Bob McNair Quotes (37 Quotes)

I don't see that happening. There's really not any opposition to revenue sharing. Nor is there any opposition to helping small-market clubs that might need help on a temporary basis. Everyone in the league wants all of the clubs to be competitive. When it goes beyond any requirement to be competitive, and it's just a redistribution of profits, that's a different issue.

He's here as a resource to assist me as we go forward and to assist the other people in our organization to help us be a better team.

With Gary being born and raised in Houston, what better way to get this team to the championship level then to be led by a Houston Texan.

I think he had a good workout.

We started out studying the offensive players, and now we're studying the defensive players. Like Bush and Young, Williams is a unique athlete. We believe he is capable of having as much an impact on the defense as Bush would the offense. He is such a dominating player that he can play anywhere up and down the line.

There have been a number of teams that have had swings of eight games from one season to the next and some nine games. The Colts had a 10-game swing (from 1998 to 1999). The most recent was San Diego went from 4-12 to 12-4 in 2004. Significant swings can occur like that.

I'm not going to give charity here to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I want to get this straight, please.

At this point in time, based upon what we know about Reggie, we're not aware of anything that would prevent us from picking him if we decide that's what we want to do.

I think it shows a seriousness on the part of the league to bring this thing to some kind of a decision.

It became obvious during the interviews that there was one person that really fit our situation and that was Gary.

I think we would be in good shape. I think that small-market clubs would be hurt more than large-market clubs. I think we would be prepared to weather that storm.

We are very serious about this, not nervous. We will address where we have the greatest needs and where the player can help us the most. It's not often we have the opportunity to select a player of this caliber. You want to make a pick of a player who will be with you and make a contribution for a long period of time.

It's a very valuable pick. We all want to make a good decision.

I don't want to be in this position again. This is an exciting time, but this isn't the spot you want to be in for obvious reasons.

And I thought he was.

I think that the biggest challenge that we have is from the standpoint of putting together an effective offense. We've had difficulty with that process in the past.

After a disappointing 2-14 campaign this season we had to make a change. We will begin looking for qualified candidates immediately to fill our vacancy and get the Texans moving in the right direction in 2006.

We think he's just as dominant a player on defense as Reggie is on offense. The thing we've been missing has been a pass rush. The bigger short-term impact on our team would be more with a running back. But Mario Williams could play for 10 or 12 years, and he may be the next Reggie White. Green Bay had Brett Favre , but they won a championship when they got Reggie White.

We're a very large enterprise now. It will be difficult to find a CEO with a strong-enough football background, and a football person with a strong-enough business background. We need to keep growing and expanding.

We signed the contract this morning, so it's time for him to go to work.

It's hard to throw when you're laying on the ground with four guys on top of you. David's been subjected to that all along. We haven't given him the protection he's needed. He has tremendous ability.

I don't think that's a real issue because he's the kind of player that can break a game open on any play. If he can touch the ball 10 times and score 10 touchdowns that would be satisfactory.

I thought we should be competing for a playoff spot and we weren't even close to that.

We thought that 100,000 or 200,000 wasn't enough. We thought this was more appropriate.

I haven't heard anything about this from anyone in the league office, but that doesn't mean there's not something to it. Right now, we're scheduled to sit down and meet after the draft and evaluate everything. When we do that, we'll see where everything's

Who knows If someone wants to give us a 'Godfather' offer, they might have the No. 1 pick. It's just a question of what is available to us at that time and what is the value to the Texans.

We will wait until the end of the year before we make any determinations for next year. None of us are happy with the performance of our team this year. We're all disappointed. It's very frustrating.

We've had some difficulty in getting our passing game to the level that we would like to have it. Gary has the philosophy of always being aggressive always attacking.

Plummer was a different quarterback with Gary. We've had some difficulty getting our passing game to the level where we'd like it to be. Gary played quarterback, coached quarterbacks and was responsible for an offense that had an aggressive philosophy a

Hopefully we'll have him down here by the middle of the week and he will then be assembling a staff.

I'm really interested in sitting down with him and getting to know him. We'll get some quality one-on-one time with him. We'll do the same with Reggie Bush, too.

I think everyone appreciates it. I was completely amazed that Arizona, the Cardinals, Arizona State and the two teams involved were able to make that kind of change on such short notice. I think that's amazing. When I first heard it, I thought it was some mistake. I think it was an amazing job and the community there has our gratitude.

We have a good offense, but Reggie Bush would make us an explosive offense.

We talked to a number of really outstanding coaches. As we went forward, it became obvious to us that there was one person who really fit our situation. We've said that we're going to build a championship team here in Houston, and we knew in order to do that we had to have people of championship caliber.

I've known Dan for a very long time. We would like to have him evaluate our team and give us his opinion as to how close we are to being a winning team.

I hope this is the last time we have the No. 1 pick. At the same time it is of great value to us. Certainly the No. 1 pick is more valuable than the No. 2 pick. But we weren't playing for draft picks. We were playing to win the games. Unfortunately we did

If that's all there is, if it's still a minor thing, then I doubt it would have any effect on what we do.