Top 9 Quotes & Sayings by Matt Millen

Leaders are never appreciated or needed until you don't have them.

What I should have done, if I was going to be a GM, was gone on the road, gotten into the personnel a lot better. To do that job, you've gotta do it all year. I just did it at draft time.

To win, I'd run over Joe's mom too.

I can't root for Jimmie Johnson to win the Nextel Cup b/c of all of his Super Bowl wins.

They're my mistakes. ... I didn't pick the right guys.

Mark my words: If Shaun Rogers is healthy, he'll be the NFL defensive player of the year.

I'd run over Russ Grimm's mother to win the Super Bowl, too.

I think every coach has to adapt to what they have, because they're what you get. You can't just go out to the player tree and pick all the great ones. That doesn't happen. You get a Barry Sanders every now and then. You get a Billy Sims every once in a while. And when you have it, you adapt to their strengths. Whoever comes in here and whoever has this job needs to adapt and will do that.

We want the right people, the ones who love to play football. I want a guy who, if I punch him in the mouth, doesn't stand there and say, ?Why did you punch me?' I want the guy who punches me back first, and then asks me why I did it.