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

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt. — Julia McNair Wright

In a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor. — Julia McNair Wright

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

I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now. — Steve McNair

Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder. — Steve 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 do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us. — Julia McNair Wright

Human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance. — Julia McNair Wright

We're about winning and accountability. — Bob McNair

A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes. — Julia McNair Wright

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you! — Julia McNair Wright

I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback. — Steve McNair

I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over. — Steve 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

The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ... — Julia McNair Wright

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

I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself. — Steve McNair

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It was a decade marked by death. Violent and inevitable. Funerals became engraved on the brain, intensifying the ephemeral nature of life. For many in the South it was a decade reminiscent of earlier times, when oak trees sighed over their burdens in the wind; Spanish moss draggled blood to the ground; amen corners creaked with grief; and the thrill of being able, once again, to endure unendurable loss produced so profound an ecstasy in mourners that they strutted, without noticing their feet, along the thin backs of benches: their piercing shouts of anguish and joy never interrupted by an inglorious fall. They shared rituals for the dead to be remembered. — Alice Walker

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

Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us. — Julia McNair Wright

There can be no real beauty without neatness and order. — Julia McNair Wright

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

Fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order. — Julia McNair Wright

The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past. — Julia McNair Wright

The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL. — Steve McNair

Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life. — Julia McNair Wright

I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can. — Steve McNair

For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household. — Julia McNair Wright

Simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light. — Julia McNair Wright

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

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

The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words. — Charles McNair

I have a deep faith in God. — Bob McNair

J.F. McNair reported that Malays in Perak formally built and instituted a mosque whenever a village grew larger than forty houses. — Rosnani Hashim

Little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime. — Julia McNair Wright

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

Disorder is the slowest worker in the universe. — Julia McNair Wright

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well. — 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'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple. — Steve McNair

Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness. — Julia McNair Wright

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

Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one. — Ronald McNair

I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards. — Steve 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

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

With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt. — Steve McNair

When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable. — Steve McNair

I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from ... — Julia McNair Wright

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

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music. — Julia McNair Wright

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

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

It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair. — Steve 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

True courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed. — Julia McNair Wright

As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping. — Julia McNair Wright

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

I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense. — Julia McNair Wright

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years. — Julia McNair Wright

Home is the place where true politeness tells. — Julia McNair Wright

I said that we should be all right if we had some cigarettes. I only meant this as a joke; nevertheless half an hour later McNair appeared with two packets of Lucky Strike. He had braved the pitch-dark streets, roamed by Anarchist patrols who had twice stopped him at the pistol's point and examined his papers. I shall not forget this small act of heroism. We were very glad of the cigarettes. — George Orwell

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large. — Julia McNair Wright

I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame. — Steve McNair

Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause. — Julia McNair Wright

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

It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning. — Julia McNair Wright

Our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession. — Julia McNair Wright

The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it. — Steve McNair

If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not a thing of masses and of spasmodic efforts, then a true idea would begin to tell upon the habits of our domestic life, for the thrift and thriving of the individual is the thrift and thriving of the nation. — Julia McNair Wright

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

A tear-drop of green. — Ronald McNair

Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them. — Ronald McNair

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

The less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues one's self unknown,' so if you have no reverence in a world where there is so much that is noble and venerable, then there will be something terrible lacking in your own character. — Julia McNair Wright

One Yard Short exposes those "he's not a winner" arguments for the suckerpunch they are, showing the keen edge that separates champions from also-rans. McNair earned immunity from such taunts that day, proving that he could, even though he didn't. Thoughtful fans can return to that moment when pondering the legacy of other players, who may have come up five yards short, or twenty, but could still see the end zone, still gave their teams a chance at glory: A loss is not always a failure. — Mike Tanier

I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going. — Steve 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