Jeff Fisher Quotations

We've got both quarterbacks who are extremely healthy right now and capable of playing,

Obviously we will be challenged in the first six weeks with four of the six on the road.

No, Brian. I'm saying that if Boller wants to sit one out, he should do so in true Ravens' fashion: commit a crime and get suspended by the league.

Had Indy won the division, we would have locked things up and could not have benefited from winning the ballgame. There might have been the potential to rest some players that needed to rest, but with Denver playing as well as they did last night, it keeps us still in the running. We're going to rest up the next couple of days. We're going to suck it up and get ready to play.

He's a sure bet. There's no doubt. We were very, very impressed with him.

He's been with a couple of different clubs now and has gotten to work with a number of different players. During Mike's first era there, his receivers were Ed and Rod (Smith). He's gotten used to different players and different teams, and no doubt, he's grown from the experience.

There is a need for experience for guys that have played and been successful and made plays in other systems; there is a need for that. What comes with that is leadership, not necessarily locker room leadership, but leadership by example.

I actually enjoy ice and snow. I just take it slower and pay more attention to my surroundings.

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

He can still improve. Yes, he's catching balls as well as anybody we've had catch ... He needs to pick his feet up, pick up another 10 or 15 yards. ... We all expect him to get better with experience,

Lastly, the holiday season is a season for family, so I guess it makes sense that we will kickoff the holidays with the Manning family visiting Nashville in consecutive weeks.

I think the running game could very well determine the outcome. (But) I think both clubs need to be careful not to commit to the run because I think both teams have a tendency to strike down field.

I was very impressed with every phase, with his personality, his character, his competitiveness, his athletic ability.

We were very impressed with his athletic ability, his footwork, his arm strength, his delivery, his body language, huddle presence, all those things. We're certainly not misled by his statistics. We paid a lot more attention to what he was able to do on the practice field. He's quite a talent. We're very impressed.

We're currently doing tests, and we'll have information for you on Wednesday at 3 if we are able to determine exactly the nature of their injuries.

When you're evaluating a young quarterback, you look at his decision-making. You assume arm strength and ability to throw the ball are there.

We have to look at the future as far as the quarterback position is concerned. That doesn't mean that Steve's not coming back or that he can't play a couple more years, but we're at the point now where we have to address it.

We have to look at lot of things. We are interested in doing it, but whether we pull it off remains to be seen.

We were getting questions about the content of some of the sites, and as a result, we took them all off.

Typically, if a coach is under contract and it's a lateral move, then the permission is denied. But if it's an opportunity to better himself and move from position coach to coordinator, then it's up to the club to decide whether that's really the move that they're describing. If it is, then I feel it's only appropriate to give those coaches an opportunity to help themselves.

You do have to credit Mr. Rooney. We always have had the greatest respect for their organization because he's put his faith in Bill and understands you can't do it every year. It's a great thing. I was really excited to see him have success this year.

We're not done. Veteran presence is important to us.

We'll see how it goes. His health really wasn't a factor. The other side of that is had he been struggling and ailing with something and a question before the game, we would've been forced to have a third quarterback.

When you are deactivating healthy players it's tough, ... But I will cope with this considering last year deactivations were not difficult because guys couldn't play.

We can't afford to make a mistake or telegraph a route or drop our eyes or those kinds of things because they will be all over them.

We're requiring they stay off the ground to celebrate. If they are on the ground, they have to get up. They can't use the ball as a prop, they can't use anything else as an artificial prop.

When you have the amount of coverage that the game is getting in comparison to 10 years ago, they have to find more and more things to talk about. Because of the enormous amount of coverage the game is getting, officiating is getting scrutinized now more so than it has in the past.

You have to be careful when you are talking about Vince because there are people that are looking for things that are wrong. Everybody likes him. You get a chance to know him, he's genuine and real and just a great college quarterback.

We were outplayed in a number of areas today. We know Miami can run the football and we have a great deal of respect for Ricky (Williams). But, we never expected them to do that to our defense, especially when we were in some must stop situations.

We expect our quarterback (McNair) to be on the practice field on Wednesday.

Very impressed with his athletic ability, his footwork, arm strength, delivery, body language, huddle presence, all those things. I thought he handled himself very well. We're not certainly misled by his statistics. We're more concerned with what he was able to do on the practice field. I'm very impressed. He's a talent.

We had several (opportunities) today and we were unable to execute both of our fake punts, which resulted in a field position change.

Discipline is doing what you really don't want to do so you can do what you really want to do.

I've been close to this situation several times in games I've coached. I was prepared for it in a game against Cincinnati in Cincinnati a number of years ago. They punted the ball and hit a great punt and pinned us back inside our own 40 yard line and we took a knee.

They are all going to be real good.

I've played picnic stuff. I suppose I can get up to league standards with a little practice.

I've always liked to run. I did it from a conditioning standpoint, you know. I really enjoyed running, and I do it to stay in shape.

That should fall under the category of unsportsmanlike conduct. Nothing positive to gain from that situation other than push and shove and those kind of things on the field, and I don't understand it.

You're going to have to go back and look at his football skills.

There isn't a lawyer in this town who didn't learn something from Ronnie.

It is settling down. We don't anticipate the worst.

The Bonilla district didn't change - he was winning comfortably in the old lines, and he's winning comfortably in the new lines. So I don't think the redistricting had any impact.

not anticipating him missing any time past Pittsburgh.

I'm not necessarily blaming him. This is just the way things are. This is the way they're going to be. He understands that.

Individual celebration was getting out of hand. The players' association was unanimous in wanting to get this under control.

Individual celebrations are on the verge of getting out of hand. Unless you get it under control, it does get out of hand.

In a perfect world, we'd like both of them to get reps and build toward the start of the regular season, but that's not been the case.

In a perfect world we'd like both of them to get reps and build towards the start of the regular season, but that's not been the case.

I like what all three of them have done.

In this day and age, you're going to have multiple backs. The days of the Eddie Georges are over. You're not going to find a guy that has a career span of nine to 10 years.

Before the draft, every team that's interested in Vince is going to know everything about him.

A successful solution to the client's design needs requires a collaboration of my skills, talents and knowledge with the client's information base, history in their industry and personality.

External research never depends on the size of the payment being received it is primarily determined by what is needed to create the best possible solution to the client's desires and requirements. The research required is also dependent upon the specific project or industry.

For me, between "Reference" and "Sketching & Conceptualizing" is the "Get the Hell Out of the Studio" step. I most often NEED to shut off the computer, push myself back from my desk and escape the studio space to let possible ideas percolate in my gray matter before committing anything to paper or digital imagery as a sketch or a concept.

Really successful designs can be created without software produced "special effects." Identities do not NEED bevels, gradations, 3-D imagery, Web 2.Oh-Oh and other oh so "special" treatments to be great design solutions for clients.

As designers we are influenced both consciously and subconsciously by everything we see around ourselves. Still, we always must try to avoid anything that has been defined as the latest and greatest "trend" in design.

The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.

The phrase "corporate identity design" seems to be a bit exclusive it sometimes frightens the smaller client who can't relate because they don't consider themselves "corporate."

Graphic design was largely about communication in an artistic or creative manner, much like writing is used to convey ideas. Many designers completely miss that aspect of the "art." Some are completely satisfied with just making things pretty, without taking the communication element into consideration.

My kids are athletic, but they don't run.

Discipline is doing what you don't wanna do so you can do what you really want to do.

He's not here. He's not going to Atlanta. We'll hope he's here on the practice field and does enough work so he can go to San Francisco.

If Courtney is going to be slowed a little bit, I have confidence in Pacman being able to catch the kickoffs and return.

The hardest thing to do in this league as I've said time and time again is to back up because you don't get the reps, ... You have to mentally put yourself in position on the practice field as if you were there in person. That's something that takes getting used to.

The challenge this week is we have an offense that can do both now they can run it and they can throw it very, very well,