Brian Flores Peculiar Quotes

Brian Flores Peculiar Quotes

Brian Flores Peculiar Quotes

We're always looking for more improvement. We're always looking for more consistency.

— Brian Flores

I'm always excited when it comes to coaching football, mentoring guys and them becoming better people.

— Brian Flores

My mom always got me underwear for Christmas. That's my favorite gift.

— Brian Flores

Everyone's got things going on in their lives.

— Brian Flores

The Rooney Rule is intended to give minorities an opportunity to sit down in front of ownership, but I think what it's turned into is an instance where guys are just checking the box. That's been the case. I've been on some interviews in the past where I've had that feeling.

— Brian Flores

Anyone who has a family member, son, daughter, brother, cousin who has special needs you understand what I mean about unconditional love. You're going to have some tough times. You're going to have a lot of great times, but you're going to have some tough times, some tough days. It's not easy.

— Brian Flores

My mother's the toughest person I know.

— Brian Flores

Any time you pick third overall, there's a number of players and a number of ways we can go.

— Brian Flores

I think with an offseason, with some OTAs with more reps, more repetitions like any player, they develop and get and get better.

— Brian Flores

Look, that rookie year you got a lot going on. You got to get a house, you got to get a car, you have to move to a whole new city. I mean, there are so many things that are going on.

— Brian Flores

I try to be clear and direct. That's part of leadership.

— Brian Flores

I think everyone likes direct. They might not like it in a specific moment, but... I'm always gonna push 'em to do more. That's just me. I try to be truthful and honest and transparent, and if they don't like it, then so be it. And that's OK. I think they respect that and they know where I stand.

— Brian Flores

I think there's a discipline, a toughness, a respect for the game that I learned in New England that I think is just basic, the way football's supposed to be taught and practiced and preached.

— Brian Flores

Those things that are basically foundational - hard work, high standards, playing for your teammates, putting the team first - those things are ingrained in my fabric.

— Brian Flores

I'm gifted to coach. I know that. And the relationships I've built with players, coaches, support staff, I'm gifted to coach and I love coaching and I want to coach.

— Brian Flores

I have a belief that there's good in people. I just do.

— Brian Flores

I deal in truth.

— Brian Flores

I learned resiliency at a very early age.

— Brian Flores

I'm very prepared for difficult moments.

— Brian Flores

I'm black. I grew up poor. I grew up in New York during the stop-and-frisk era. I've been stopped because I fit a description before.

— Brian Flores

I'm the son of immigrants.

— Brian Flores

I think leadership is about being honest. It's about being transparent. I think it's about putting yourself in the shoes of others.

— Brian Flores

I think it's important to connect to people. When you can do that, I think you can get more out of them. That's part of my leadership style.

— Brian Flores

I think you can do that specifically with players - you can be tough on them, expect a lot from them, but not be somebody they despise.

— Brian Flores

We ask players to communicate - offensive, defense, special teams. Our staff has to communicate that way also.

— Brian Flores

I would say a lot of the things I learned in New England were about putting the team first.

— Brian Flores

Culture is very important.

— Brian Flores

You have to make sacrifices if you want to do what you want to do in this world. If you really want something you make the sacrifice. If you don't, you don't.

— Brian Flores

I come in, I work hard, I do everything I can to help the team win and wherever the chips fall they fall.

— Brian Flores

How I've always kind of approached everything is I take everything day to day.

— Brian Flores

I don't think about the future very often.

— Brian Flores

You're going to have hardships, you're going to have a lot of good plays, you're going to have bad plays.

— Brian Flores

With your bad plays, you turn around and you forget them, you move on from them.

— Brian Flores

Well, it's always a goal to be consistent all the way throughout the game.

— Brian Flores

We want the guys to play fast. We want them to play free. We want them to play aggressive.

— Brian Flores

It's always good to win.

— Brian Flores

There is never been a perfect game played. That's just never happened.

— Brian Flores

Well, every down is important and every snap in the game is important. We try to let our players know that.

— Brian Flores

I mean, we never know what play the game is going to come down to, so we want everyone to be good. But yeah, first and second down are obviously very important.

— Brian Flores

You can't have a good play without good fundamentals.

— Brian Flores

You can say all you want about first down, second down, but it starts with fundamentals.

— Brian Flores

You know, that's kind of the discipline of playing defense is you've got to stay home when you've got to stay home, but at the same time, we want to be aggressive.

— Brian Flores

I'd say I love the challenge of game-planning for the opponent every week.

— Brian Flores

One play can change a game and one call can change a game.

— Brian Flores

I had poor ball skills and I tackled decently.

— Brian Flores

Well, I think anytime you can sack the quarterback, that's great. With that, when you're sacking him, you're pressuring him, and I think no quarterback likes having pressure on the edge or up the middle. So, yeah, I value pressures a lot, and I think that goes a long way toward marrying a rush and the coverage and playing really good defense.

— Brian Flores

I think you want to play complementary football - offense, defense, special teams.

— Brian Flores

Football brings people together, from all races, nationalities; so yeah, I think the NFL does a good job of that - a great job of that - and I'm sure they'll continue to do that.

— Brian Flores

Take it one play at a time. That's what we try to do.

— Brian Flores

You need discipline to play this game.

— Brian Flores

I'm tough on the players. I think you need to be tough on them so they can be disciplined.

— Brian Flores

I wasn't in a rush to become a head coach. I really wasn't.

— Brian Flores

I had a good job in New England.

— Brian Flores

I've had guns pointed at me by police officers.

— Brian Flores

I've worked so hard to get to where I am in football, to become a head coach.

— Brian Flores

I want to coach football. That's what I'm called to do.

— Brian Flores

I would say the hardest part of my job is I don't get to spend as much time with my wife and kids as I would like, but I also try to get as much time with them as possible.

— Brian Flores

Every day is a challenge in this league, but I kind of embrace it and enjoy it.

— Brian Flores

I'm not really into individual awards, especially in a team game like this.

— Brian Flores

I just think anytime you go through experiences, you get better - whether it's something as simple as scheduling, days off, shells practice versus padded practices, do we defer the coin toss, do we take the ball, do we want to take a timeout in this situation?

— Brian Flores

I think the term tanking, I think it's disrespectful to the game. I really do. I don't like that term. I don't like when people use it.

— Brian Flores

This game has done a lot for me personally. I've said this before, football really leveled the playing field for me as a person.

— Brian Flores

I'm going to go into every game trying to win. That's always going to be my objective. I'm going to go into anything I do trying to win. I'm going to instill that in everybody I come across.

— Brian Flores

The goal is to put the players in the best position to do what they do well.

— Brian Flores

I think you've got to have an internal motivation, an internal drive, a constant chip on your shoulder.

— Brian Flores

To me, in this league, if your only motivation is what everyone else says, you're probably not going to be here that long.

— Brian Flores

It's football. You need 11 guys on each play and go out there and play together, play as a team.

— Brian Flores

We believe in developing players and improving players on a daily basis. That would be the opposite of giving someone a 10-game audition.

— Brian Flores

I think I try to look out for the best interest of the players individually, the team.

— Brian Flores

I remember being a first-year position coach and going into next season saying 'I should have been better last year, I'm better now.'

— Brian Flores

I'm my own man. I'm Brian Flores.

— Brian Flores

Look, coaching is what I love, it's a passion of mine, a calling. I'm gifted to do it. The reason why is that I love helping young people reach their potential and become the best version of themselves, on and off the field.

— Brian Flores

The National Football League is an example to the world, it really is. People follow the lead of the National Football League - that's how powerful it is.

— Brian Flores

I learned how to be tough, and that transcended into something else, that I wasn't going to back down from anything, academically, football wise, any challenge I was presented with.

— Brian Flores

I think I'm good at compartmentalizing and taking care of what I've got to take care of.

— Brian Flores

We lived in the projects in Brooklyn, the elevator used to be broken, and we used to walk up 20 flights of steps and then walk down.

— Brian Flores

Every decision is tough, letting go a player.

— Brian Flores

You don't hit on every player. On every trade. On every draft pick. Show me a team that's hit on every one. And I'll applaud that team.

— Brian Flores

Look, you can never have enough quarterbacks.

— Brian Flores

I would say I felt similar pressures that Black people feel in all fields, not just football. That we have to do more, that we have to be better, that we have to be exceptional just to stay on a level playing field. And it's in a lot of ways unfair, but I know I'm not alone in that feeling.

— Brian Flores

The numbers speak for themselves as far as the hiring, firing and the lack of opportunities for minority and Black head coaches and executives in the National Football League, and we need the change.

— Brian Flores

There's instances where you do everything right and you work hard and things don't work out. That's part of life, and it ends up being life lessons for some guys.

— Brian Flores

I'm going to try to get our team to work hard, play together, play with good fundamentals and technique, play as a team, try to put the team first. That's a hard thing to accomplish as a coach. That's my goal. You can call it whatever you want. You can call it 'Patriot Way,' but to me, it's just trying to coach and play good football.

— Brian Flores

I've had the privilege of being a part of many different circles that have included some very powerful and influential people of all different races and genders.

— Brian Flores

This idea that players were kneeling in support of social justice was something some people couldn't wrap their head around. The outrage that I saw in the media and the anger I felt in some of my own private conversations caused me to sever a few long-standing friendships.

— Brian Flores

At the end of the day, you never want turnovers anywhere.

— Brian Flores

I'm trying to challenge all my players. I'm going to do that how I see fit.

— Brian Flores

I have been in this league for a long time, and if you are not motivated on a daily basis, you won't be in this league long - that's players, coaches, that's personnel, that's everybody.

— Brian Flores

I think every team's rebuilding. That's this league. Every team rebuilds every year because no team is the same every year.

— Brian Flores

I'm passionate about coaching.

— Brian Flores

Anytime I get to get out there, to help somebody with a technique, a fundamental, I'm in my happy place.

— Brian Flores

I try to direct my energy to things I can control.

— Brian Flores

Minkah's a football player. I think his strength is that he can handle a lot of different positions. He's versatile. Free safety, strong safety, corner, Star, 'backer. You can do whatever you want with him.

— Brian Flores

We've all got to deal with adversity in life. It's something that's not new to me.

— Brian Flores

None of us are exempt from tragedy.

— Brian Flores

I think being genuine, and being authentic, is a big part of leadership.

— Brian Flores

This is a demanding league, so we've gotta be demanding on our players. They need to understand that.

— Brian Flores

Early is on time, on time is late and late is forgotten. Is it a rule? No. It's my personal mantra, and I feel like I have a lot of respect for time. I really do. It's precious. We shouldn't take it for granted.

— Brian Flores

I tell my players this - I can go out there and get conditioned if I just go out there and run every day. I'm not going to do that, not like they do; but I could do that. Any of us in here can do that. That really takes no talent; it just takes hard work, effort.

— Brian Flores

Everybody talks about, 'This guy is talented; that guy is talented.' The talent on the team and a lot of things in this game come down to focus, execution, not making a bad penalty. Really, that's not a talent issue. It's a focus issue; it's a mindset issue.

— Brian Flores

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