Mike Singletary

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

The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

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

Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

It's very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that's what we're focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we're focusing on that, then that's not good.

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.

The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy's a minister, he's so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team.

I am sure there is a right way and a wrong way and in today's life, there are many different rules of being politically correct.

Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you've made some choices, and maybe they weren't the right choices, and that it's all coming to an end.

My first game, I played the first play of the game and called a timeout and got sat down, got benched for the rest of the game, and we won the game. It was the longest day of my life. Long day. Very embarrassing.

I feel that a great coach is one that has a vision, sets a plan in place, has the right people in place to execute that plan and then accepts the responsibility if that plan is not carried out.