These John McKay quotes are funny. John McKay’s press conferences after Tampa Bay football games are the stuff of legend. McKay was a funny man who could deliver a punch line.
His quotes included, “Can’t stop the pass or the run. Otherwise, we’re in great shape.”
Check out our funny John McKay quotes below.
Funny John McKay Quotes
- When asked about his team’s execution: “I’m in favor of it.”
- We didn’t tackle well today, but we made up for it by not blocking.
- Intensity is a lot of guys that run fast.
- We’ve broken down the expansion teams, and they’ve averaged winning 2.7 games their first year, which to me, is rather difficult. I figured out the 2, but the .7 has got me wondering what the hell is going on.
- Emotion is highly overrated in football. My wife Corky is emotional as h@#$ but can’t play football worth a damn.
- On his team’s blocking strategy: “Hold when you’re at home and don’t hold when you’re on the road.”
- Kickers are like horse manure. They’re all over the place.
- If you have everyone back from a team that lost ten games, the experience isn’t too important.
- We knew he kicked the ball low, so we put the tallest guy we had in there on defense and told him just to get to the line of scrimmage and hold up his arms. I call that brilliant coaching.
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John McKay on Coaching
- On how coaching an expansion team is like a religious experience: “You do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answer is ‘no.’
- I’ll probably take a little time off and go hide somewhere. We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back, and we will be a better football team.
- There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home.
- No coach, no matter how successful, ever completely escapes the pressure of winning.
- On the Buccaneer’s ineffective special-teams play, “They were absolutely horrible, and that’s the best thing I can say. Besides that, they were bad. These people are not poorly paid, you know.
- Nobody becomes great without self-doubt. But you can’t let it consume you.
- The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible.
- There aren’t many secrets in coaching. Well, there’s one secret: Get a guy like Warrick Dunn, throw him a screen pass, and watch him run 52 yards with it.
- You do a lot of praying, but most of the time the answer is ‘no.’
John McKay Quotations On Football
- On Joe Namath’s play during the Jets’ 34-0 victory over Tampa Bay, “Namath is still Namath, but I must say that our guys were nice to him. I noticed when they knocked him down; they helped him to his feet. That was gentlemanly. I thought one stood around long enough to get his autograph.”
- There were times I felt like leaving the stadium and hitchhiking home. (On how badly the Bucs looked in losing to the Steelers 42-0)
- Every time I look up, it seems we’re punting.
- Namath is still Namath, but I must say that our guys were nice to him. I noticed when they knocked him down, they helped him to his feet. That was gentlemanly. I thought one stood around long enough to get his autograph.
- It’s shattering when a player loses interest in camp. When you lose your interest in standing around eating steaks you lose everything.
- I told my team it doesn’t matter. There are 750 million people in China who don’t even know this game was played.
- Three or four plane crashes and we’re in the playoffs.
- We will be back. Maybe not this century, but we will be back and we will be a better football team.
- God’s busy; they’ll have to make do with me.
On Losing
- Boy, do I hate to see that scene in the dressing room where a player gets up with tears in his eyes and says, ”We’ll get ’em next year.’ ‘Damn it,’ I think, ‘why didn’t we get them this year? Don’t worry about the next one. Next year may come and we may all be dead.
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McKay Insights
- When he heard that one of the kickers during training camp, Pete Rajecki, had said he was nervous kicking in front of his coach, McKay asked that the press “Tell Mr. Rajecki that I plan to attend all the games.”
- If a contest had ninety-seven prizes, the ninety-eighth would be a trip to Green Bay.
- The only problem with doing the impossible is that everybody expects you to duplicate the impossible.
- These guys are almost gutless, and the ones that aren’t that are brainless.
- Can’t stop the pass or the run. Otherwise, we’re in great shape.
- I’ll never be hung in effigy. Before every season I send my men out to buy up all the rope in Los Angeles.
- I had a rather distinct advantage. I slept with his mother. (On recruiting his son.)
- Well, it certainly wasn’t Idaho. (When asked if Notre Dame was the team he most liked to play.)
I hope you enjoyed these quips from coach John McKay.
By Mike O’Halloran
Founder and Editor, Sports Feel Good Stories
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