Marvin Lewis Quotes on Football (16 Quotes)

You've got to go do what you're supposed to do. The good thing that we accomplished tonight was taking care of the football.

It wasn't his best effort. He will play better. He was hobbling a little bit, but that's part of football. He's one of our guys who we expect to play better. He's one of our leaders and best players. So we're counting on Levi, just like we're counting on (right tackle) Willie (Anderson).

It's an exciting week for the city. For our football team, I'll keep them calm and let's just get ready to play the football game. But I think for everybody else it's going to be an exciting week.

I have no doubt in my mind that it's time for our team to achieve success. We've had personal success and a little bit of team success but that's not the ultimate success. The only way to get the ultimate success is to become a football team totally. When

We don't need to spout off. Let's play football.

I don't pay attention to any numbers, ... Numbers are not how you play football. We made a decision to keep Craig. Casey did a good job. It was a very, very close call, and we kept Craig.

We have an opportunity to have a home playoff game in Cincinnati. We still have a lot of football to play, but it's time to stop hiding from it. It's time to go sit in the front row.

Our guys are grown up now. It's time to work and act like a team. They've had individual success. They've had a moderate degree of success as a football team. So it's time now to go beyond that.

He's got a lot of football ahead of him here.

We had an opportunity to make some things happen that we didn't get done early in the game. Some things that you can't do in a football game. Eventually, the game gets away from you.

The truth is he's been even better than we expected so far, ... Just the other day against the Jets, to move and avoid the rush and it's all getting knocked back into him. He's so big and he's got the presence to move away from it. And then when he runs, he's fast enough that they can't catch him, and he's able to still throw the football. He's learning that he's got to dump the football in the NFL and not make a bad play worse. But he is learning that.

He is just so, so fast, and has a great competitive spirit about him when he gets an opportunity to get in the football game.

We made a lot of mistakes. When you make a lot of mistakes, you can lose the football game. That's the way it is. We've said this before. It's medicine. It doesn't taste good, but it's good for you.

Offensively, we didn't convert the third down, and they get the ball. And the very first play, we get the ball back, ... So that's a big play in the football game, no question.

First of all, you must have the ability to run the football and take care of the ball offensively.

Tory has great hand-eye coordination and great anticipation of the football. He's taken that job, and the pressure of it and the short memory that you've got to have at that position, and become very good at it. He's a great student of the game.