Top 82 Mcnair Quotes
#1. It was the family tradition. I wanted to live up to the name-McNair.
Steve McNair
#2. J.F. McNair reported that Malays in Perak formally built and instituted a mosque whenever a village grew larger than forty houses.
Rosnani Hashim
#3. Our players are role models; there's no question about it. Whether they want to be or not. They are. So they're in the spotlight. So if they do something that's wrong, that's in the spotlight, too.
Bob McNair
#5. 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.
Bob McNair
#6. I'm a country guy from Mississippi who keeps it simple.
Steve McNair
#7. The franchise tag is worth something to the team, and you can't be afraid to use it.
Bob McNair
#9. Whether or not you reach your goals in life depends entirely on how well you prepare for them and how badly you want them.
Ronald McNair
#11. Our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.
Julia McNair Wright
#12. A quarterback that goes out and performs for you and is a franchise quarterback is more valuable than a player playing another position, but there's a lot more risk there. It's a more difficult position to play, and there are lot more failures.
Bob McNair
#13. I'm proud of where I come from. A lot of people leave Mississippi, and their claim to fame is somewhere else. But I have so many moral values that made me the person I am now.
Steve McNair
#15. Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.
Julia McNair Wright
#17. I'm not ill. I'm healthy. I'm not going anywhere. We've got Super Bowls to win.
Bob McNair
#20. We want people that fit in our locker room. As I said, it's all about teamwork.
Bob McNair
#21. With the physical mindset I play the game with, I expect to get hurt.
Steve McNair
#22. For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.
Julia McNair Wright
#23. I think I've always had the abilities, but the object has been to perform as well as I can.
Steve McNair
#24. 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.
Bob McNair
#25. Pressure is what you make of it. It makes me play harder.
Steve McNair
#26. 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.
Bob McNair
#27. A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.
Julia McNair Wright
#28. 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.
Bob McNair
#29. I thought I was in a better position to get a team than anyone else in Houston.
Bob McNair
#30. As all clocks need winding, so all human brains and bodies need to be wound up by sleeping.
Julia McNair Wright
#31. I've learned to be patient. When I was younger I rushed things a lot. I tried to attack the game. Now I get teammates more involved before I try to take over.
Steve McNair
#32. What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!
Julia McNair Wright
#33. I've never believed anyone could put more pressure on me than I put on myself. People expect great things from me. I expect great things from myself.
Steve McNair
#34. I want people to say when No. 9 was out on the field, he did everything humanly possible to win a ballgame.
Steve McNair
#35. 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.
Bob McNair
#36. Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.
Julia McNair Wright
#37. I'm not going anywhere. My dad lived to be 102. And we've got Super Bowls to win.
Bob McNair
#38. Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.
Julia McNair Wright
#39. 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.
Bob McNair
#40. When you're under stress, your immune system doesn't work as well.
Bob McNair
#41. Some people said, 'Why didn't you sign Peyton Manning?' Well, we just couldn't do it. We would have had to let go of two or three of our outstanding players to create enough room in the salary cap to do something with him.
Bob McNair
#42. We're about winning and accountability.
Bob McNair
#43. Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.
Julia McNair Wright
#44. As a matter of policy from the beginning with our team, there have been three things we've said we won't draft a player: if they've been involved in domestic violence, drug abuse, or if they show lack of respect for authority.
Bob McNair
#45. I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from ...
Julia McNair Wright
#47. 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.
Bob McNair
#48. Little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.
Julia McNair Wright
#50. Look at Baltimore back in 2000. They had an outstanding defense. They could run the ball, and they had a quarterback that didn't turn it over that much. I think that is a plan that can bring you great success.
Bob McNair
#52. We don't like to acknowledge that we're getting older. None of us do.
Bob McNair
#53. I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.
Julia McNair Wright
#54. 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.
Bob McNair
#55. When I get on the field, I feel unstoppable.
Steve McNair
#56. Unfortunately, when we had a No. 1 draft pick, there wasn't an Andrew Luck out there. A lot of that's pure luck.
Bob McNair
#57. Sometimes, in order to be successful, a business must reset.
Bob McNair
#58. It is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.
Julia McNair Wright
#59. I didn't think I was going to die. I knew some did. I knew there were some rumors.
Bob McNair
#60. I'm not a real estate developer. I'm a golfer. I'm a sportsman.
Bob McNair
#61. The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.
Steve McNair
#62. We can take action with a player without the league taking any action. But all that we can do is, we can deactivate him. But we're limited under the collective bargaining agreement to four games.
Bob McNair
#63. We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.
Julia McNair Wright
#64. 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.
Bob McNair
#65. I'm not out trying to prove anything. All I'm trying to do is go out there and help my team any way I can to win. I don't get caught up in the individual stats or the awards.
Steve McNair
#66. I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.
Steve McNair
#67. 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.
Bob McNair
#68. The ear may be a more open organ than the eye when it comes to the pleasure of words.
Charles McNair
#69. The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around its rim, piercing the nose and the lips to introduce rings or bars of jewelry ...
Julia McNair Wright
#70. If you're going to have a satisfactory standard of living, you're going to have to be competitive in this world. And you can't be competitive if you don't have a good education.
Bob McNair
#73. In a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.
Julia McNair Wright
#74. I actually enjoy the pain. That's what gives me the fire inside to get up and keep going.
Steve McNair
#75. The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.
Julia McNair Wright
#76. At nose tackle, you don't have to run that much.
Bob McNair
#77. I knew I wasn't going to play professional basketball.
Bob McNair
#78. The tide has changed. You have to be able to improvise in today's NFL.
Steve McNair
#79. If a local market is supporting the team strongly, you're not going to have a lot of support for a team leaving that market.
Bob McNair
#80. 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.
Bob McNair
#82. Before you can make a dream come true, you must first have one.
Ronald McNair
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