Top 66 Kurt Warner Quotes

The road to our dreams has many detours.

I’d love to be a consultant and help design an offense. That’s my true passion, and I want to find an outlet where I can do that.

I had to play arena football for three years. I had to work in a grocery store for a while to make ends meet. I had to go to Amsterdam to play.

I still feel a heavy responsibility for the people of Missouri because of the respect they have for me but also the things they’ve done for me.

I never doubted myself.

I wanted my faith to look the same to everyone else and to be the same for me regardless of what was going on – whether I was on the Super Bowl podium holding the trophy or when I was being benched two years later and people saying that I would never play again.

You can take off a football jersey, but you can never take off your faith. That goes with you everywhere.

If you have a dream, never stop preparing for that.

I believe that I’ve got a unique knowledge and understanding of this game, and I’m able to see it differently than a lot of people.

Part of high cholesterol is that you can look at yourself in the mirror, and you can feel great and think there’s no issues. But silently, they can be affecting your heart.

I’ve always said, if everything was equal, from money to retirement to endorsement opportunities – all that stuff – if everything was equal, I’d play Arena football over the NFL. It was built for quarterbacks. It was just backyard football.

I became a Christian at about 26 years old as I was going through the process of playing Arena football and trying to get back into the NFL and pursue my dream.

One thing I know is if I have my best player, I’m not going to let another team take him out of the game so I can throw to somebody else. I’m going to find a way to get my best player involved so they can’t take him away.

For me, as a pocket quarterback, there wasn’t much adjustment as I got older.

That’s part of the deal. You’re going to be criticized. I always welcomed that. Not everyone believes what I believe. And I welcome the criticism, not because I like it, but because it means they’re watching you. It presents an opportunity to share your message and share your faith.

When people look back at my career, I want them to see a fierce competitor, but more importantly, I want to be remembered for my consistency of character and the legacy I hope to leave through my First Things First Foundation.

I have seven kids. I want to watch my kids grow up. I want to participate in their activities. There’s a lot I wanted to accomplish beyond football. It all starts with making sure my heart’s healthy.

I could see myself doing more color in the future – I love being able to analyze game by game and share the stories with the players.

I would love to coach and teach people about football. It’s just that the time constraints are so tough to coach, especially when you have seven kids and they are growing up. I’m just in too blessed of a situation to spend from five in the morning until 12 at night coaching and not watching my kids grow up.

If you can play the game later in your career very similar to how you played earlier in your career, then it bodes well for you to play longer and play better longer.

That’s what you kind of see with Matthew Stafford. He makes some incredible plays, even with his arm in different positions. But the consistency’s not there that you need at the position to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and I think that’s where cleaning up the technique will help.

I don’t think anyone has a bad perception of me. Just a limited one. Everyone thinks I pretty much sit around and talk about Jesus all the time. But I’m normal. I’m just a guy. Yeah, I love Jesus and do things a bit different, but I have the same conversations and share the same thoughts as anyone else.

If the hall of fame happens, what a tremendous honor. But it’s just icing on the cake.

I want people to know that you can chase your dreams no matter where you are in your life, and it can work out. I know. It happened to me.

The greatest impact you can have on people is never what you say but how you live… You set the standard with your actions. The words can come after.

There’s a huge yearning in our culture for something more… it’s being more in touch with God… and what we were created to be.

Nothing is a guarantee at all.

My brother was a Chargers fan, so we watched Dan Fouts a lot growing up.

If you love something, if you’re passionate about it, that’s where you’re going to have the greatest impact on the people around you: by living in those passions and sharing that passion with other people and sharing your gifts and what God created you to be.

I look terrible in caps.

On the football field, I keep my emotions tied up inside, but when I’m with my family, I let them out.

If you can stand up for your faith when you’re on top, you can stand up for it now that you’re at the bottom.

You have to learn how not to be defined by failure.

I didn’t corner the market on great stories. I’m not the only one who can do something like work at a grocery store and then win a Super Bowl. Other people can do it. You hope people will see that and say, ‘Hey, that will be me.’ They’re going to chase after it like I did. And they’re going to be the next one.

Sports have an amazing way of banding people together from all walks of life, building relationships that would have never happened.

I don’t think there’s any question that the Arena League allowed me to flourish. I played three years in a league where the quarterback wasn’t supposed to be stopped. We never wanted to kick. When I went into the NFL, I had that same mentality.

There is nothing better than playing for the championship at any level of football.

I think, a lot of guys, when they get, you know, those hits or those concussions, they think, ‘OK, well, I’m just going to kind of play through it here for the short term, and it’s going to get better.’ I would venture to say probably 100 percent of the guys that played my sport in the NFL have been there.

You have to live life for today and for this moment.

If so and so would have given me the right opportunity, or if this person would have encouraged me – I could have made a million excuses on why I wasn’t playing in the NFL. You have no more excuses… what do you do from now until your opportunity presents itself? It’s all up to you.

I felt like there were always people who said football should be over here and faith should be over there. But that drove me.

There’s a compelling reason why I belong in the Hall of Fame, but I understand the argument against me. My career didn’t go like most, and I’m 100 percent fine with that because that’s what resonates with people.

No matter how badly you play, you want to come out healthy.

At the end of the day, it’s not about starting a game in the NFL, winning a Super Bowl, or getting to the Hall of Fame. It’s about representing yourself in a way that represents your faith.

I’ve done things that people in this league will never do.

I was a Cowboys fan growing up.

So many guys come onto the scene who aren’t supposed to be there. You pull for one, and then you see there’s another and another and another, and you start to say, ‘Who cares where a player was drafted? He can play football, and he can play at this level.’

Faith lives inside of us in every circumstance.

I’d love to be placed in a position to make a difference in regards to my faith, in regards to speaking for Jesus, whether that’s some type of ministry platform, being in a big-time position where I could make a difference.

Anytime you mention Jesus or faith, people are turned off. I think it scares a lot of people.

The president of the United States, his role is to uphold and to fight for the rights of every person, every American.

I am humbled the Lord has given me such an amazing life to impact others.

The thing I’m most proud of in my career was to be able to help two organizations go someplace that they’ve never been before. Not many people get that opportunity to do it with one.

I’ve had a great time making the transition from playing to talking about the game, and there is no better place to talk football than NFL Network.

My wife had been a Christian since twelve years old.

The thing that I appreciate so much about my career and journey is that I do believe everybody can relate to it. There were highs and lows, obviously, before I got to the NFL. And then I got there and won a championship.

For so many years, I wished it could have been different. I wished I could have gotten the opportunity sooner. I would have loved to see what had happened had I got to the NFL right out of college and all of those different things.

I really feel like my story in modern day times is very similar to a biblical story: you know, somebody that nobody expected, that everybody said couldn’t, and by God’s grace and power, I was able to accomplish a lot.

My game is more a game of thinking than anything else.

I think a lot of people miss out on opportunities, they miss out on achieving their dream, and they miss out on doing what they love to do because they’re allowing something else, something outside of them and outside of God, to dictate what their life’s going to look like.