The reality is, if you’re going to have a defeat on the road, Week 1 is probably the best time to have it. Mike McCarthy Read Quote
When you’re losing, there’s that survival instinct. But when you’re handling success, people think it’s easier, and they think losing’s harder. But handling success, to me, always creates more issues. Are you in touch with reality? With perception? Mike McCarthy Read Quote
The team that gets to play to their plan is usually the team that has the most success. Mike McCarthy Read Quote
You play a team for the second time, you definitely have some familiarity. I think it’s beneficial for your players that they have some tape to look at of the opponent and can focus on the individual matchups that they have some current history to draw from. Mike McCarthy Read Quote
I went away to college, and when I came back and was coaching at Pitt, if they would’ve offered me a 25-year contract to be the assistant coach, I would’ve taken it so fast. It was ideal. I was coaching one neighborhood over from where I grew up. Mike McCarthy Read Quote