Herman Edwards Quotes on Football (7 Quotes)

It would be the first time he didn't show up for one since I've been here. The one thing about Curtis Martin, if he doesn't think he can help the football team, he won't do it. If he thinks he can help the football team then he will play.

A lot of people look at the last preseason game as if it's not important. Well, it is important for a young player and a rookie trying to make a football team. Most teams have to cut down 18 or 15 players and bring eight of them back. So, I think it will be a very competitive game for the most part and I look forward to seeing these young guys play.

He's really playing his senior year of college in pro football. You can't lose sight of that. I never do when you pick juniors. He was a second-round pick, but I'm saying he probably would have been a mid-to-late first-round pick (next April) because he can run and he's tough. ... He's a guy who's gotten better.

You come home to your little apartment, you're tired, you eat and watch some TV and go to bed, ... Your world is football. Idle time can be a detriment sometimes because you can overanalyze things. Anything you've done that day, you magnify it. It is a lonely deal.

You can't score 7 points in the first quarter, ... You're not going to survive, no matter who you are. That's the problem. In the first half of football games, we have done a lot of things that have damaged our ability to win.

They realized what type of football team we are. We have to do the little things well. It doesn't look pretty all the time -- pretty doesn't win.

Football teams are families, ... I had a sister who used to beat me up all the time, but she was still my sister.