Mike Singletary

Athlete

31 Quotes

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.

I'm sure there's a right way and there's a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.

Every day I've got to get up and make a decision. I have an opportunity every day to affect young men and the coaches that are around me, the entire organization and the entire community.

When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they're not going to be, at the end, they're not going to be close.

Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.

Nobody intimidates me.

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

I want winners. I want people who want to win.

I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.

You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

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