Top 22 Bob McNair Quotes

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

We concluded that one thing we can do is to just go through the locker room and make sure that if anybody is using anything, it’s a product from one of the approved manufacturers.

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.

If a team needs new facilities, and they’ve been unsuccessful for a long period of time, and the local community is not being responsive, then I think it’s a possibility that team might get a vote to relocate.

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.

If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you’re lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that’s just a matter of luck. You can’t attribute that to anything else.

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

I didn’t think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.

If you want to get a good seat at a Texas A&M game or a University of Texas game, it depends on how much money you give the school.

Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn’t an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that’s pure luck.

I’m not ill. I’m healthy. I’m not going anywhere. We’ve got Super Bowls to win.

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.

Now, would we like to have that super quarterback? Absolutely. And if we have the opportunity to get that person or develop that person, that’s what we’ll do.

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

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

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.