Mike Holmgren quote: "The tough thing in this league about playing the linebacker position is that as a rookie you are seeing many things for the first time and you are going against athletes that you didn't always play against when you were in college. The physical part of it is tough, but they have handled that beautifully. Then it was just a matter if they could handle the volumes of material that are expanded a little bit when you get into our league."

It usually to takes three or four years to really look back on a draft.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We didn't know when we signed up for this thing, four months ago when she did, that we'd be in the S...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He is as hard of a working lineman as I've been around. Offensive linemen are usually that way, but ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We said, 'Just stand over there and do what you are supposed to do.'.
MIKE HOLMGREN

First of all, you're not supposed to,
MIKE HOLMGREN

His big thing was his equilibrium. He has dizzy spells. We're not going to rush him to anything and ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Anytime someone wants to compare me to Joe Gibbs, it's a compliment. He's one off the guys that if I...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He is in a battle for his life, ... He is one of my favorite guys on the team. That is pretty much a...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We're all attempting to keep our feet on the ground.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Michael has good instincts and good breaks on the ball. He's not undisciplined. Some of those guys w...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He has great hands. We knew that. He's a big target. I think his speed is a little underestimated. A...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I kind of knew the reasons why we took that dip and I felt we could get ourselves out of it. As much...
MIKE HOLMGREN

This is a new team, a different team, and they are responding differently. It's been that type of ye...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I know he's not very polished, ... But he'll fit in perfectly with my new eight-year plan to get thi...
MIKE HOLMGREN

The plays were good plays, and I think we prepared properly. But really it's about the players makin...
MIKE HOLMGREN

As soon as they make some arrangements, he'll know and I'll know. We have to see. That's the first t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Fortunately, my owner talked me out of it.
MIKE HOLMGREN

They get a lot of mileage out of [a wide receiver screen]. They throw it out to [Smith] quickly and ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's like, OK, we're playing the game and those guys are upstairs doing whatever they are doing,
MIKE HOLMGREN

It was never more evident than in the game [Sunday] with all the penalties that came directly becaus...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We went through all that craziness with dropping the ball -- not just Darrell, but all the receivers...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Talk about a no-name group. I know that phrase has been coined before, but we are kind of that group...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's not necessary to go down there and hang out down there, ... This wasn't an isolated incident in...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Our receiver position is very competitive and it's open. None of those guys can afford to drop a pas...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Now our second season starts. Fortunately we have a first-round bye, so we can heal up a little bit ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

They have you outnumbered just a little bit. Now it is safer, I suppose, than throwing a pass, but y...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's probably something we're going to have to baby a bit all year,
MIKE HOLMGREN

So that was a little bit scary there. That should have been done a little sooner, in my opinion.
MIKE HOLMGREN

When Herndon intercepted the ball, he could have gotten some yards on the return,
MIKE HOLMGREN

Our depth in the secondary, particularly with our nickel back and dime back coming in, was not good ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I am very pleased to announce that we were able to raise over $190,000 for Northwest Medical Teams t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He is feeling much better, ... But I don't want to minimize what happened.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think [the game against the Cowboys] helped us. I think their styles of play and what they ask the...
MIKE HOLMGREN

The only thing I can think of (for the Steelers being favored) is that they beat Indianapolis, which...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It really is a team in the truest sense of the word. The sum of the parts is greater than the indivi...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Heck, I get excited about it just like any coach would, particularly if you think it cost you a ball...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I told Matt at halftime that he had to shoulder the load. We always put a lot on his shoulders, but ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He is a great guy and he's getting better, which is the important thing. The things that were bother...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I didn't think he scored.
MIKE HOLMGREN

The only statistic that counts is the score at the end of the game. Give credit to the Steelers. The...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I had all those young guys in Green Bay all at once. It was a little scary having all young quarterb...
MIKE HOLMGREN

That team (Green Bay) was a little bit more of a star team. We had more than a couple guys that were...
MIKE HOLMGREN

As happy as the other locker room is, that's how disappointed we are.
MIKE HOLMGREN

There are charts and graphs and all this kind of stuff. That factors into that contract, particularl...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's almost impossible not to pick those guys if you need a quarterback because they don't come arou...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I always approach it the same way,
MIKE HOLMGREN

We've kind of been on his shoulders a good portion of this year.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I'm kicking it to our medical staff. If they say, 'No, he can't be there,' he's not there.
MIKE HOLMGREN

The other guys have to crank it up a notch.
MIKE HOLMGREN

So we had gone out to dinner, and I'm in a sweater and slacks. I was just going to pop it up and mak...
MIKE HOLMGREN

As I've told the team, ultimately you'll be judged by what happens and where you are at the end of t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

That can take up to four weeks, is what I've been told,
MIKE HOLMGREN

I told him sometime in the season we were going to be in the exact situation, and he was going to ma...
MIKE HOLMGREN

In the NFC, I wouldn't care to guess who's going to be there at the end,
MIKE HOLMGREN

I don't think it was that. I think it was just the fact that he was back playing, period. I'm sure 1...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I cant tell you how long its going to be, ... Cartilage scopes typically can be two weeks, sometimes...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He came out of that game pretty sore. Washington is a tough physical defensive football team, and we...
MIKE HOLMGREN

This year we hit the crossbar against Washington early on.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I'm very happy about that and so was he. He was disappointed because he fumbled on the last carry an...
MIKE HOLMGREN

If this were to be his last game, then I'm really glad I was here. He has nothing to prove to anybod...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Did I feel we needed it? No more than normal, that part of it. Did I want it? Yes. All the things th...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Wow, great story. That's an area we have to look at, but he certainly has done everything we have as...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He certainly had a great season, and I think he is the perfect fit for what we ask the quarterback t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He brought the team back when it was kind of grim. When you see a quarterback do that, it always tel...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Honestly, there was some discussion on our coaching staff as to who really should continue being the...
MIKE HOLMGREN

If a guy becomes available the caliber of Peter Warrick, I think we're going to bring him in, look a...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I really don't know how good we are yet, ... It sounds odd, but we are still finding out some things...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Nothing has been talked about yet, we better just leave it at that.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Seneca Wallace is a good player. He just hasn't played.
MIKE HOLMGREN

That was very distasteful to me, to retaliate so to speak like that (against the Vikings). I do beli...
MIKE HOLMGREN

That was very distasteful, our having to jump into something like that and retaliate, so to speak. I...
MIKE HOLMGREN

On the second (run) we did not block very well. I tried to get more (yards). But I tried to get it w...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He has probably been our most consistently good player inside. I tease Rock about it. When he is goi...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He bumped into me way too much during the game, so that is the third thing he's got to do, stay away...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We sat down after that. That won't happen again.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I have had it with that stuff. I have a very short fuse with that stuff.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Be careful how you phrase that. I'm not surprised how he's playing and I didn't want to let him go. ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Steve Smith, for his size, is very, very strong -- physically a strong guy, has strong hands.
MIKE HOLMGREN

It was crisp for the most part. They made very good decisions. This team practices well. They kind o...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Look, I get excited about it, just like any coach would, especially if you think it might cost you a...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Against a good team like the Steelers, that is not a good combination — and it was the story of th...
MIKE HOLMGREN

They needed the week off. They were a little banged up and sore, so why not?
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think we have to wait on that. Let's just wait on that to make sure that what is written and what ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We had a good practice. I was pleased. The enthusiasm and execution were pretty good.
MIKE HOLMGREN

As clean as we were against New Orleans, we were that sloppy against Dallas tonight. We were just ca...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Almost always in the playoffs, if you have too many turnovers, you're going to lose.
MIKE HOLMGREN

There were five or six players that left, and the five or six players that we brought in to replace ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He came in not with a chip on his shoulder, but with something to prove.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Joe was such a pleasure to watch, ... He didn't waste any movement. He was smooth. It was like liste...
MIKE HOLMGREN

You see a guy like Marquand get thrust into a role and you're not sure what's going to happen, but t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We just changed some of our packages so it gets to be seen more. Plus, everybody knows that this cou...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We wanted to keep Ken Lucas. And in free agency ... Carolina offered him just a phenomenal financial...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I want to hug him more than strangle him, but it's close,
MIKE HOLMGREN

My hope is, we'll have him down the stretch.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I probably didn't even have to say that,
MIKE HOLMGREN

To get this thing to quiet down we all just decided he has to not practice, not play, ... Otherwise ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Sean has played pretty well so we're going to let him play, ... But we're going to get Chop (Womack)...
MIKE HOLMGREN

There were a couple of times we could have gotten the ball to Peter, and they probably would have be...
MIKE HOLMGREN

As good as we were (in the 34-15 win over) New Orleans, ... we were that sloppy against Dallas (on M...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Being the personal protector, blocker for Shaun Alexander and then look what Shaun has done.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I probably bruised him ... myself. I didn't think we played very smart on offense.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Chris is very steady. He's had a fine year. He gets overlooked. They tease him about it. I tease him...
MIKE HOLMGREN

At the league level -- and I sit on the committees that talk about this stuff -- they want to do eve...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think Seneca Wallace grew up a little bit in the preseason when we needed him to,
MIKE HOLMGREN

Statistics can be misleading. The only stat that counts is the score at the end of the game.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Coaches are bad patients -- and Ray may be the worst.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Next season, I would expect more from him. I'm always going to push the envelope a little bit, and I...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He got popped good a couple of times and kind of bounced up. All that was good.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think he's going to be fine. He had a concussion but there are grades of concussions. If I showed ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Going through a Super Bowl week without something like this would be unusual.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think he's bright and courageous. I think Matt's best years are still ahead of him.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We have played better than we did tonight. Unfortunately, it's the biggest game of the year.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Well, we were behind, or whatever I have to say. We get into that thing where there is a certain amo...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He's acknowledged in the league as one of the best position coaches.
MIKE HOLMGREN

At the end of the year, if you have a guy who scores 20 touchdowns, gains 1,500 yards, goes to the P...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We need Walter to feel real good. I always feel good when he feels good. I'm going to be careful wit...
MIKE HOLMGREN

This is a tough pill to swallow. We accomplished a lot this year. While you don't have a great feeli...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's a tough pill to swallow, but we can build on it. We accomplished a lot this year.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think it was necessary, and now in retrospect, I'm glad I did it.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I said to him (Alexander) that if I were to put him back in the game and he were to get hurt, I woul...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I'm an emotional coach. I get angry. I get happy. I get sad. I get disappointed. I get frustrated. I...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I talked to a number of players on the team -- including our offensive linemen -- they really wanted...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I tried to get more yards, ... I'd like to have gotten closer.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Tonight, there were some things I would have liked to have seen him handle a little differently, but...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Let me say this. It's uncharacteristic of my team to have that many penalties.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Honestly, when Bill and I visit, we don't talk about football as much as we do about our families. H...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We're going to miss 'Chop,' but I feel we can handle this,
MIKE HOLMGREN

This happened every year I've coached in this game. By Thursday or Friday they get a little cranky a...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I get angry. I get happy. I get sad. I get disappointed.
MIKE HOLMGREN

To have the story of the Super Bowl be the officials, that was crazy. I was more angry and frustrate...
MIKE HOLMGREN

The good thing is that his injury has healed up.
MIKE HOLMGREN

As a household we are very sensitive and as an individual I am very sensitive to this sort of thing,...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We wanted him to have the record, he wanted to have the record, the linemen wanted the record for hi...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We wanted him to have the record, he wanted to have the record, (and) the linemen wanted the record ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He came in about 5:45 this morning. As soon as we finish in here I'm going to send him home. We're g...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Really, what I told Mike was — and I put myself in the same category — you get so caught up in t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

There are grades of concussions. I think if I showed [Alexander] a picture of a truck, he'd say it's...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He's worked very hard. He's bought in. He hasn't given up when it seemed a little grim at times in t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We had a couple of chances to gain some yards and we ran laterally instead of up the field. At the s...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think we made a little mistake last year not throwing him in there sooner. He would have struggled...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I did realize how hard it was. I think coaches realize it a little bit sooner than players do. I had...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We haven't created many turnovers and we've kind of lost the field position battle, but we're hangin...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I think we had a little addition by subtraction this year and more guys bought into what we were doi...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I've been fortunate enough to be around good lines before. Those guys [on the 49ers' line] were toge...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I tip my hat to him that way.
MIKE HOLMGREN

The impressive thing ... was that he was pretty poised. At times, it gets a little hectic in there a...
MIKE HOLMGREN

The good news is with rest -- I believe and our medical people believe -- he will get better.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I talked to him Saturday morning, and he was walking and moving. And he felt pretty good about it,
MIKE HOLMGREN

I don't think it's an issue.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We've got to let the ribs heal. He's got to feel like he can run and those things. The area that now...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We'll see how it goes. It's in the planning stages. But our game plan doesn't change that much.
MIKE HOLMGREN

Joe had really made his living as an inside receiver, and we had Bobby Engram,
MIKE HOLMGREN

He came into camp in the best condition of his life. He really did ... He's a little bit unlucky.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We battled back. This team is young in certain places and we do some dumb things on occasion, but th...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It's what we're shooting for. You've got to know that,
MIKE HOLMGREN

Today [Wednesday] he felt better, he told me that. He was moving around and not doing bad. We're not...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I know that he's a better player than he performed on Sunday. And now, if he gets a chance to be the...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We have a chance to do something new again here, this season, if we stay at it.
MIKE HOLMGREN

I was afraid I was going to break furniture and throw the monitor out the window. It's just hard bec...
MIKE HOLMGREN

He told me, 'I feel better,' ... He has his conditioning and he doesn't get as winded as he has a li...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We're working to keep him here in Seattle. If he keeps playing he could have his best season ever an...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I talk about that a lot. I think if you asked one of my players, they'd probably tell you I kill the...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We needed to do that, to control the ball with our running game, and obviously, that was one of the ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

We're working to keep him here in Seattle,
MIKE HOLMGREN

Well, I was so sensitive to the week before, being called conservative,
MIKE HOLMGREN

There's no reason to think he's not going to play this week.
MIKE HOLMGREN

But I think the special players can do special things. He's a special player. He's the best lineman ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

They are both good teams, well coached and physical teams. Chicago has a great defense and they are ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

Shaun is going to be fine. He had a concussion in the game. There are grades of concussions, but he ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

If a guy becomes available the caliber of a Peter Warrick, we're probably going to bring him in. I t...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I'm a tremendous believer now. It's about as much like grass as you can have a synthetic surface be....
MIKE HOLMGREN

I don't think Jeremy had both feet on the ground when the ball came out.
MIKE HOLMGREN

In all likelihood, he'll miss three weeks.
MIKE HOLMGREN

No one wants a disruptive situation on his roster. There is too much at stake. Without naming names,...
MIKE HOLMGREN

As happy as the other locker room is, that's how disappointed we are. I think we were careless with ...
MIKE HOLMGREN

While we did some good things with our first group in the first quarter, we were careless.
MIKE HOLMGREN

John Marshall has coordinated in this league and has done a nice job at it.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We are a little undersized. So we've got to do it this way. We've got to be fast. We've got to be sm...
MIKE HOLMGREN

It was uncharacteristic of my team to have that many penalties. We had a touchdown called back, a pa...
MIKE HOLMGREN

I said I was going to leave it up to him, but I have to pull rank. He's going upstairs.
MIKE HOLMGREN

We could tell by the way she said hello that we had lost. We felt horrible for a while; but, you kno...
KATHY HOLMGREN

Perspective is so important. I think my biggest responsibility as a wife is to create as happy a hom...
KATHY HOLMGREN

It's a bare-bones hospital. It needed a shot in the arm. It's hard because you feel like you're plug...
KATHY HOLMGREN

There?s other reasons involved (as to why he signed this kind of deal). Now, he?s under our thumb an...
PAUL HOLMGREN

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with th...
MIKE BIDLO

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and t...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
MIKE PENCE

If you try to do your best there is no failure.
MIKE FARRELL

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver app...
MIKE MCCAUL

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

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