Mike Singletary Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I'd rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.”

“If a dad does his job, we don't need prisons, we don't need jails. That's what I saw growing up.”

“'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.”

“I've really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.”

“The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don't care.”

“You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.”

“Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.”

“Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.”

“The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we're going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.”

“I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down - as well as myself, everybody - and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward.”