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Football Quotes by Paul DePodesta

15 Football quotes by Paul DePodesta

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Paul DePodesta brings a data‑driven lens to football in this set of 15 quotes. His observations often tie strategy to performance metrics, offering readers a concise sense of how numbers and intuition intersect on the pitch. It’s a quick dive into his analytical approach to the sport.

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We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.

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Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well.

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Cleveland and football have always held a special place in my heart.

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I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

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It's up to a manager to understand his players.

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There aren't 32 of them in the world that I think can be quarterbacks of Super Bowl champion teams. Supply is short.

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There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import…

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In a given year, there may be two or three NFL-ready quarterbacks at the college level. In another year, there literally may…

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Admittedly, there will be an awful lot for me to learn, but I want nothing more than to help bring consistent, championship…

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I think the hardest part, and where we have to stay the most disciplined, as much as you want a player, you…

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Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a…

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I really focus on process as much as anything else: process for how we evaluate players, process for how we make decisions,…

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Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a…

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I was well aware of my limitations as a football player and knew that I needed every edge I could possibly get…

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I got into baseball, and everyone just started calling me a geek, like, 'There's the nerd from Harvard.' Then it took 20…

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We have to make judgments on the individual players and we're not always going to be right.

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Scouts, by and large, are very industrious, very passionate and very loyal guys.

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I think there are definitely things over the last year-and-a-half we would have done differently, ... I think we've at least learned as we…

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We need to be humble in the face of uncertainty

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Baseball ultimately is a drama without a script. It's the original reality TV.

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There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in…

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Look, I loved working in baseball.

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There probably isn't another position in all of team sports that I can think of that has the same level of import as the…

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Even teams that win 110 games have stretches when they don't play well.

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Whether baseball or football, we're tasked in front offices with making decisions under uncertainty. How do you corral that uncertainty in a way to…

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The nice thing about baseball is that all of the possible outcomes are known - it's not quite as messy as the real world.…

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Circumstances change and you have to be proactive about changing with those circumstances.

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I played football in college and what I really wanted to do was be a football coach.

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I have a little experience in doing things that are unpopular.

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Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I…

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