Jon Gruden Life Quotations

I'm an optimistic guy. But I'm also very realistic. I just don't want to stand up here and say something that is inaccurate when it's involving a key player and an injury of this potential magnitude. I just sit and wait. That's kind of how my life goes sometimes.

I was very happy with the last three days of it. The first 10 or 12 days, he was sluggish. He missed the whole offseason coming off of surgery. The last two or three days particularly, you see the life in his legs, the stamina, the physicalness that he possesses.

In my lifetime in the NFL, he is the best back I've coached. I'll say this about him; he is as tough as they get. The look in his eye is going to give our football team a chance every Sunday.

I don't want to inflate his start or deflate his start. In my lifetime in the NFL, he's the best back I've ever coached.