Quotes from Jeff Fisher

I was a pretty mediocre player.

Player safety has been an essential focus for us for a number of years.

Some of the decisions that you make are not permanent.

When you have trust, it gives you a better chance to be successful.

There's a general feeling if you take the cut block out of the game, then you're going to significantly impact the run game.

You address the respect issue in a team-meeting environment. With respect to its application, it's not just locker room. It's practice field. It's on and off the field. It's on Sunday, and it's on game days.

It's not a born-again thing; it was a peaceful, really, really cool moment where I just felt that I was no longer the dad anymore. I actually had become a son, and it makes things much easier from a day-to-day perspective.

From our perspective, the most important thing is what you do with the players, how you handle them, your ability to communicate with them.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.

There's going to be different kinds of challenges on a yearly basis. You're going to have to overcome injuries, or you overcome a playoff loss or what have you. So there's always challenges in this business.

We push players beyond their limits and expectations every day. We ask them to take risks. Sometimes, as coaches, we have to remember to do that with our decisions, too.

Those that coach 10 years that take a year off are three times better coaches... in year 11.

Discipline is doing what you don't want to do so you can do what you want to do.

Here's the thing about life, you get back what you put into it. Life is defined by what we choose to do with it, the things we commit to, and where we dedicate our time. Life rewards those who work harder, who care more, who give it their best, then give a little more.

We have to sell a gameplan, and you have to be enthusiastic, and you have to have energy come Wednesday, Thursday, Friday.

You need continuity. You need a commitment and continuity.

I couldn't identify just one, but there's numerous rule changes and points of emphasis that have reflected a change on the field almost immediately. It's hard to avoid the horse-collar tackle, for example, but the players understand why the rule is in there - because of the injury rate prior to us making that a personal foul.

You're moving a franchise. You're leaving one city and going to another, which is difficult from a fan standpoint, from a fan-base standpoint, but you have to take care of the detail things. As you go through that step-by-step process, from my standpoint, my job is to keep in mind the player needs.

Since 2000, it's been a privilege and honor for me to be on the competition committee. And our main focus... is player safety.

You're always having those life-skills type discussions about decision-making. It's just making sure you're making good decisions and going about your business. There are distractions in every city.

Our teams always play hard.

There's a handful of teams that have a revolving door, that are changing coaches every couple of years, and you can look at the success that they're having. They're not.