Dick LeBeau Quotes (27 Quotes)

You do a good job where you are and opportunities either open or they dont. Those people who spend a lot of time worrying about that are being counterproductive, because all that matters is where you are and whats coming up next.

There's an element of disguise. You don't know which one, two or three linebackers is going to rush the quarterback.

There is a finite number of blitzes you can come up with. But its sort of like music. Theres a finite number of tunes, but we probably havent come close to exhausting them all yet.

He gives you unlimited flexibility. He can play the deep perimeter. He can play as a linebacker support player. He can blitz. For a defensive coordinator, he's ideal. You can put him anyplace.

All quarterbacks have to have time and space to operate. We'll do the same thing we always do play zone pressure. And our guys play it very well.

Troy's got that rare ability to play at all levels of the defense -- deep, intermediate, at the line and blitz. Those people just don't come along every day.

We rely on Joey to give us great leadership along with great play. You can't overstate the impact he has on our defense.

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

I think that's a compliment to Larry.

It's a nice even number, isn't it When I reached 30 years, I didn't think about 50. But we're a little closer to 50 now. So we'll see. I'll take it one snap at a time.

He had a couple (of) injuries early in his career that kept him from growing at a normal pace. But soon as he stayed healthy, which he has, he just really became a fine defensive lineman.

Troy improvises a lot of that stuff. We give him parameters, and sometimes Troy may stretch those a bit.

Our coaches were good to us. They treated it more as a bonus for us. We didn't work too hard and we got some time off.

I haven't changed a bit over the years. I have tried to learn from all these people and have tried to dissect what makes them so successful. What is it that made them better teachers, better communicators

They do a good job of protecting the quarterback. So I thought instead of beating our head against the wall, we'd let our guys drop back and play some max-coverage. I thought they did a good job of that.

We told our guys all week these are two good teams and it's going to come down to one or two plays. I knew Indy would come back. I've seen (Peyton) Manning do it too many times.

Our guys just made the plays. They didn't block our guys the way they've been blocking people. They had a harder time. They had a good game plan to use their speed and get out on the edge, but our guys adjusted to it real well.

Nobody remembers who loses the Super Bowl. Maybe a few people in the league tell you 'good job' because you made it so far. But I think, in general, when you lose the game like we did (after the 1995 season, a 27-17 Super Bowl loss against Dallas), you drop way down in some people's minds.

I try to stay out of Troy's way. We establish parameters for him, and he has to be at a certain place at a certain time.

He's very quick, and he can make plays with his feet and his arm. He is also very accurate, and his ability to escape adds to his overall package.

I think there was more an advantage then than now because no one did it. They're keeping you from substituting. Manning's probably the best that, if you try to substitute, he's going to catch you most of the time.

He's very motivated, very studious and he has tremendous instincts, so that's a pretty good combination. His talent lets us do a lot of things that you could not do with not many people. He has that rare ability to play at all levels of the defense.

I never got my uniform dirty. I had the best seat in the house. Our front seven just swallowed everything up.

He's similar to those guys in that he has good size and speed and can really run, yet he can blitz, too. I think he enjoys playing in our system, just like they did.

It was pretty neat, really. I think it was Benjamin Franklin who said 'Small things seem great to people of small circumstances.' That seemed like a pretty great thing to me. It was a tremendous compliment. I took it that way. I've never seen anything like that in this league.

We looked at it, sure. We thought they (the Chargers) did a good job. What they did, we did. We benefited from looking at their game.

I'm not sure how much that hair weighs. As long as it doesn't slow him down, I don't care. He can grow it another foot if he can get another interception.