* “You need to shut the hell up and start playing football.”
* “You came here to be a football player, not a damn philosopher.”
* I’m 47 years old. What the hell, I’m gonna listen to a little wet-behind-the-ears 24-year-old kid who’s done nothing, nothing to be sitting up here thinking we’re going to listen to him all day? Do your job.”
* “He’s a smart enough young man with enough intelligence to know how to say something the first time.”
* “What I’m seeing right now is a team that’s coddling a young man, which is hurting him in the process.”
* “He does a lot of stupid stuff, and it’s about time he hears it, instead of people kissing his tail all the damn time.”
* “I see this one dude who we talk about every day too damn much because he doesn’t know to shut up and perform.”