Bob McNair Quotes

The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.

I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.

I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.

If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.

The radiation was worse by far. I had bandages all over my head. I looked like a mummy. On the side of my head and neck and down to my collarbone, I had second-degree burns. My skin blistered and peeled before it grew back. That was the worst part of it.

When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.

Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.

I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win.

The team comes first. We want to keep all of our players. We want to take care of all of our players, but the team comes first.

Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.

If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.

Experience shows that those people who were selected to be a head coach in the NFL met with more success if they had had head-coaching experience.

I worked for twenty-some years with no capital, so I never had any liquidity. Managing my loans alone wouldn't do it, and working hard twenty-four hours a day seven days a week alone wouldn't do it. You have to be properly capitalized.

Every athlete, I think, would like to play forever. They never want to acknowledge that they've lost a step or they can't quite do what they did before.

We're about winning and accountability.

Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.

Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.

We protected Andre Johnson, given him long-term contracts. Brian Cushing's got a long-term contract. Arian Foster. So certain key players, core players, we've tried not to tie them up for a long period of time.

At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.

A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.

We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.

We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.

Case (Keenum) is going to be the quarterback. We're going to give him a chance to see how he can perform. I think the jury is still out. He's got a lot of ability. He's shown some flashes of brilliance and then he's shown some rookie mistakes. We've got to see if we can improve, eliminate those mistakes, minimize those mistakes and continue some of the outstanding play that (we've) seen and see whether we think that he can be a starting quarterback in the NFL. At this point, we really don't know.