Ron Jaworski Quotations

Positive thinking is the key to success in business, education, pro football, anything that you can mention. I go out there thinking that I'm going to complete every pass.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

It could be a walk in the park, it could be a ride on your bicycle. It does not have to be an organized team activity... Be as creative as you want, but find a way to get your exercise in.

There's a way you have to play the quarterback position in the NFL. Maybe I'm a little bit old school, but I think you have to play the game in the pocket with consistency.

As much as I like to be thoughtful and think things through in my decision making - I don't like knee jerk decisions - but I'm not afraid to make decisions.

I'm a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn't a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders' head coach - but because he's been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

As I learn more and more about the six-year extension of the Collective Bargaining Agreement, it's obvious to me that NFL owners understood that they were going to get a new deal done at all costs.

But when you get into a situation where you can acquire a proven leader, a proven quality player, an unselfish player, a guy who taken a team to the Super Bowl, I think you do it.

To go to the next level, you have to be special, and I look for those special qualities in those players, those qualities that I think will translate to the NFL.

You learn by mistakes. When you make those mistakes, you try not to make them the third time or the second time. You learn from them. Sometimes you learn the hard way. In football, if I held on to the ball too long, I got my butt kicked. You better make that decision quicker.

The challenge coaches face is replacing players they were counting on to be major pieces of a puzzle. In a lot of cases, there is just no way to make the necessary adjustments.

In my career, I played for four different teams in a lot of different systems, and it's like learning another language.

The city of Wildwood has been fantastic in helping us and supporting this event. This is a small way of the Soul saying thanks to our fans.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

I'm not a Saban guy, because I don't like liars, and I think he lied. I think he lied to the Miami Dolphins and to the fans of Miami, and he left. And it's pretty simple: I think integrity is very important; if you don't have integrity, I don't know how you can be successful.

One of the things I noticed more in this draft than in any recent drafts was the importance of the character issue. Players who had baggage, like Justice, fell much farther than his talent dictated. But a lot of coaches didn't want to take the chance.

A labor strike will tear away a lot of the good things going for this league.

I love to see Favre playing his best football, and if his mind his right, he'll probably have a fine season.

I think Philly is arguably the best sports town - football town - in America.

The Jets seem to be a franchise in freefall.

We had a very exhaustive, extensive search for the guy that is going lead our football team over the next few years. We spent about two months in an in-depth interview process, and Bret came out with flying colors. We are absolutely thrilled that he is our head coach.

I've addressed this before, and I'll say it again: The league has to take a long, hard look at full-time officials. The officiating has been inconsistent all season long.

The simplest way to win in the National Football League is to knock out the starting quarterback. You know, throughout the years, history has proven if your number one quarterback goes down, your chances for success become very limited.

We have a lot of rule changes. I am part of the competition committee. We spent a lot time evaluating the game, how do we make the game better for our fans.

More than anything, it gets down to how Andy Reid and Donovan McNabb hold this whole thing together,

He has a difficult time extending the play when the receivers are covered, and then he makes bad decisions. When Joey moves, he isn't seeing the field with clarity.

Jaws, how long am I going to feel like this?

People may want to call it the Moss factor or whatever they want, but there is no doubt in my film study, the vertical stretch that Randy brought that offense is sorely missed right now. When I look at the tape from last year with Moss in that lineup, you've got safeties sitting back there 18, 19, 20 yards, sometimes not even on the screen (of the coaching tape).

I thought I really liked him coming out. I saw an upside. But I don't see the growth you like to see in a young quarterback, decision-making-wise and throwing-wise.

When you're involved in the National Football League, the competitiveness never leaves you,

To lead the league in attendance is mind-boggling. I know as well as anyone, you've got to win in Philadelphia and that's our goal. You've got to start winning.

Quarterbacks make a big difference in the playoffs. With Rex Grossman, the Bears are a team that can conceivably beat you on offense as well as defense, whereas I don't know that you could have said that about Jim Miller.

Now I'm seeing those safeties sitting in the 14, 15 area a good 5-yard difference. They (the safeties) don't have respect for the deep game. Consequently the windows to throw into become smaller.

They're both serviceable guys. Clearly one of them has to jump out.

It's as hard as I've ever seen it on anybody.

It's like that old saying about real estate -- it's all about location,

Not like that other club up in New York that only has one award a year.

It's really basic stuff at this point that they have to learn to do better. It's one-on-one, combination blocking stuff that they have to do.

I know that Dan Marino, Donovan McNabb and Randall Cunningham didn't exactly blow the top off the score, and they were pretty darn good football players. There is some validity to it, but the main thing is: Can you play football? And one thing that jumps out at you is what an incredible athlete he is.

If nothing else, it's going to be an interesting season in Philadelphia.

I know how much the coach puts into it. Everybody in Kansas City understands the work ethic of the man. You just don't walk away from that and not take a piece of it with you.

In every meeting I've ever been in, the quarterbacks and receivers sit with each other and the quarterbacks coach is constantly directing things at those guys and they're constantly going over details,

I think A.J. is a little slower in processing information. Gus has more experience and playing time; he's a little quicker at reading defenses and getting the ball out. But A.J. has all the tools to assimilate more as time goes on.

I just hope that's enough, ... because the Eagles have a lot of things working against them now, too.

He only had to make one or two plays a game, and he could play to that defense. Not to denigrate the job he did there, because he did a terrific job.

These guys know how to pick themselves up and regroup, and that's in large part, because of the leadership on that team,

I truly believe Colin Kaepernick could be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever,

Colin Kaepernick has the tools to be one of the greatest of all time

I love it when receivers catch the balls with their hands.

When I first came to the Eagles, I found a bunch of guys shell-shocked from losing. They had been through some lean years, they just didn't know how to handle the pressure. They were quiet; they kept to themselves. I said, " Hey, this has gotta change. Let's make pressure fun."

No one's ever gotten better by practicing less.