Mike Singletary Quotes

• You want to learn everything that you possibly can, chew it, digest it, and take it for what it is, and then move on.

  Mike Singletary

• You never really know about a quarterback until he plays in a real game.

  Mike Singletary

• When you look at a family, if you have a family that never interacts with each other, never has strong conversation with each other, never has disagreements, nine times out of ten you have a very cold family and they’re not going to be, at the end, they’re not going to be close.

  Mike Singletary

• The thing that I want to do, the most important thing to me is winning. How we do it, I really don’t care.

  Mike Singletary

• The No. 1 thing is you want to be able to win the game, and we’re going to do whatever we have to do to win the game.

  Mike Singletary

• The fact that I was a believer, a Christian, everybody immediately thought this guy’s a minister, he’s so nice and, oh by the way, he can play a little bit. The other thing for me is being undersized. What a great story, what an overachiever, kind of like Rudy.

  Mike Singletary

• The bottom line is winning. I want to do what we need to do to win football games.

  Mike Singletary

• Sometimes you get to a place in life where you feel you’ve made some choices, and maybe they weren’t the right choices, and that it’s all coming to an end.

  Mike Singletary

• Players respond to coaches who really have their best interests at heart.

  Mike Singletary

• Players have responsibility, and if they don’t do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don’t do their job, things happen.

  Mike Singletary

• Our quarterback is going to be Alex Smith.

  Mike Singletary

• One thing I want you to understand is if I make a decision, it’s my decision.

  Mike Singletary

• Nobody intimidates me.

  Mike Singletary

• My first game, I played the first play of the game and called a timeout and got sat down, got benched for the rest of the game, and we won the game. It was the longest day of my life. Long day. Very embarrassing.

  Mike Singletary

• It’s very important that you focus on winning games and being consistent down the stretch. I think that’s what we’re focused on. All of the other stuff about who wins and who loses and how many wins do we need, if we’re focusing on that, then that’s not good.

  Mike Singletary

• If a dad does his job, we don’t need prisons, we don’t need jails. That’s what I saw growing up.

  Mike Singletary

• I’ve really gained an appreciation for what coaches do since I returned to the NFL.

  Mike Singletary

• I’m sure there’s a right way and there’s a wrong way. The bottom line is you have to do what you think is right.

  Mike Singletary

• I’d rather play with 10 people and just get penalized all the way until we have to do something else rather than play with 11 when I know that right now that person is not sold out to be a part of this team.

  Mike Singletary

• I want winners. I want people who want to win.

  Mike Singletary

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Birth:	9th October, 1958
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Coach, Football Player

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• 2002 - Randy Castillo
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