Quotes from Herm Edwards

I am looking forward to sharing the knowledge I have accumulated as a player, coach and member of the working media with the students at the Cronkite School.

Being a part of the NFL for 30 years was a blessing.

When you become an athlete, you live in this bubble. You're in the world, but you're not in the world.

Training camp gets long when you compete against your own guys.

People who've watched me on television, they go, 'Oh, that's who this guy is.' So when I walk into their home, they say, 'Coach, you're that same guy! We trust you with our son.'

I believe this, we are all gifted for the talent - God blesses everybody with a talent. Mine was to play football. Some are to be scientists. Some are to be doctors. Sometimes because of the situation you grow up in, you can never display your talent because you can't get out of that situation.

The players think it's all about them! It's not about them - it's about the game of football, man!

When you're on TV, you're still coaching, believe it or not. You're just coaching America, you're not coaching one team.

I believe you bet on yourself and you commit to something and you give all your energy and effort to it, and that's what I've done my whole life.

It doesn't matter where you grow up, what color you are, what religion you are. It's just a bunch of guys that come together for a common cause. Let's go win this game. It's called team.

And when you're a coach your main concern is the players and the coaches. The last concern you have is really about yourself.

The world of football has changed. 'We're going to start a freshman quarterback!' 'Oooh really?!' That was taboo. It's not a shock anymore.

You have an obligation as a player - as an athlete at any level - and it doesn't matter what sport it is. When you sign on, you sign on. You prepare that week to go win. I don't care about your schedule, or how many people got hurt - it doesn't matter. You owe it to the people in the building and guys in the huddle to prepare yourself to win.

I want to spend more time with my two daughters.

I'm Catholic now, I'm Christian, watch out for them Devils.

In life, there's second chances. But that doesn't mean everyone gets a second chance with your team. That's where your moral compass comes in.

No one player is bigger than the team.

To be quite honest, and anybody will tell you, growing up I was going to be a pro athlete. I didn't have any option. That was my way out.

If all you ever play with a cornerback in there is man to man, it is a disadvantage.

My father gave me discipline.

I competed every day as a professional football player... You've got to like competing. That's how your team gets better, when you have competition every day.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

It has to be the right fit. Coaching is about fits.

It used to be that the hardest thing to cover was underthrown balls. Then coaches began to think, 'So why not start throwing back-shoulder fades?'