Top 75 Derek Carr Quotes

God will put me where he wants me.

I want to be perfect at everything, knowing I’ll never be perfect at it, but that’s my goal.

I’m hard on myself.

I don’t care what stadium we play in.

Being in a boot is not fun. Being on crutches is not fun.

Patrick Peterson, obviously, is one of – it depends who you talk to – is the best, or one of the best, corners/return guys in the NFL. You just turn the film on and you’re like, ‘Wow, that guy plays corner? He looks like a linebacker and runs a 4.1’ or whatever. He’s a great player.

I love people.

There’s a lot of people out there who don’t love football, and I don’t want anything to do with those guys.

I don’t give false claims any due.

I always want to make everyone happy.

Faith, family and then football. Those are my priorities now.

I’m probably one of the most competitive people you’ll ever meet. I want to dunk on my nephews. I’ll block my 2-year-old’s shot to make it hard on them.

We want to go 100 miles per hour and cause confusion for the defense. It can be a lot of fun.

I always try and give my best effort.

In my head, I’m a big Kobe fan.

In the second year of a system it’s easier to get through your progressions faster.

You can line anybody up against me and I’m going to throw against them. And I like my chances, in the most humble way.

I listen to the people that know the position. People that coach me. People that I always seek advice from.

We want to play fast.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn’t cry then.

During a game, sometimes you don’t know how much you’ve scored.

My only focus was to be the best version of myself.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

There’s not a throw that I can’t make. And if I have to make it, I will make it.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

There won’t be a day when I stop working to be a better version of myself, so I’m going to keep working and I will get better.

Every year, I find things where I can go harder into and things like that.

I had to grow up fast.

Everyone knows with a rookie, you’re going to take lumps. Even with a first-, second-, third-year guy, you’re going to take lumps until you gain that experience. But for me, it was nice to get out there and get the experience and do it. I’m a guy that has to do it.

Having a big brother who taught me protections and blitz recognition has helped out a lot.

I’ll never forget when we won that game my rookie year versus Kansas City. We won one game, we were 1-10, and to sit there and watch everybody celebrate, there’s nothing like it. I just sat there and enjoyed it.

For me, if I didn’t have my faith, the game gives you a lot of highs and a lot of lows.

Tough, gritty, those are things that have been in me since I was a little kid.

There’s times where I get emotionally hijacked, then I’ll try and force something and do something.

When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.

I’ve broken a lot of things. I’ve torn a lot of muscles. I’ve torn a lot of ligaments.

I’m always trying to grow myself.

The game has slowed down for me. It’s so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.

I’m a Raider for life.

If you see anything, you see I post a lot of Scriptures.

If we win every game, that’s all I care about.

You can see something on film, but until you’re really out there playing against somebody and you see him for the first time, you don’t really know.

I have two big brothers.

A game manager – I wish people would call me that. That’s a compliment.

Add a good player to our team? Absolutely.

I hate losing.

I had a whole bunch of things I knew I needed to work on from self-scouting. I knew on certain routes what I needed to do and ways to use my eyes and shoulders and manipulate coverage.

It’s the most violent sport there is.

Of course, anyone would want Marshawn Lynch. Any quarterback in the NFL.

We don’t want to be paper champs.

I’ve rolled and torn ligaments in my ankle.

I think it’s more important to pray for my son than go out with my friends drinking at a bar until midnight while he waits for me to come home.

When you’re an undrafted guy, it’s hard because… you’re not going to have the first- or second-team reps all the time, obviously.

It’d be an honor to play anywhere.

Let’s go fix problems that I have and let’s do what I need to do to win championships.

When things get tough, a lot of people point fingers.

We have a goal of winning the Super Bowl and that’s just where our focus is. It’s like a laser focus.

Football is important, but it’s not the most important thing anymore.

I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I’ve gotten better at those.

I don’t need to tell stories about how I prepare or manage myself.

I still think having an older brother in the NFL is the coolest thing ever. But to see how it went down is sad.

Too many times I see kids come up to me, especially at the high school age, and say, ‘Man, it would be cool to play in the NFL just because of the money.’ And I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness, you are missing everything, because money is not going to make you happy.’

Making false claims about somebody before you know them, and about a group of guys, that has no business in our world. If we’re trying to promote peace and love, I don’t think that has any place.

When you’re losing, crap happens.

The best thing that you can do is show up every day and give it everything that you have, because anything outside of that is out of your control.

My last two years at Fresno State were 100 percent no-huddle, and I love it. I’m very comfortable in it.

I just want to make sure that my teammates will be taken care of.

I’m very much into legacies.

When things are tough in training camp; when things are tough in season; when it’s good, you don’t want guys hitting too high or too low or depressed. It’s just draining for everybody.

It’s the same mindset I had in college. As long as I come in and work every day, it worked in college and I’m just going to continue to grind my tail off here in the NFL.

Raider Nation is everywhere, literally.

When I put my helmet on, I’m ultra competitive, talking trash.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

I love Raider Nation. There’s nothing like it.

It’s a good thing that me and Coach Gruden think the same way. Him and I are more similar than people even know. We just are… him and I think the same way, we watch, we study the same way and all those kind of things.