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. – Mike Singletary
Before we can talk about a championship, we have to practice like a championship team. – Mike Singletary
You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on. – Mike Singletary
I’ve really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL. – Mike Singletary
When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they’re not going to be, at the end, they’re not going to be close. – Mike Singletary
I think you can be the greatest orator of all time, the greatest motivator of all times, but if those players know that you don’t care about them, and you don’t try to understand them, then they’re never going to hear what you have to say. – Mike Singletary
The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we’re going to do whatever we have to do to win the game. – Mike Singletary
‘How’ is a great thing to know. ‘Why’ is the ultimate. I’m the ‘why’ coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know. – Mike Singletary
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. – Mike Singletary
All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don’t do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on. – Mike Singletary
Because too many times in life there’s just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I’m always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time. – Mike Singletary
I think a man becomes less than a man when he begins to compromise on what he believes is right. – Mike Singletary
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. – Mike Singletary
The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don’t care. – 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. – Mike Singletary
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. – Mike Singletary
I just feel that after the season that we have to sit down – as well as myself, everybody – and try and look at what gives us the best opportunity to move going forward. – Mike Singletary
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. – Mike Singletary
I’m sure there’s a right way and there’s a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right. – Mike Singletary
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. – Mike Singletary
