Bob McNair Quotes & Sayings

We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games. — Bob McNair

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time. — Bob McNair

I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman. — Bob McNair

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that's what we'll do. — Bob McNair

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized. — Bob McNair

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before. — Bob McNair

We're about winning and accountability. — Bob McNair

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him. — Bob McNair

Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset. — Bob McNair

Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We're going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He's got a lot of ability. He's shown some flashes of brilliance and then he's shown some rookie mistakes. We've got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we've) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don't know. — Bob McNair

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education. — Bob McNair

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do. — Bob McNair

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market. — Bob McNair

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston. — Bob McNair

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures. — Bob McNair

I have a deep faith in God. — Bob McNair

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well. — Bob McNair

I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors. — Bob McNair

The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it. — Bob McNair

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it. — Bob McNair

We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it's a product from one of the approved manufacturers. — Bob McNair

As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority. — Bob McNair

If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school. — Bob McNair

I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win. — Bob McNair

Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success. — Bob McNair

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience. — Bob McNair

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork. — Bob McNair

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first. — Bob McNair

I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win. — Bob McNair

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too. — Bob McNair

I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball. — Bob McNair

If a team needs new facilities, and they've been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it's a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate. — Bob McNair

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else. — Bob McNair

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much. — Bob McNair

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck. — Bob McNair