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Quarterback play starts with your eyes and feet. Those have to be in the right place and have to be on time.
I’m just trying to be the best quarterback possible. So as long as I’m playing well and improving every day, I will just continue this.
A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.
I don’t even want to touch on the topic of black quarterback, because I think this game is bigger than black, white or even green.
I just don’t think you pass on a great quarterback if you have the opportunity. If need be, you can trade it away.
Andy Reid really dominated the NFC with Donovan McNabb as his best quarterback, got to a Super Bowl. Then he goes to the AFC, wins with Alex Smith. He’s won with five or six quarterbacks.
When you’ve got a quarterback’s rhythm in the game, you can be a pretty deadly pass rusher.
With the quarterback position, because you’re touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It’s about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.
You’ve got to protect your quarterback.
Turning the ball over is something you don’t want to do as a quarterback.
I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.
As a kid, I always dreamt of being an NFL quarterback. I remember being 10 years old and saying, ‘Mom… I’m gonna throw a football in the NFL, and it’s going to be a touchdown, and everybody’s gonna love it.’
For 15 years I have been lucky enough to play quarterback in the NFL and it has been the most incredible experience of my life. There wasn’t one second that I took it for granted or failed to appreciate what a tremendous privilege it is.
Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we’re going to move on. We’ll find someone else to play quarterback.
This quarterback Weeden can drive the ball down field. He’s a thing of beauty on throwing a football. His passing motion and his arm, frankly, you won’t see a more gifted passer, power, accuracy, the entire aspect of it.
A quarterback has got to take control and I feel like I’ve done a good job with that. Not just what we’re doing offensively, but in the locker room getting to know guys and hanging out with guys. All of that is going to make you a better team.
You not a bad quarterback if you do what your team asks of you.
There’s a way you have to play the quarterback position in the NFL. Maybe I’m a little bit old school, but I think you have to play the game in the pocket with consistency.
Matthew Stafford, I think he’s straight. I don’t think he the best quarterback out there. But he do what he gotta do.
You add a good receiver and that will take pressure off your quarterback.
It’s a challenge for all quarterbacks, though: You want to make the big play; you want to throw a touchdown every single play. But at the same time, you have to know that it’s a process.
If you’re on a bus and going down a snowy mountain like in Tahoe, and the bus loses its brakes, where do you want to be sitting? Immediately, you all think, ‘In the back.’ But in the front would be the correct answer. As a quarterback, you want to take control of it.
I never want to be a father figure to my quarterbacks. I’ve got my own kids. I want to be the cool uncle you’d like have a drink with.
What’s the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence.
You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you’ve got, whether it’s a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.
That’s what I love the most about being a quarterback. Everybody looks to you to make a play. They look to you to say something that’s going to spark the team. I take full pride in that every single day.
The best thing for any team is to make the quarterback feel pain. You’ve got to be respectful of the rules of the game and honestly you don’t want to hurt anybody, but to make him feel you is to bring his eyes down.
There’s not a lot of short quarterbacks in the league, but I think there’s more guys paving the way for the transition of not really caring about how big you are, how tall you are.
Kids are doing more in their offseason. That’s what the college quarterbacks, the pro quarterbacks do. That’s how you get better.
It’s not always statistics that determine the best player, especially the quarterback.
It’s always good when the offensive head coach and the quarterback think like-minded. That’s a good thing.
You can’t put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can’t get your quarterback hit.
I’ve had a different career than a lot of different quarterbacks, but this has been a career that I’ve loved and a position that I like being in.
As a quarterback, you’ve got a huge responsibility: You’re touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.
I remember asking my mom, ‘Can you be the quarterback and the drum major at halftime?’ I mean it’s like, what in the world? I wanted to go play quarterback, and I wanted to lead the band. I don’t know how old I was but I vaguely remember asking them that.
Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I’m always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There’s a lot more to it than what you see on the field.
You know, I’m an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven’t seen nothing that they can compare me to.
I want to know what everyone is doing on every play, all the way from protection to tailback to progressions of quarterbacks.
My first signing bonus was 3,500 bucks. I bought speakers and a five-disc carousel CD changer. Dude, I thought I was the wealthiest quarterback around.
Why does everyone always assume the quarterback is the leader?
There’s not that many African-American quarterbacks, so we have to do a little bit extra. Because the percentage of us playing this position, which people didn’t want us to play… is low, so we do a little extra.
I’m strictly a quarterback.
When things aren’t going as well as you might like them to be, it’s always a question as to whether my personality… fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It’s not anything I’m not used to.
I’ll make changes at receiver before I make a change at the quarterback.
I think my game isn’t very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.
My entire career, you can’t say Travis Kelce without Alex Smith. He’s been my quarterback, he’s been the guy. I owe a lot of my success to him.
East Texas isn’t known for producing quarterbacks. I was never really on the football circuit. I wasn’t the type of guy that put my name out there.
But I remember back in 1998, the year after Peyton Manning left Tennessee, a lot of people didn’t really give Tennessee a chance. There was a lesser-known Tee Martin playing quarterback. He ended up leading them to a national championship in 1998 the year after Peyton left.
Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
As a quarterback, you have to be able to nickel-and-dime down the field.
I want every kid to go to college and be like a normal student. I want them to be able to go to a movie, go to a concert. I want them to be able to have that opportunity. But if you’re paying kids, are you going to pay a lineman less than you’re paying a quarterback? I don’t know how to explain that stuff.
If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man – it would make a huge difference.
I’ve played with some of the best that have ever played, obviously. I don’t know if there is anybody that is a better technician than Peyton Manning. Tom Brady is another quarterback that I was fortunate enough to play with for a bunch of years.
I want to be remembered as the greatest quarterback who ever played. You have to go out and prove it first, and then you have to go out and work hard.
Back in the ’80s and ’90s, you could hit the quarterback low, you could hit the quarterback high. You could hit him pretty much late.
When you look at the best of the best, those quarterbacks played with one team. And if you point at a couple guys who didn’t, who changed teams, it really was against their will.
I guess that’s one of the things about playing quarterback. The quarterback gets most of the recognition.
I was a receiver until I was a freshman in high school. I didn’t play quarterback until I was a freshman.
I got a small window of time to be an NFL quarterback. Some day when I’m done playing I can sit back and look at what we accomplished, or how does it feel, or what’s it like.