Denny Green Quotations | Page 2

Tony is a fabulous coach, ... He was ready for his head job. I just think it's all about opportunity.

We're facing a challenge right now, injury wise.

We're really disappointed. We felt we'd get off to a much better start than this,

And we have about eight guys who can play guard or tackle.

Vince is going to be a great player in the National Football League. I don't have a clue what his score is, and I don't think it matters what his score is. He was a great player in college and I think he'll be the same thing in pro football. If you can play, you can play.

What Peyton is doing is phenomenal. It's a totally different approach than what Dan Marino did in 1984. It's a system where he just dissects you. He makes you wrong.

We felt he still has what it takes to be a winner in the league and to be a leader. Difficulty is a part of the game. There are very few guys who have clear sailing in the National Football League.

Things have to go the way you want them to go, and I think that's probably what upsets me the most as a coach.

We were fortunate to win at home last season (against the Rams and Seahawks).

The Secret of success is to start from scratch & keep scratching

We moved the ball OK, but you've got to be able to score points and you've got to be able to slam the door.

We've played 12 matches in only eight days and our team is improving with every match. Our doubles teams are starting to play the way they should be being consistent from the baseline and aggressive at the net.

There will be times where you reinforce your thought process. A lot of times, you need a reminder because it could come up in the draft. It always does, you look and say, 'Are we sure this guy isn't better than that guy?' You say no, this is why this guy is rated higher than that guy.

You have to understand that this is the all-time completion-percentage leader in the history of the NFL, ... This is the second all-time quarterback rating. He has been phenomenal when given the opportunity.

With his shoulder, I don't think we saw everything that he could do.

You go down to Florida State and he is kind of the No. 1 guy on a team with a lot of big-time players. They fashioned him to be on the level of a Derrick Brooks when he came out of there and (he) was a big-time leader and helped them win a lot of games.

You look at his ability to go out and run the football, and that's an element we just have to have. We are extremely excited. We had a great weekend.

Both games we got behind you are not running the ball nearly as much as you want to. Hopefully we can rectify that.

Broken noses do occur in the game, unfortunately. He kind of got a blow right in between the facemask and his helmet. We'll know more about that once we get an idea from the doctors.

Some spots you have to be a starter or it doesn't work,

Field goals are the second-best thing you can get. The first thing you want are touchdowns, but you don't turn your back on field goals, because they are points. But we just have to have better balance.

That's why they (the Giants) went after Plaxico (in free agency), because he is definitely a factor. He's a big guy, strong, can go catch the ball, so you're going to have to really battle him. That was part of the reason why we picked Antrel Rolle. He has size and can line up against any big guy. And we have Macklin, even though every now and then he has gotten beat, he can come back and beat the guy. That's why he made so many plays last year.

There's no way that I would have come back to coaching if I didn't want to win, because winning is a big part of my personality, regardless of what I do.

We had a chance to get Reggie Swinton and jumped on it, ... Reggie was a guy we almost got two years ago. We almost got him last year. We think he'll give us that explosive, big-play capability that we've been looking for.

Adrian Wilson is really one of the best safeties in the game. (But) you have to win in order to get some recognition.

I like all three of the quarterbacks. It's like ordering steak: Which kind do you like?

I never once said I was going to change the stigma, ... What I said was I'd make the Arizona Cardinals more like me, and I'd be less like the Arizona Cardinals.

I never have any hard and fast rules like that. What I believe in is that the team deserves for me to make the decision on who the best guy is to help us win.

I'm as excited and enthusiastic about our opportunities here as I have ever been.

I?m catching a lot of hell is what I?m catching. It has been difficult for us to not meet our expectations this year. We had a good draft last year and the year before. Unrestricted free agency was good to us last year. We are optimistic because we think we have cap room. I think the draft will be good for us this year. Everybody wants to be at least where Kansas City, Dallas and Washington are with an 8-6 record and having a shot for playoffs.

I'm hopeful. Everybody is working hard. (James) knows a lot of players here.

I made the decision to change our O-line. I don't think you can turn around half a program. If you're going to turn it, you have to turn the whole thing.

I'm just surprised I'm not doing a better damn job. The job I thought I could do, I've not been able to do right now. And I'm not happy about it.

I'm just surprised that I'm not doing a better damn job,

Oh no, there are none. I think keeping him off the field is the best way to defend against him. Put them in a situation where they have to maybe play catch-up and give their intentions away sooner than they want to or not be able to go deep.

Oh, no, there are none. Keeping him off the field is the best way.

I just believe that if you want to turn the program around, that defensive toughness, the physical nature of the game defensively, the spirit is probably the best way to do that.

The beginning of the season is going to be crucial, and I think that we have our hands tied in a lot of other different injuries that we're probably going to have to ride it, ... And you just can't only ride so long with players that are injured.

A runner has to have holes to run through. J.J. needs holes,

Not many receivers do a lot in the preseason, ... Some of the best receivers haven't even caught a pass. I think they've (Boldin, Fitzgerald and Johnson) had a good training camp. It's not the game. It's really more about working every day. I think by the time the season starts, they'll do very well.

Their quarterback was getting hit a helluva lot more than ours was. I know that.

The key thing for us is, we're picking (No.) 10, so you've got to love 10 players. It's real simple.

They did not kick a field goal. We spent a lot of time in the red zone. Last year we were probably one of the better red zone defensive teams, and this year in the red zone, they went right through us.

It's hard, though, because it's a big ballpark. It's like in the outfield, there's a lot of room between center field and the right fielder, and you just hope you can close it.

I just know that Kurt's a great competitor. He did very well when he was playing for the Rams. He still wants a stage. He'd be like any other performer that lost the stage. He wants another stage.

I'll let Tony talk about that. I know what he's going to do, but I'll let him talk about that.

I just think that he'd missed a bunch of games, ... I don't think you can knock the rust off as well as you'd like to in one game. I thinks he thinks he'll play better this week, and hopefully he will.

I just think there is a shock thing that's going on right now. Tragedies are very difficult things for people to deal with regardless of why they happen.

I didn't feel the National Football League would put us on TV without it and I was right, ... And us being 0-3, I'm not going to argue with them right now.

He's the kind of a leader that guys respond to and he's been in a lot of big battles. We're trying to get Kurt to come up and establish that he can still play like he feels he can play.

He's ambitious. If you look at the guys who started for us last year as first-year players, regardless of what their exceptional talent levels were, they were ambitious. They wanted to get on that field, and Elton fits that category.

The second (half, the Giants were) making plays after plays after big plays and us making no big plays, a lot of bad plays and giving up momentum,

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Any time one of the 32 teams loses a starting quarterback, it probably makes a difference.

The mourning process is not over. That will go on for a long period of time. I think he felt there were things he had to accomplish still this year, and he had to get back to the task of doing it.

The first unit, we wanted to go halfway through the third quarter. I think that John has only been closing the games out. We wanted him to play a little bit more in the third quarter. This week, Josh will be in his customary second team when the second unit goes to play.

The full closure of Highway 330 has been postponed until Monday, Sept. 19,

You've got a reason to play, and I think if you have respect for the game, you try to win. We'll try to show that on Sunday.

You've got to be patient in those aspects of the game. It can't. I mean, we're just happy that everybody's reached agreement. I think he'll be pleased with his contract, and as long as it's a fair deal, then I think we can live with it.

The guy who has been doing it, (Dan) Sheldon, was in a battle with Redmond for doing that (punt returning). We've got Charles Lee who has been doing kickoffs, we got Damien Anderson and we'll probably claim a guy.

It's not working. You have a lot of strategies, you plan strategies and you want them to work. Now we're sitting 0-3 and played very poorly in the second half.

It's not just one man (who will make a difference). But we'll play better because we're now more accustomed to things.

I told them I better not see a camera. I don't even want to see a camera phone. This is a football game, and it's a division game. It's an important game for us. We're 0-3 right now, and San Francisco is 1-2.

The numbers caught up with him (Bridges). Hopefully someone will claim him. I think Jeremy can be a good player in the league. I felt that way before, but this year just didn't work.

It seems like just yesterday when we were all together in Minnesota. I remember James, who was about 6 or 7 at the time, just loved being around the facility and the team and most of all being around his dad.

It seems like too many people, whether the fans or the media, all of a sudden think this is a typical season, ... There is no such thing as a typical season, not for the Cardinals, not for San Diego, not for Minnesota.

What's gnawing at me is the fact that I've not done as well as I expected to do.

It was a type of game, defensively shut them out and didn't get them in the end zone. Offensively, we made some mistakes early . . . but never got discouraged.

The more you lose close games, the easier it is to lose close games. We would like to turn that around. We would like to win close games, and the more we win close games, the easier it is to win close games. To do that, we had to make some changes. I feel very strongly about that.

It's hard to get anything passed that favors defense.

It's hard to say (if his illness contributed to Davis' play), ... We're all grown men. We're all disappointed. He was very sick all (Sunday) morning. He got IV's. The doctor made a judgment that he could play. Leonard made a judgment that he wanted to play. When it's over, we don't make excuses. We don't make alibis. And we really don't cry about it, and we move on.

It's hard to say. Most people get a feel for who you are based on your philosophy. Even if they haven't played you, they know what your philosophical base is, who mentored you, and they get an idea of what you are going to do based on that.

There will be 30-40 trucks running up and down the hill hauling the ground-up asphalt,

This is the reward, the dessert when you have an outstanding stadium. Now you can operate like the other 31 teams.

This is the reward. This is the dessert. This is what you get when you've got an outstanding stadium. Now you can function like all the other 31 teams in the National Football League. In fact, you can function better than they can.

This man was loyal and very devoted to his job.

I don't think the balance of the programming should be achieved at the expense of the one program that distinguishes us. Are we potentially slapping the man right in the face?

He's one of the better players on our team. I think that he's established he's one of the better receivers in the game. His numbers reflect that.

I don't think we could his or Marcel's because we didn't really have any (running) lanes. I think maybe the second carry or first carry, we knocked off about 12 yards. We were hoping that was going to be indicative of how we were going to run the ball yesterday, but we didn't.

He can go deep, ... You know, he has speed; he has exceptional speed, and so he does give us that fifth receiver. I think J.J. would have done a solid job for us, but he has never been that much of factor as a receiver. Swinton has been.