Jon Gruden Quotes

Sometimes you can do the work in the moment, and you don't know whether it's going to really have meaning once time has elapsed.

At the end of the day, most people just want to be valued. They want to feel they have put their time to something that will seem to have been of value when they die.

I like everything I do to have some kind of meaning.

I think all kinds of meanings in life transcend your self. They're linked to other generations of people around us, to our children and our family. We're passing on something of ourselves to others. I feel that's what makes our life full of meaning.

Nothing is important.

I am only here on this earth for a short period of time, like the rest of the country and citizens, and I want the time that I spend here on earth to matter.

There's not much point breaking records if, in the end, it doesn't mean anything.

There is a difference between who is important and who is significant.

I have seen players and coaches come and go, but through it all, I have always known Cleveland is where I want to retire. But life doesn't always work the way you want it to, and at the end of the day, the saying, 'This is a business,' is unfortunately true.

At the end of my life, I just want to make sure I made a big difference in this world.

Things are only as important as you make them out to be.

It's hard to put a price on a life's work.

We work on things that really matter.

All of us want to know that we are doing great things, that we are touching a lot of people, and that what we are doing is something bigger than ourselves.

At the end of the day, my career is not going to be judged by one or two or three moments in time. It'll be judged by the longevity of it.

At the end of the day, it's all about the story.

To me, a life that doesn't change things and touch people's lives is pretty meaningless.

All I can do is just do stuff while I am alive and hopefully that track record will speak for itself.

The vast majority of those who are famous are not significant and the vast majority of those who are significant are not famous.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.

I want to know that I've accomplished something. I want to feel that it had some meaning. At the last summing up, I want to be sure it wasn't all-for nothing.

At the end of your life, you are going to want to know that you made some kind of difference.

If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.

One of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.

You don't really stay attached to things. Life goes on, so you don't really sit around and think about how they are relevant to other people. You hope that whatever you create will be [relevant].