Rex Ryan
I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.
I'm not as tough as my Dad.
I don't put others down; I talk my team up.
I end every speech the night before a game with, 'Now, let's go get a snack.'
It's been a dream of mine to become a head coach in the NFL.
Coming here to the New York Jets, where my father once coached and was part of the Super Bowl III staff, is fantastic. I look around at the facilities and the people they have in place and see a first-class organization. I'm just proud to be part of it.
I'm not afraid of expectations.
My goal is to win a Super Bowl. It's not to just win X number of games.
I want to be a better head coach than my father.
I'm not a one-hit wonder. When you look at my background, I think I've been successful at all stops along the way. I know the kind of responsibility it takes to be a head football coach.
I don't want to just be known as good. I want to be special.
I want to win the damn Super Bowl. That's what drives me.
I'm not a red wine guy.
I want success for Woody Johnson, I do.
It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.
I'm really high on Josh Allen. He reminds me of Ben Roethlisberger. He's got the big arm. He's a very good athlete.
I've always had a huge appreciation of the military.
Obviously my dad served in the Korean War. He was a Master Sergeant when he was 18 years old.
I have no problem at all if somebody disagrees with me on my politics, or on this, that or whatever. That's fine.
How do you make a young quarterback better? You build a running game around him.
I mean, as a coach, as a leader of an organization, you represent your fan base and everybody that works and all that, and that's passion.
My wife just so happens to make an amazing bean dip.
I never realized how similar that I am to Tom Brady. mean, the obvious physical appearance would be the first thing. The fact that he's married to a supermodel? Hello? Yeah, I'm also married to a supermodel.
I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.
Dez Bryant's a great player. You can't take that away from him.
Right away I'm associated with what Donald Trump stands for and all that because I introduced him. I never signed up for that, I never wanted that. That doesn't mean I support 100 percent of the things he says.
I supported Donald Trump, I sat back when he asked me to introduce him at a rally in Buffalo, I did that.
You know me; I make some comments that aren't really good.
You'll remember every damn loss. But the wins? You don't necessarily remember.
At the end of the day, I'm responsible for the product on the field.
I don't know this Channing Crowder. All I know is that he's all tatted up, so I guess I ought to be nervous about him. If I was younger, I'd probably handle him myself.
I've been a big admirer of Tony Dungy, and I'm sure a lot of people are, but he unfairly judged me, and that was disappointing to me.
I'm always going to be myself and I'm a good person.
Just because somebody cusses doesn't make him a bad person. Just because a guy doesn't cuss doesn't make him a good person.
This is the business of football and nothing is guaranteed to you as a player, coach or anybody else. They don't have to give you the money. They don't have to give you a longterm contract.
Belichick, I recognize the fact this is a Hall of Fame coach. He'll go down in history as maybe the greatest football coach in the history of this game, or going to be close to it.
I wanted to beat Peyton Manning as bad as I've ever wanted anything in my life.
I've been real fortunate. I got two opportunities when a lot of great coaches don't get any.
I'm certainly not intimidated by New England or anybody else.
I think my admiration is really for Belichick more than anything. As a coach, that's the guy. He'll go down as probably the best in the history of the game. I like poking fun at him and all that stuff, but there's no coach I respect more than him.
I have sets, literally, of almost every single year of Strat-O-Matic baseball. That's how huge I was into it.
I love coaching football, don't get me wrong. But I just love baseball.
My wife's beautiful. We've been married for 23 years. She's awesome.
My arms are like twigs.
The lap-band surgery has been tremendous.
We’re going to be as loyal to our fans as they are to us.Collection: Fans
If you don't believe it yourself your team darn sure won't.Collection: Team
I'm not going to let our fans down.Collection: Fans
We're going to start with the injury report, obviously. Manning, Clark, Addai, Reggie Wayne, Freeney, Mathis, Brackett - all those guys will not play. Oh, hold up. That was my wish list for Santa Claus.Collection: Funny