Joe Gibbs Quotes (234 Quotes)

I'd say for us, obviously we have a long way to go. We're going to have to go home. We've got a lot of work to do.

That was FedEx Field the way I sure remember it, ... We needed everything we could get today to win this game.'

If you make a lot of yards and you turn the ball over, then you don't score points, ... So that's a tough lesson to learn. Maybe I'm looking at the good side of it Maybe it's good we get the lesson now. Last year, we started out the season and that's exactly what haunted us -- we turned the ball over and right now we're next to last in the league in terms of giveaways and takeaways.

I think he's a courageous guy. We need to get everything else on offense working together. All of us working together, including myself. I think he can make plays to win games for us.

Bowen stayed at a local hospital for a second straight night for observation. But the team's worst fears -- internal bleeding -- were alleviated after an MRI exam came out negative. He's very sore, ... so they're going to be cautious about it.

If that took place, we understand the penalties. We understand somebody being taken out of the game. Sean is so valuable to us. I had a long talk with him afterward, and he understands that. He's all football. He wants to play. He's one of our leaders. He's had an outstanding year. He's very valuable to us. We can't afford to lose somebody like that.

It's smart. If you are going to make an investment of millions and millions of dollars, you would research them.

In times of biggest change, if you can keep your head and be the smartest, you may get a jump over everybody else. It's a challenge, but it's an opportunity, too.

I don't like doing this. It wasn't the plan I had going into the season, but certainly, plans change and you do the best you can to deal with them.

We wish Bill Musgrave all the best in his new role with the Falcons organization. Although it is unfortunate that he departed, we always want what is best for our coaches and their families, which is why we gave Atlanta permission to interview him.

Our quarterback came out of Sunday's game amazingly well. We gave him the award for being the tough guy--certainly he was. He had to scramble and make a big play in there late in the fourth quarter. I think he came out of the game in good shape.

It's kind of like being the athletic director in college. They don't care they're just trying to go for the money and the coach is like, 'Wait a second, I need to get me a couple of teams on here that I can get tuned up with,'

I know we don't have any Dallas people here -- they are the ugliest people in the world.

I always think it's ultimately my responsibility. I always start with myself. I haven't done a good job if we play a game like that. . . . You tell them, 'Here's the good, here's the bad.' It's a common-sense thing. This was disappointing for all of us.

We had a couple of good talks. That's the only statement I want to make.

Patrick is going to see that he made some real good things. He hit some deep balls and made some key plays for us, and that's partly what I'm referring to. And then he turned the ball over. We can't do that and Patrick knows that.

It's going to be a big topic of discussion.

Being what we are, human beings, the natural tendency is that when everybody brags about you, they write good things, you kind of read about it and you back off a little bit. We couldn't play with them last time.

There have been a number of times where this team could have said we're out of it and given up. It got to the point where our backs were against the wall and the players responded. That's says a lot about their character.

To Mark's benefit, ... I think he's been really consistent with his play since we started back this year. I think he's been confident and sure.

We have a lot we need to improve on, ... We've got a long ways to go. Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels like we're satisfied with our passing game or our rushing game right now, so I think you try to do a good job of analyzing it. But certainly our work, and what we're concentrating on, are ways to get more production. I would say across the board we need to step it up. I don't think anyone is satisfied with what we're doing.

I know a lot of people will disagree with this, and I understand that,

Our heart goes out to everybody down there, ... They've got to do whatever they've got to do. We're all praying for everybody down there. There's been a number of our players affected by it, and you just hope that somehow such a tragedy somehow we'll get that all squared away as quick as we can. So I would say whatever they've got to do, the Saints . . . I just feel bad for them.

Any time you don't play special teams, it hurts you, ... You've got to be a legit starter if you're going to do that.

I was starting all over. It's a tough road up here and last year, for whatever reason, I probably deserved it (the criticism).

It's a short work week, so Wednesday is a big day for us because we only get two work days, really. We're going hard and we're going late.

That was the first time we got manhandled by somebody in the regular season. Our guys just took it upon themselves. They knew what needed to be done and they knew they needed to play hard.

We're counting on Sean being here. We had a good talk about it today. We're both on the same page.

We had so many injuries last year. I was kind of praying that we'd be much more in a good-health situation when we got to the regular season.

Not very good ones, I'll tell you that. We always seemed to have a tough time against them.

It's been pretty traumatic, ... I thought we were kind of set there in a lot of ways. It just goes to show in the NFL you're never sure.

He's had a very, very good preseason, ... All of our defensive coaches feel the same way. I think he's a guy who loves football this is where he belongs, this is what he loves doing. And I think he's had great concentration and I don't think he's shown any distraction or anything. I think he's been totally focused on football, as a matter of fact. The legal problems become something you don't even think about.

A winning effort begins with preparation.

It was a tough deal for us for him to get hurt. So what we're going to try to do is make the best decision.