Quotes from Zac Taylor

But I've been blessed to have some great opportunities and have a great family that comes along for the ride.

Peyton Manning's been my guy since the sixth grade. My cousin bought me a Tennessee Volunteers No. 16 jersey. He's been my guy since then.

There's plenty of times in my life I've coached against my brother, coached against people I've coached with.

Troy Walters and I coached together.

Well, I think I've had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I've been around.

I've been around some great coaches and learned a lot from every single stop I've had.

I take a lot of pride in connecting with people - period.

I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to be in an NFL office.

If I try to be Sean McVay, I'm going to fail, to be quite honest with you. We're different people. I've learned a lot from him, but I'm going to be Zac Taylor and do the best I can my way.

I just go with the flow.

I don't think I'm ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don't have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that's just the nature of the business.

What I do notice is, man, I sleep hard. When my head hits the pillow at night, it feels like five o'clock rolls around real quick.

When you're out there, you aren't paying attention to who you're throwing to. You're looking for the guy that's open.

I'd like to think I have good recall of games I've been a part of and plays I've been a part of.

I think, you think critically all day, you've got a lot of decisions to make, so you've got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.

Also, I'm obviously a big Tom Brady fan. Everybody loves him. I just like guys like that who have worked hard to get where they're at and have had a lot of success.

I've got 'Lost' and '24' on TiVo. And I'm an 'American Idol' fan.

And after my interview with the Bengals, I knew this was the job for me.

Guys who aren't going to be brought down on first contact, they'll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I'm around him.

I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.

My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, 'Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.' And I found that way to work for me.

It's unfortunate to lose guys in their rookie year.

It's all ball, all the time. You have no excuse to not watch anything you've ever wanted to study in your life, especially in the offseason.