Quotes from Bob McNair

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do.

I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.

I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.

Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.

The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.