Top 70 Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

I wasn’t born this super, superior athlete.

Competition definitely brings out the best in you.

I’ve been through a lot. I’ve had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

Just in terms of the demeanor and the approach and just making sure that I’m consistent in the way I do things – that is the biggest thing for me.

My normal is craziness – moving around and jumping from team to team and having to get used to different guys in a short period of time.

The Fitzpatrick home is happy when we’re winning.

There’s a lot of things you can’t learn unless you actually experience it.

All I want to do is go out there and win.

I’ve got to take advantage of every day.

I’ve been called every name in the book.

I know myself so well. So I know if I’m not confident in the play, it’s not going to be a good play.

I feel like I keep progressing.

I’m just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it’s predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there’s not a whole lot of diversity.

I enjoy playing, especially when you’re having success, when you’re driving the ball down the field scoring touchdowns.

Whenever Tua gets his chance, I’m going to be his biggest cheerleader.

For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.

I’m as competitive as they come.

I’m not gonna throw a Ryan Leaf bullet, but I’ve got a good enough arm, where I think it’ll turn some heads and keep them interested.

Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.

I want to be in the playoffs.

You feel pressure when other people’s expectations are higher than your own.

For all the ladies out there, I’m taken. I’m sorry.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

I’ve seen a lot of things and I’ve experienced a lot of things.

All I can do is play as hard as I can play, make as many plays as I can make and try to help my team win football games.

You’ve just got to continue to prepare in the film room, continue to prepare running the game plan and doing everything on the practice field and hope that it translates.

Football is not a game about numbers. It’s about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.

You never know what’s going to happen in the NFL. That’s probably the thing I’ve learned most – expect the unexpected and go from there.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn’t play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You’re going to receive the criticism.

That’s what I’ve always tried to do. I’ve always tried to prepare the same. I’ve always just tried to keep the same routine throughout the season and go out there and try to be consistent on Sundays.

I’ve had to work hard my whole life to gain what I have, and that’s why I have such a fun time doing those things that nobody likes. Like squatting or hang cleans or getting up in the morning, because I think that I realize in the end what it’s going to do for me and what it has done for me in the past.

I have zero ego.

Absolutely I’d be happy with my career.

I have enjoyed every single step of the journey that I’ve been on.

For us as players, revenue sharing, getting a larger percentage of the pie, is important, but also the overall growth of that pie is important.

I find the game mentally challenging and really enjoy the chess match that occurs every week between the offense and the opposing defense.

That’s one of the things with a championship-caliber team, is how it deals with injuries.

The two things that make you a good head coach in this league are if you can get the players to respect you and if you can come across with a clear, consistent message.

I’m very proud of the fact I went to Harvard and I loved my four years there.

Squats and hang cleans. I love them. You can just feel yourself getting bigger and better.

I play because I love the game.

I’ve not had a career like Brady or Rodgers with all the Super Bowls and the incredible things they’ve done. But for me, the adversity made me who I am.

It’s not an easy game.

I try to be the same guy every day, no matter the situation, no matter the adversity.

Football is something so ingrained in me, something I love doing and definitely something I want to do.

There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.

I’m trying to do the best I can every day.

It really all started in Buffalo, when it was cold, I wanted to see if I could grow facial hair and lo and behold it just kept growing.

The biggest thing in this game – to last – is to have belief in yourself. Because when the owner stops believing in you and the GM stops believing in you and the coaches stop believing in you, sometimes all you have is yourself.

I never imagined even playing in the NFL. It seemed like a pipe dream.

I have something to prove every year.

I have a unique perspective just from the career that I’ve had.

I feel like the luckiest guy in the world sometimes, getting to go outside and play football with my friends.

I wouldn’t trade my experience for anybody’s.

I like KenKen.

I have horrible style.

Constantly getting knocked down and picking myself back up, the relationships I’ve been able to form with all the different people in the different cities, I wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Any way that I can help the Harvard football program and Harvard is great.

It always helps when you’re working out with other people, especially your teammates.

I’m the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.

I like Backgammon.

As you get older, life gets more complicated.

I’ve never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

Whenever I go to a new team the jabs about being a Harvard guy are always more prevalent. This is mainly because people don’t know much about me other than being the Harvard guy that did well on his Wonderlic test. The more time I spend with people, the less the Harvard stuff comes up.

I don’t see myself being able to stay away from football.

I think, fortunately and unfortunately, I’ve got a lot of experience in playing for teams that have been in this situation where we lost a few games and we’ve got to stay the course, we’ve got to right the ship, and we’ve got to do all of that stuff.

I just have to continue to prepare and try to be the best guy I can be every Sunday, whether that’s coming off a good game or a bad game.

I feel like I’ve gotten better every year.