good perspective because I did a lot of things in the NFL - player, head coach, assistant and scout.
My passion is from my mom. She was passionate about leaving Germany and coming to America and making a life for her and her family. My father - discipline, a chain of command, it works this way.
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