Marvin Lewis Quotes (145 Quotes)

You're a combination of all those things, but you learn that you have to set the direction, and I learned a lot of that from Bill. You always have to adjust, but you always have to have a starting point, as far as a direction, a game plan. It all ties together.

If we're not successful, we'll change the move, ... The job is to win football games. It's like we showed the confidence in Jon last year. We've just put the ball in Carson's hands and are showing the same confidence in him. If he doesn't get it done, we've got to go with Jon.

We were very pleased to win the game. It has been a long time coming and we have a lot to learn from it. Sporadically we did a lot of good things in every area. We are not off to a good start, we just won one football game.

Our guys have to sit there and understand and go through the fact that the Steelers, they did it the way we want to do it. Take your hat off and be proud of what they did and happy for them, but know that we're 0-and-0 right now.

In both cases, we have had good conversations with representation for both guys. Within the next two, three weeks, we hope to have discussion from their point of view back and see where things are. As we get closer to free agency, both sides have the oppo

It had to be pried out of Marvin Lewis that this was the best all-around win of the 18 in his 34 games as Cincinnati's coach. But that is what the Bengals' history of losing demands. I would say, yes I have to give in, ... We came out and moved the ball well on offense and played good on defense.

Chad's a kid who is really maturing, ... I said to him, 'You don't need to draw attention to yourself by making statements like that. What you're doing on the field is drawing enough attention.' But hey, we'll grow from that.

It's a tough decision. It should be. A lot is determined how we practice during the week,

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.

I don't think it's a letdown, I just think we have to make plays. We sat and hung around, but we never knocked them out. You have to stop them and knock them out.

He brings a lot of ability and character to our football team.

I've not seen (many) teams that ever have one guy cover one guy anyway, so it really doesn't matter. As much as he moves around and we move around and he's left and right, it doesn't matter. It's not even relevant. So thus, I guess there really is no list. See How about that I solved it. I solved it, so you don't have to ask any more questions about it. ... There is no list because it's not relevant, just a figment of the imagination.

Nobody's worried about us. What have we done ... We've done nothing. We've been 8-8. We haven't done anything. Why should they worry about us

What We can go 6-10 and make the playoffs ... Did we move to the NFC West

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

Yes, we did tackle a little bit better. Tackling is about attitude. You use your hips to finish and grab cloth and get the guy to the ground.

He's understanding what his role and responsibility is. I think he's confident in those guys wherever the ball goes because they make plays. It's not like we have to go to one guy I think he's confident in all of the guys.

I told the guys that that's a victory to be proud of,

I don't know that they've had any success yet. We're so young, it really doesn't matter to them. They come out of successful programs in college, so they don't know any different. You've only got 12 guys that don't know what success is.

No, I dont need to (answer). Hes probable.

Kevin has been a fine player for us, and he deserves the opportunity he'll get in Houston to be a starting receiver. But as we build our roster for the upcoming season, we believe it's in the best interest of our team to allocate these funds to another position.

Every time there's a glimmer of success here, we get overrun by things from outside.

There was nothing flat about that, ... When you get punched in the face, that's what happens. That's an excuse Flat didn't drop balls. Flat didn't miss assignments. Flat didn't commit penalties and miss tackles.

When picking fourth, you know from day one hes going to be a starter. Drafting later, that guy might not jump off the board 100 percent of the time.

Those people aren't good for you. They're not people who are on your side when the times are tough. That's the way it works.

The guy got hurt, forget it, let it go. We don't get it back. We're not going to baby and cry like their quarterback did. It's ridiculous. A guy got hurt.

I showed them the Rams' Chicago game and I showed them the San Diego game, and how they went right down the field the first drive. But in the second or third series, those defenses made plays. So I told our guys hang in there and we'll adjust. It's hard to replicate their motions, their shifting in practice. But we'll get a feel for it when we see it live. It just takes some time.

I'm happy where we are at 7-2. I don't think we had any major injuries today. When we come out of the bye, it looks like we should be at full strength.

Guys who have the aptitude like him usually pick up things very well. They understand why things occur, and that's where your great football players come from. They're guys who can handle the change of things and react. They're not needing to be coached through every element.

In the big scheme of things, that person needs to look at themselves. Number one, for even speaking about the incident, and number two, for embellishing on it. For not really telling the truth. That's even worse.

You can't purposely go out and hurt somebody. I've never seen that happen in the NFL. So I don't think there needs to be any resentment.

We're going to learn from the whole getting there (to the playoffs), and then what happened. It was inevitable. And we didn't deal with (the attention) as well as I thought we would. It just shows our lack of maturity and experience. We made the playoffs. Now we have to win a playoff game.

He didn't play as well as he needs to play, and he needs to keep playing better,

There was (the) ability for us to take advantage of some NFL cap numbers and rules if we got this completed in time. This is a foundation, and now we're able to move on and know where certain things are spent and allocated.

(The division title) means a lot but there's still a lot to do. I'm excited about the opportunities. I know I sound too much like a coach, but I'm worrying about what's ahead.

I'm excited. Now we can set the course and stop reading about how great we are. I think it was needed and very timely to play a real football game.

We won't know where things are until we go out and begin playing football when it counts. That's the hard part of it. Even if he had been here every day, no matter who it is, what position, there's always something new that comes up, and how people handle those situations is always tested. That's why it's not an exact science.

As I keep saying from the day he walked in here, the guy no matter what he touches can turn to gold.

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.

Gee whiz. The guy got hurt. Let it go. There's nothing you can do. You can't get it back. To sit there and baby and cry like their quarterback did - ridiculous.

It just tells you that we have a good football team, but we need to play good at all times or that's what's going to happen. We have enough good players and a team that has some resolve.

I don't think it does, ... We prepare to play the Pittsburgh Steelers. I've coached there and coached against them for a number of years, and it doesn't change.

It's unfortunate. We're not going to sit here and baby and cry like their quarterback did.

Obviously you draft a player, (and) you really, really, really like the player. You really, really want to coach him.

We hung in there toe to toe, but we have to make plays to win. We're a good football team. In order to prove that, we have to go beat the other good football teams.

Wow. After 17 weeks Man Don't put Marvin Lewis in that decision. Good decision by Chad. He wants to focus on the week, and that's good.

I'm excited. I'm different than I was against Denver (2003). Last year we played on Sunday night (against Miami). That was something new and neat for our guys.

He did a fine job last night, probably his best game that I remember where he didn't have eight to 10 catches because he hustled his tail off, he blocked. So as I watched that tape this morning, I was proud of Chad Johnson for how he played.

Our team needed to win games, ... As I said a zillion times, we could not afford to lose football games and having somebody to blame. All that would've done is give people an excuse to say, 'They're losing because of the quarterback position.'

He feels like he's invincible, but right now he knows he can go win it the next play. He doesn't have to win it on every play. And I think that says a lot for how he is and how important he is to this football team.