Quotes from Rex Ryan

I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.

There's no way I'm going to be second fiddle.

Nobody's more loyal than me as a football coach, I can tell you that.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

I know I put forth an effort to try to build a championship team and to be a champion. And it hasn't worked out.

I hate wine. I like beer!

I'm not a red wine guy.

I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that's the guy. He'll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there's no coach I respect more than him.

Our dad is recognized as being one of the great defensive coaches, probably arguably the best, in the history of the game. You can't say he's not in the top five, certainly.

The one thing I always knew was Dad would always be there for me. No matter what the situation.

It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.

How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.

Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.

I'm always going to be myself and I'm a good person.

You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.

I want people to know that you can have dyslexia and still reach your goals.

I'm not a phony. I'm the real deal.

Dez Bryant's a great player. You can't take that away from him.

This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.

I want success for Woody Johnson, I do.

The neighbor's kid was bullying my kid. Crossing the line. Threatening him all the time. I went over there to tell him what was going on. I had on flip-flops. I wasn't there to fight. It was a misunderstanding between a couple of dudes where one thing led to another.

If I think a guy should handle things differently, I'm going to say it.

I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself.

We have won five Super Bowls as a family, but we want to win our sixth at some point. And I want to win it as a head coach, because that has never been done in our family.