Top 35 Kirk Cousins Quotes

Every player looks forward to free agency.

I’ve never been one to just let everyone see what I’m about, so sometimes there is a misperception.

To have a platform to make a difference ultimately, which is what I want to do with my life, we’ve got to win football games. When you’re highly paid and your losing, no one really cares what you have to say.

I think some of the best pieces of advice for me was when I talked to some of the great players who have had success in this league how much they emphasized the importance of rest, that you can’t just go 100 miles an hour all 12 months of the year every day and just keep going. That is a recipe for burnout.

I really put the medical school thing on hold and really chased after my football dream. And I guess I’m still chasing. I’m eight years in the NFL, and I feel very fortunate to be where I am.

If you could, say, draw it up, I’d be a Redskin the rest of my career.

And I think at the end of my life, it’s not going to be about what I did for myself, but what I did for others. Maybe it’s staying after practice to do hand signals with the guys to help them get caught up to speed. To make it about others – I think that’s what leadership is all about, quarterbacking is all about.

Sometimes you want to ease into the situation and maybe sit in the back row for a while and allow time to get adjusted and then speak up.

Coming out of high school, however, I wasn’t a decorated recruit. As a result, I found myself one month from signing day with only two scholarship offers and they were from the Mid-American Conference.

I’m totally cool being self-deprecating.

I think at times I have to be careful not to stick my foot in my mouth and not to have the pedal to the metal at all times, because that can hurt me as a quarterback.

I’ve called the spring game for Big Ten Network for Michigan State. It’s a great opportunity to still stay around the game, to be able to feel like you’re close to the action. I’m very analytical, so I think it fits the way I think.

When you go to college, you’re on your own. It’s you and God. It’s a question of what are you made of and how much is God a part of your life. So when I went off to college, I knew that was going to be the case.

I joke with people – and Kyle Shanahan used to say this – that my swagger is having no swagger, but that kind of becomes my thing.

Discipleship, following Jesus Christ is the toughest thing that you’re going do in your whole life. You’re not going to find anything tougher.

I was fortunate to have a dad who was very involved, very present, very wise.

If we win, everybody will feel good. If we lose, all the other things just don’t really matter. Winning is what matters to me.

I think at times where I fail as a leader is probably when I haven’t allowed the Holy Spirit to lead and when I do allow the Holy Spirit to handle it – I think that’s when I’m most successful as a leader.

If you’re not plugged into something like Athletes in Action or Campus Crusade, it’s difficult to keep your eyes focused on Jesus Christ because the world is telling you differently, and your sin-nature is telling you differently.

My job was to play football the last 16 games and do my part, and then in the offseason, really, it’s just sit back and let the team or other teams let you know that they want you.

When you say was it you being silly or letting yourself go, or is it you being intense? I would say it was me being me. I would say that me being me is probably yes to all of that. So having fun, playing with passion, it matters to me, competitive.

We’ve got too many cool guys for me to try to be cool. We’ve got enough of that. I can just be boring and dorky.

I knew the statistics of playing pro football were 1% of 1%, so I just never planned on it.

I think that being a Christian, a Jesus follower, teaches you to be selfless, to be hard-worker, to be tough, to be persistent and I don’t know a single coach in the country that doesn’t want those qualities from his players.

The accumulation of knowledge is a powerful thing.

If I have my best year yet in 2018 but we’re 8-8, I didn’t go to the next level. That’s the reality of it.

What impact are you making, not only today, but for eternity? What impact are you making to leave a legacy?

I just don’t get my hopes up. I don’t expect too much from people in the league because you just never know what could happen.

I’m not a guy who wants to skydive and open my parachute at the last minute. I want to open my parachute right away and know what’s coming.

I think whether home or away, it’s playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.

I’m pretty much a .500 quarterback in my career so far and I don’t think that’s where you want to be, and that’s not why you are brought in or people or excited about you.

I haven’t had a chance to pick where I wanted to play since 2007 when I chose to go to Michigan State.

Ultimately, I’ve just got to keep playing football and try to do it the best I can and try to continue to be a high-level quarterback, and if I do that, trust that in the long run things will work out.

I want to be where I’m wanted, and that’s what I’ve said all along. When a team is willing to step up and commit to me fully for the long haul, then why would I want to be anywhere else?

Life is about balance. You don’t want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there’s a balance to find. It doesn’t have to be one extreme or the other.