Top 45 Matt Cassel Quotes

My father grew up in West Texas, in Lubbock, and I’ve got family here, and I grew up a Dallas Cowboy fan all my life.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

Anytime you can get the ball in the receiver’s hands with some space, you let their natural abilities take over.

I always want to be out there with my team. I always want to fight.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

If you don’t take care of the ball in this league, I know it’s tough to win.

You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.

My rookie year in New England was mind-blowing.

My preparation doesn’t change from being a backup to a starter.

It always comes down to being accountable to your teammates and so many times you get caught up in everything else going on. And I remember as a young guy, you always worry about, ‘Well, who’s getting the reps,’ and this, that and the other, and it takes you and distracts you away from just doing your job.

All you can ask for in this game is an opportunity.

You always have to be thinking about your opportunity. You always have to be ready.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

There was a time when I thought, ‘God, this whole football thing might not work out for me.’

Teams really take into account character.

Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it’s the grit and grind of the game.

When I was a kid, we used to play ‘Madden’ and ‘NCAA Football’ all the time. I have two brothers, so we grew up on these games.

I’m not trying to be Tom Brady. I’m just trying to be Matt Cassel.

Honestly, I have no ill will toward Kansas City or anything that happened here.

I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.

Personally, I always loved the 1 p.m. Sunday games.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that’s what you’re trying to accomplish.

As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.

I’ve been through a lot in my career. I’ve been through the ups, I’ve been through the downs. I’ve been through the highs and the lows.

I think as the quarterback of any NFL team, you put a tremendous amount of pressure on yourself to win ball games because that’s what you’re here to do and ultimately, that’s what you want to do.

Every rep I can get is valuable.

I’ve been on a number of NFL teams, and a lot of them address situational football. But I’ve never been around a team that does it as meticulously as the New England Patriots.

You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.

There are a lot of things that you learn as a rookie and you grow the most, I would say as a rookie from your first year to your second year.

One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we’re doing on a week-to-week basis.

The first thing that came to mind when I met Tom Brady was intimidation. I’m showing up in 2005 with a guy who just came off his third Super Bowl win. So, it’s a little intimidating walking in the room with Tom Brady for the first time.

It’s just part of the NFL. There’s going to be moving parts constantly. There’s going to be roster changes. There’s going to be coaches going somewhere else.

The thing about the 2008 season which sticks out for so many people was we were coming off the 18-1 year where we went to the Super Bowl and lost in dramatic fashion with the catch and everything else that happened.

I have tunnel vision. I go out and try to get better each and every day.

Anytime we can get the running game going it is a plus for me and it makes my job a lot easier.

You can’t play scared.

Pro Day was very important for me because that was really the only time that I had to prove that I could play at an NFL level and that was really through the physical drills they put me through which was running and throwing the ball. It turned out pretty well for me.

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.

It’s been a childhood dream of mine to be a Cowboy, honestly.

I never had a car in high school or college.

I’ve said this time and time again: Dante Scarnecchia is the best offensive line coach in the NFL.

Every week you go in and hope that you have production in the passing game and also in the running game.

I always look forward to playing.

I think that’s the genius part of what the Patriots do: They go above and beyond in identifying the issue and doing whatever they can to make sure it doesn’t wreck the offensive plan.

I hope to do the ‘Letterman’ show, ‘Leno,’ all that.