Football Quotes by Mike McCarthy

12 Football quotes by Mike McCarthy

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Mike McCarthy’s 12 quotes blend a coach’s strategic eye with a fan’s enthusiasm. This short selection offers a straightforward view of his thoughts on the sport’s tactics and the moments that shape a season.

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Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the…

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I think success is the biggest challenge you have to handle in the National Football League; that's something we talk about a…

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I got three years invested in Brett Hundley, two years invested in Joe Callahan. The quarterback room is exactly where it needs…

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The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

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Really, I learned a long time ago that in the National Football League, paper doesn't mean anything. Football teams are created on…

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I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would've offered me a 25-year…

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I worked at a place that followed a system where the quarterback was taught to take the sack rather than force the…

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I understand how success is judged and calculated in the coaching profession. That's really all I care about. You go about this…

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The performance of your position coaches is obviously more than just the actual statistics of how their players perform. There's insight from…

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Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays…

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When you're losing, there's that survival instinct. But when you're handling success, people think it's easier, and they think losing's harder. But…

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To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in…

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The reality is, if you're going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it.

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I hate that 'I got it' stuff. That drives me nuts. It's that natural instinct that everything's OK because you're winning.

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Throwaways are OK. When a quarterback throws the ball away in our system, that's a plus. That's a plus decision. That's the way I've…

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You build a program; culture is what makes it go. You have to invest in that culture every single day, and that's my big-picture…

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The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success.

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