Quotes from Brian Flores

To me, in this league, if your only motivation is what everyone else says, you're probably not going to be here that long.

I think you've got to have an internal motivation, an internal drive, a constant chip on your shoulder.

I think you can do that specifically with players - you can be tough on them, expect a lot from them, but not be somebody they despise.

With your bad plays, you turn around and you forget them, you move on from them.

Anyone who has a family member, son, daughter, brother, cousin who has special needs you understand what I mean about unconditional love. You're going to have some tough times. You're going to have a lot of great times, but you're going to have some tough times, some tough days. It's not easy.

I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do more, that we have to be better, that we have to be exceptional just to stay on a level playing field. And it's in a lot of ways unfair, but I know I'm not alone in that feeling.

I'm gifted to coach. I know that. And the relationships I've built with players, coaches, support staff, I'm gifted to coach and I love coaching and I want to coach.

We ask players to communicate - offensive, defense, special teams. Our staff has to communicate that way also.

I had a good job in New England.

I would say a lot of the things I learned in New England were about putting the team first.

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down.

I tell my players this - I can go out there and get conditioned if I just go out there and run every day. I'm not going to do that, not like they do; but I could do that. Any of us in here can do that. That really takes no talent; it just takes hard work, effort.

I'm going to go into every game trying to win. That's always going to be my objective. I'm going to go into anything I do trying to win. I'm going to instill that in everybody I come across.

I think you want to play complementary football - offense, defense, special teams.

Look, coaching is what I love, it's a passion of mine, a calling. I'm gifted to do it. The reason why is that I love helping young people reach their potential and become the best version of themselves, on and off the field.

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

Any time you pick third overall, there's a number of players and a number of ways we can go.

Minkah's a football player. I think his strength is that he can handle a lot of different positions. He's versatile. Free safety, strong safety, corner, Star, 'backer. You can do whatever you want with him.

We've all got to deal with adversity in life. It's something that's not new to me.

We want the guys to play fast. We want them to play free. We want them to play aggressive.

You know, that's kind of the discipline of playing defense is you've got to stay home when you've got to stay home, but at the same time, we want to be aggressive.

I just think anytime you go through experiences, you get better - whether it's something as simple as scheduling, days off, shells practice versus padded practices, do we defer the coin toss, do we take the ball, do we want to take a timeout in this situation?

I learned resiliency at a very early age.

You don't hit on every player. On every trade. On every draft pick. Show me a team that's hit on every one. And I'll applaud that team.