Top 55 Brian Flores Quotes

Take it one play at a time. That’s what we try to do.

I think there’s a discipline, a toughness, a respect for the game that I learned in New England that I think is just basic, the way football’s supposed to be taught and practiced and preached.

I’m passionate about coaching.

I’m always excited when it comes to coaching football, mentoring guys and them becoming better people.

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.

There is never been a perfect game played. That’s just never happened.

I have been in this league for a long time, and if you are not motivated on a daily basis, you won’t be in this league long – that’s players, coaches, that’s personnel, that’s everybody.

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

At the end of the day, you never want turnovers anywhere.

I learned resiliency at a very early age.

We’re always looking for more improvement. We’re always looking for more consistency.

I try to be clear and direct. That’s part of leadership.

None of us are exempt from tragedy.

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

Every decision is tough, letting go a player.

Well, it’s always a goal to be consistent all the way throughout the game.

I think every team’s rebuilding. That’s this league. Every team rebuilds every year because no team is the same every year.

I think it’s important to connect to people. When you can do that, I think you can get more out of them. That’s part of my leadership style.

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’m black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I’ve been stopped because I fit a description before.

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 remember being a first-year position coach and going into next season saying ‘I should have been better last year, I’m better now.’

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.

I’m not really into individual awards, especially in a team game like this.

I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but… I’m always gonna push ’em to do more. That’s just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don’t like it, then so be it. And that’s OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.

I’ve worked so hard to get to where I am in football, to become a head coach.

I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn’t going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.

I want to coach football. That’s what I’m called to do.

I deal in truth.

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.

This idea that players were kneeling in support of social justice was something some people couldn’t wrap their head around. The outrage that I saw in the media and the anger I felt in some of my own private conversations caused me to sever a few long-standing friendships.

It’s football. You need 11 guys on each play and go out there and play together, play as a team.

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.

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’m trying to challenge all my players. I’m going to do that how I see fit.

The goal is to put the players in the best position to do what they do well.

You can’t have a good play without good fundamentals.

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 have a belief that there’s good in people. I just do.

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

The National Football League is an example to the world, it really is. People follow the lead of the National Football League – that’s how powerful it is.

I don’t think about the future very often.

How I’ve always kind of approached everything is I take everything day to day.

I’m the son of immigrants.

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

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

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

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.

I mean, we never know what play the game is going to come down to, so we want everyone to be good. But yeah, first and second down are obviously very important.

The Rooney Rule is intended to give minorities an opportunity to sit down in front of ownership, but I think what it’s turned into is an instance where guys are just checking the box. That’s been the case. I’ve been on some interviews in the past where I’ve had that feeling.

I’ve had guns pointed at me by police officers.

You’re going to have hardships, you’re going to have a lot of good plays, you’re going to have bad plays.

This is a demanding league, so we’ve gotta be demanding on our players. They need to understand that.

Everyone’s got things going on in their lives.