Jerry Jones Football Quotations

I have all the confidence that this is going to work out. We know adding a player like this is going to help us become a better football team. And at the end of the day, that?s what it?s all about.

Troy was all about the team. He was for winning football games. He could have passed for big yards if he wanted, but he did what was best for the team.

Defense always catches the offense. Always. No matter what adjustments you make, no matter how initially you sway it, the defense catches offense. It's an evolving thing. . . . I'm not concerned about a long-term advantage. You know we want to move the ball and why we obviously keep changing rules to help the offense. The reason you have to keep doing that is because those defenses keep tightening down. The guys are faster and bigger, and we've got the same width and length of a football field. There's no more room to run, and so you've got to give it a little bit of help.

This decision is a tough one for me personally. Larry has been the best in pro football for a long time.

This is about continuity and building upon the pieces we have in place as an organization and as a football team. We aren't where we want to be at this point, but we're definitely moving in the right direction and feel very good about the future.

Football has been an inspiration to people who have other troubles. There are problems throughout New Orleans and Louisiana. We owe to those people not to take football from them.

Is [football] for everybody? Of course not. But it is a meaningful contribution beyond, I think, other alternatives.

I take a good feeling away from what football brings.

It's the premium time, the fourth quarter. October, November, December and now, if you will, going over into the first quarter in January. But really, football, that's when the interest is in the game.

The part of football you don't see with all the buddies I ever had, we might have gone out and thrown some passes, but we never went out to knock the hell out of each other just to do it. You do that when the time comes to push the ball downfield or keep it from going down the field. That's why I think football has a great place.

I promise you that during my life, I was more concerned about not letting people down, about doing my part, than I was ever into what it did for me. That is one of the great things about sports, and frankly, football really does instill that.