Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Rex Ryan.
Last updated on November 22, 2024.
Rex Ashley Ryan is an American former football coach and analyst. Ryan was formerly the head coach of the New York Jets and Buffalo Bills of the National Football League (NFL), and also held various coaching positions with eight other NFL and college teams.
I'm really high on Josh Allen. He reminds me of Ben Roethlisberger. He's got the big arm. He's a very good athlete.
It's been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.
I like competing against the very best.
I don't want to just be known as good. I want to be special.
I'm not as tough as my Dad.
I never realized how similar that I am to Tom Brady. mean, the obvious physical appearance would be the first thing. The fact that he's married to a supermodel? Hello? Yeah, I'm also married to a supermodel.
I'm not a red wine guy.
Sometimes you can't accomplish all your goals in life.
I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself.
You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.
I have no problem at all if somebody disagrees with me on my politics, or on this, that or whatever. That's fine.
I know I put forth an effort to try to build a championship team and to be a champion. And it hasn't worked out.
I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.
I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.
I've been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I'm sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.
Kiko Alonso is a tremendous football player.
Dez Bryant's a great player. You can't take that away from him.
You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.
I'm not a bunt guy, I'm a home run guy.
When Dad looked at football players, he would take them in his own image. That's what he grew up around; that's what he was when he was a master sergeant in the Korean War. That's what I took, and that's what I want on my football team.
I want success for Woody Johnson, I do.
My arms are like twigs.
Everybody knows me, I circle the Patriots. That's what I do.
Maybe I wasn't just the traditional-type person or whatever. I got to the top, but I got there maybe unconventionally. It wasn't just a straight line.
So many times, I notice nobody will say a bad word about a team or situation because they're worried about their next job. I'm not worried about that.
I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'
It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.
I think when you take a job, you assume you can win regardless of what they have or don't have.
We have won five Super Bowls as a family, but we want to win our sixth at some point. And I want to win it as a head coach, because that has never been done in our family.
Look, do I like the Mets and the Yankees? Absolutely.
I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.
Coming here to the New York Jets, where my father once coached and was part of the Super Bowl III staff, is fantastic. I look around at the facilities and the people they have in place and see a first-class organization. I'm just proud to be part of it.
Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.
I want to be a better head coach than my father.
I'm not afraid of expectations.
I love coaching football, don't get me wrong. But I just love baseball.
I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.
How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.
Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.
I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.
I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that's the guy. He'll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there's no coach I respect more than him.
My wife's beautiful. We've been married for 23 years. She's awesome.
I have sets, literally, of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it.
I'm not going to kiss any rings from anybody.
Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.
If I think a guy should handle things differently, I'm going to say it.
I'm not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I've been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.
I supported Donald Trump, I sat back when he asked me to introduce him at a rally in Buffalo, I did that.
This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.
Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can't say he's not in the top five, certainly.
Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.
My wife just so happens to make an amazing bean dip.
I want to win the damn Super Bowl. That's what drives me.
My goal is to win a Super Bowl. It's not to just win X number of games.
I wanted to beat Peyton Manning as bad as I've ever wanted anything in my life.
At the end of the day, I'm responsible for the product on the field.
There's nothing like gameday.
I've been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don't get any.
I don't put others down; I talk my team up.
I'm always going to be myself and I'm a good person.