Quotes from Ron Rivera

A dream is what you fantasize about. It's what you hope for, but a vision is what you plan for. You map out and you have a set of goals, and you go out and you execute that plan to achieve your vision.

My mom's side of the family was farm workers.

I know that somewhere along the line, if I get things in my favor, I think I can be successful.

When you have the right type of people pushing you, man, I tell you what it really helps. It gets your momentum going forward.

I don't worry about things I don't control, so I just keep trying to go with the flow.

I know the reality of the business. But I also say, not in a braggadocious way, that I'm a good football coach.

It's a lot of fun watching Kelvin Benjamin out there grow and develop as a football player.

To have two separate game plans, you're asking for way too much of your team. That's why it's important to have quarterbacks that know your system, understand your system and have been a part of your system.

If you have a settled quarterback situation, you're pretty doggone good.

I always feel like I'm coaching for my job. Just like when I was a player for nine years in Chicago. I came in every day wondering if I was going to get cut. This is no different. I come to work like I did as a player and that's to do the best I can.

If we don't have quality healthcare in our country, I mean, we're the richest country in the world. We should.

I feel that I have to succeed to the highest level I can.

When you become a first timer in a thing, there's no way you can know everything.

I'm proud that I took over a 2-14 team and won back to back to back NFC South division titles.

I'm very proud of the fact that I am of Hispanic descent.

All of the best pass-rushing teams are the ones that seem to have these hybrid rush ends.

Somebody will say, 'Oh, if you go 19-0 you win the Super Bowl.' And I'm like, 'Yeah it does, but let's take it one game at a time. Let's first get to the next game.'

Not everybody will get a chance to play in this league. You know, there's a transition rate of about 300 guys a year, that come into the league and leave the league. So the average career expectancy is a little bit under four years, so that doesn't mean you're gonna play forever.

You wanted to be in the foxhole with Jim Harbaugh. He hates to lose.

It's young men like Greg Olsen and Eric Reid, who are going to change this world and make it a better place.

I love coaching and not just coaching because it's about winning football games, but coaching because you have an opportunity to impact young men and people and that's what I want to do.

The NFL has done a great job of promoting the popularity of the game. There now are youth leagues in Puerto Rico and Mexico. You're starting to see more and more young men with Hispanic surnames come into the NFL and that's a wonderful thing.

I'm fortunate I landed on my feet in Washington.

You got to go back and look at it, what happened when Mike Singletary retired? What happened to the Bears for a while? They were trying to find that next guy. That was the hard thing was, they were they were trying to find that next guy.