Jon Gruden Quotes on Football (11 Quotes)

I would like to congratulate the USF Bulls on a rousing victory, ... It fired us up, really, while we were in our hotel. (They) handed it to Louisville. That was a great win for our local fans and USF football.

We don't have one player or coach on our team who has ever won a Super Bowl. This is the most exciting times of our lives in football.

We had lot of peaks and valleys. We've been fairly consistent. It's a credit to our coaches and the football team to step it up. We're in a prime position that a lot of people didn't think we would be in.

It is good to know, as a football player, if we get the ball back to our quarterback he can do something with it. He made a great statement today in front of a lot of people.

The only way to evaluate your short-yardage offense is to work on it and see it in a game. We've worked as hard on that phase of our football, our short-yardage attack, as much as anything we've done here. With that said, we feel good about it.

He's surrounded by great skill, ... Between Eric Moulds and Lee Evans, they have two outstanding receivers, and third wideout Josh Reed is a fine player in his own right. They have a balanced attack. McGahee's one of the hotter rushers in football. . . . Losman is a very athletic guy. He's a number one draft pick. He's in his second year in the system and clearly he's a very good prospect.

I tell you this is a crazy league. There's an analyst on every corner who can figure it out. If you can control turnovers and have success on third down, you have a chance to win in pro football.

What can you say about Jerry Rice ... It's a great feeling to be on his team in the playoffs. I can't believe his performance tonight. Those 49ers acquisitions were big today. Jerry may be 39, but George Foreman won the heavyweight championship when he was 44, so he's got a lot of football left in him.

Even though you're back playing, you don't miss a year and a half of football and show up in Week 9 and say, 'Hey, I'm back, man,' ... I don't care what anybody tells you. You've got to work through that.

He has incredible acceleration, stop-and-start quickness. You do not forget that sometimes that he can stop and throw that ball. There is not a guy like him that I have seen. I used to think Steve Young revolutionized the system of football that I always study with his unique scrambling ability. I hate to tell Steve Young this, but this guy is a hell of a lot faster.

I look at Charles as a football player. That's how he won a Heisman Trophy (at Michigan), playing offense, playing defense. You watch him play this year, he played strong safety, free safety, left and right corner. He's a football player.