Marv Levy Quotes (39 Quotes)

My enthusiasm is unbounded. It's not just to get back into the mainstream of the football world, but to do it with the Buffalo Bills, for whom I have such a longtime affection.

Again, I don't want to say. You may think there's an obvious thing to read into, and you may be right, but I don't want to say what our strategy is going to be.

I know Eric had an unsettling season last year. We hope we can work something out so he can be here. Restructuring is possible.

It's that time of the year where all teams are involved in making some, to a degree, painful decisions.

It's an option, and if we use it, that's the likely person we use it on. We hope we can do a contract that goes beyond that. Sometimes you have to put the franchise tag on and work on the contract part of it.

I was surprised, yeah. I don't know their cap situation and all those considerations, but he made a tremendous contribution to them at a very definable position. You either make (the kick) or you don't. It's not like analyzing a tackle, where you say he didn't move his feet quickly, or slide properly. A kicker is easy to measure and he made all the important kicks, plus the clutch ones as well.

You need good personnel. Mike's good years came before he lost a lot of good players. His two starting guards. Before Brett Favre went into a year where maybe he wasn't quite what he had been before. So records mean something, certainly, in the evaluation process, but I look far beyond the won-loss record. There are other reasons.

We were looking for three qualities in our coach. First, he had to be a good teacher. He needed to be able to work well within the organization. He has to because he can't do it alone, and he had to have the respect of the players, and Dick has that.

When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.

Way back when I was hired in 1986, I was 61 years of age. It sounded too old, so I lied and said I was 58. Finally I cleared that up. Maybe as I matured I realized (age) wasn't a factor. It's what you can do that counts.

They say two things happen when you get older. One is you begin to forget things. And I can't remember what the other one is right now.

We feel good about our quarterback situation. But I don't want to say what we are or aren't going to do. If affects to a degree what your posture will be when it comes to potential trades. We're not looking to wheel and deal on the trade market, but we're sure not going to close it off.

We want to win immediately. To say you're building is an incomplete sentence. ... You're building for a future coach and general manager.

We had hoped to keep Eric. There was an unwillingness on his part to re-negotiate his contract, and we really had no alternative but to make this trade.

He has to be a good teacher. He has to work well with everyone in the organization. And he has to be a straight shooter with his players and, as hard as it is, with the media.

He's young, he's been to training camp, and he's comfortable with it. He's not the nervous rookie quarterback who is trying to adapt and learn while you're waiting for him to develop. He's very much ready to emerge in my opinion. I like his ability to throw the ball.

We will make every effort to retain him, every effort. Dick has expressed the same, and other coaches (here have). He's a talented player who can get better.

I believe that every source possible is important but I still think the backbone of the league is the draft. I'd give the largest percentage to the draft, but it isn't a percentage large enough to win the election. You need more than that.

I was 61 years of age and it sounded too old, so I lied and said I was 58. Maybe as I matured, I realized that your age isn't what's important, but your actions.

Mr. Wilson told me this job would be exciting, but we didn't expect this. This is like getting an all-out blitz on the first play of the game and now we have to adjust to it. But I wish Mike would have stayed. I looked forward to working with him.

When you say you're building for the future, that's an incomplete sentence. You're building for the future coach and general manager, is what you're doing.

I really, sort of, don't even want to comment. I can't answer it because I want to talk the whole situation over. But we're going to address it swiftly.

That is definitely an option in his situation. If we use it, he's the likely person we will use it on, then hope we can do a contract that goes beyond that.

It takes more that just a great coach or a great quarterback or a great anything. It takes the whole package. They still are a distance away from that.

Ability without character will lose. The Bills are going to be a team of high character. That stamp I will push very hard. I hope we can convey that to our fans and project something very special to the rest of the nation.

I still think he has playing ability. But I don't think we can fill all of our other needs with the type of salary cap hit we have to take with him.

The combine has become more expansive than when I was last coached 1997. It still serves a great purpose. It's the first chance as coaches and general managers we have to see these players. Our scouting staff has been following them for a couple of years and know every little detail about them. Now you can see the human element. They're not just commodities now.

We were going to draft Lorenzo White in 1988. Somebody else took him so we had to draft some guy named Thurman Thomas instead.

We appreciate his efforts and wish him well in what lies ahead in his career.

We don't have a hard and fast price. We're still talking. I'll treat that situation as it develops, because it's a big decision.

This isn't a return to the good old days. It's new role which I savor.

We weren't selecting an offensive coach or a defensive coach or a kicking teams coach for that matter. We were selecting the best head coach, the man who was going to direct it and put it all together.

I had bigger things to worry about I had to figure out a way to stop former Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino.

It goes beyond just the Eric Moulds situation. We hope something can be worked out with him. We'd like to keep him and we'll continue to make our efforts to do so.

I've been on top of the game for the past few years and I'm enthusiastic about this, and confident, not complacent.

I got some very good advice once. That was You're not talking to a reporter, you're talking to the public. We didn't hide things. They are a little more guarded now.

But I've done it too. After a game is over, your emotions are right there and it's very easy to say something like, 'If some of these guys don't step up, we're going to have to make some changes.' I've then gone into the locker room and told the guys, 'I owe you an apology.

The past is history, the future is a mystery, today is a gift. I'm an 80-year-old rookie. I will rely heavily on people in the organization.