Top 22 Zac Taylor Quotes

Troy Walters and I coached together.

It’s easy to give up. It’s even easier to start pointing fingers.

I have a high opinion of Andy Dalton. Going back to 2010, I think I watched every single snap he played at TCU his senior year when I was at Texas A&M.

I am happy and fortunate to join the Cincinnati Bengals as head coach.

You dream about being in the shotgun and letting your receivers go to work, and making plays with no time left. That’s definitely been a dream of mine my whole life.

Also, I’m obviously a big Tom Brady fan. Everybody loves him. I just like guys like that who have worked hard to get where they’re at and have had a lot of success.

I think, you think critically all day, you’ve got a lot of decisions to make, so you’ve got to make sure that you take a couple of seconds every day to relax your brain a little bit.

Guys who aren’t going to be brought down on first contact, they’ll get you fired up. When you see guys spinning away and getting extra yards, it fires you up.

I learn so much from Sean McVay every single day that I’m around him.

Everyone in Norman knew our block. There were five kids in our neighborhood who started at QB in high school. We had Division-I athletes from a number of sports available to play at any moment.

My father-in-law, Mike Sherman, coached a long, long time, and he just said, ‘Be true to yourself. Be who you are, and people will follow you.’ And I found that way to work for me.

If I try to be Sean McVay, I’m going to fail, to be quite honest with you. We’re different people. I’ve learned a lot from him, but I’m going to be Zac Taylor and do the best I can my way.

I’ve got ‘Lost’ and ’24’ on TiVo. And I’m an ‘American Idol’ fan.

Well, I think I’ve had the opportunity to be around some great coaches and players. And I have been able to learn a little bit, something different from every single one that I’ve been around.

I feel like I’ve learned a lot along the way and I’m ready to lead.

What I do notice is, man, I sleep hard. When my head hits the pillow at night, it feels like five o’clock rolls around real quick.

Peyton Manning’s been my guy since the sixth grade. My cousin bought me a Tennessee Volunteers No. 16 jersey. He’s been my guy since then.

When you’re out there, you aren’t paying attention to who you’re throwing to. You’re looking for the guy that’s open.

I don’t think I’m ever surprised at how high the quarterbacks go. There could be a lot of teams that often times don’t have a lot of first-round grades on guys that are going in the first round, and that’s just the nature of the business.

The people that we met when we lived in Cincinnati, the Midwestern values – I’m from Oklahoma, my wife’s from Green Bay – we felt at home in the year we were here.

It’s unfortunate to lose guys in their rookie year.

I’ve been around some great coaches and learned a lot from every single stop I’ve had.