Matt Nagy Quotes

Details – that’s what it comes down to, so you’re always learning more about a play or a concept.

The coach needs to understand, when he’s not teaching something the right way or he sees something wrong, he’s got to be able to admit to his mistakes.

I’ll never forget the day I went home and told my wife, ‘I’ll never be a kindergarten teacher.’

In high school, it was NEH-gee. In college, it was NAG-ee. Now we don’t know what it is.

Every running back has their own strengths and weaknesses. There are some that are better as pass receivers. There are some that are better inside, tight zones and mid zones and outside zones.

I’ve always considered myself a leader, a leader of men.

There was a lot of reflection – I know that – wondering, ‘What in the hell am I doing?’ But it paid off.

When you throw the ball 50 times, there are going to be some that are inaccurate.

There are scenarios when I wish I would have made some different choices with the playcall.

When you fail to communicate, there are gray areas. And when there’s gray areas, then bad things happen.

You can’t make the kid feel like he just made three mistakes in a row and you’re pumping him up. No. There’s a balance to it. It’s, ‘Listen, here’s why you did what you did. Don’t do it next time, and you’ll be OK.’

I’m living the dream.

If it’s a good play, don’t get too high. Make a good play, follow it up, and then if it’s a bad play, if there’s a mistake or there’s something wrong, don’t worry about it.

Even as a coach, sometimes you forget the little intricacies of the offense, the details of the routes, the timing of the footwork, and the timing of the offensive tackles with the different sets that they have.

If somebody comes out and has a poor game, it doesn’t mean they’re getting cut.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

I’ve got to be better. So when I talk to the team, I want to make sure that I’m real with them, and I tell them I can be better.

If you’re given a chance, and you’re driven and obsessed and consumed when given the opportunity to prove people right, the sky is the limit.

I was a player in the Arena League, I was building relationships with that internship.

You see the excitement on the players. I don’t know… if they think, ‘This coach is crazy,’ or if they think that, ‘No, this is pretty good.’

We have to make sure as a staff, and I have to make sure as the staff learns, that we just really keep it simple. We get good at the fundamentals. And then, as we perfect that part of the game, now we can add on.

The quarterback needs to know when he’s doing something wrong or how he can get better.

I went to the ultimate high to an ultimate low. It’s just how life goes, and everything happens for a reason.

You stay positive. Any competitor is going to get angry with themselves and frustrated, and all the emotion comes on.

I’m a big boy; I can handle criticism.

You can’t just say, ‘This team’s going to win,’ or ‘This team’s going to lose.’ Anything can happen. So what you can control is winning your game as much as possible. If you don’t do that, and then the other team has a chance to lose, and they lose, and you didn’t go about it the right way, now you just let that slip.

I think it all circles back to me just trusting myself as a coach and believing in what I feel is the right thing to do.

In the end, everyone talks. We’re all evaluated and judged on. It’s about production and results.

Sometimes when you get out there and you want to just do your own thing, we have to reel that in.

You learn from any criticism. You learn from any self-criticism. And you learn from when you do things the right way: you try to keep going.