Quarterback Quotes - Page 7

• There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

  Joshilyn Jackson

  Jesus, School, Alabama

  Joshilyn Jackson (2010). “Backseat Saints”, p.227, Hachette UK

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• I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

  Andrew Luck

  Thinking, Personality, Progression

  "Q&A: Colts QB Andrew Luck talks leadership, staying healthy... and acting". Interview with Eric Edholm, sports.yahoo.com. August 26, 2014.

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• The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

  Hale Irwin

  Football, Independent, Thinking

  "Hale Irwin honored with Nicholson Award, talks golf and football". www.denverpost.com. May 8, 2012.

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• If I was going to play offense, I'd love to play running back. In high school I played quarterback and wide receiver, but I wouldn't mind running over some folks.

  Ronnie Lott

  Running, School, Play

  Interview with Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. December 16, 2003.

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• I was a runner, a failed quarterback, third-string quarterback, but in track I was a 2-miler.

  Bob Seger

  Track, Strings, Runners

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• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Team, Needs, Ifs

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• I know I'm the No. 1 quarterback for the Washington Redskins, and that's all that matters in my heart. That's all I wanted. I wanted a team that wanted me, and I found that.

  Robert Griffin III

  Team, Heart, Matter

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• Roger Goodell makes $40 million a year, which more than compensates him for the most difficult and sensitive decision in his nine years as commissioner: How hard to come down on Tom Brady, the best quarterback in NFL history, who Goodell told me last year is a "great ambassador for the game"

  Gary Myers

  Nfl, Years, Games

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• I think that's another misconception, [that] our quarterbacks run all the time. Quarterbacks can help you in the run game, they complement what you do, but it's a running back-driven run game.

  Chip Kelly

  Running, Thinking, Games

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• One of the reasons I'm lucky is to be around an owner like Jerry Jones. I'm not just saying it. The reality of it is the guy wants to win. As a quarterback, you need ownership and people in the front office and organization to help you win. If you don't get that help, you're always going to be fighting an uphill battle. You feel that, being a part of this organization with Jerry, that he's going to bring in people and sign people and want to improve this football team every year. It allows you to feel like, hey, we have a chance and I have a chance to do some special things around here.

  Tony Romo

  Football, Team, Fighting

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• I said all along, you judge your quarterback in his third year.

  Mike Shanahan

  Years, Nfl, Judging

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• If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Winning, Years, Nfl

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• Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback - that just has a good ring to it.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Nfl, Aaron Rodgers, Starting

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• Always a good clue when you see a quarterback's arm go forward and forward and the hand empty, it's an incomplete pass.

  Mike Tirico

  Hands, Arms, Clue

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• Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

  Mike Leach

  Two, States, Mississippi

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• If you read the good reviews you gotta read the bad reviews. I kind of think of it as like being a quarterback: you get way too much blame when it's bad and way too much credit when it's good.

  David Fincher

  Thinking, Credit, Too Much

  "Exclusive: David Fincher Talks ‘Social Network’, ‘Zodiac’, His Filmmaking Process, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. December 30, 2010.

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• I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

  Andrew Luck

  Team, Order, Play

  "The Shutdown Corner Interview: Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck". Interview with Doug Farrar, sports.yahoo.com. September 5, 2012.

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• We spend a lot of time and effort trying to figure out who's going to be a good NFL quarterback, and we do a very bad job of it. We don't really know. And we also spend a lot of time trying to figure out who will be a good teacher, and we're really bad at that too. We don't know if someone is going to be a good teacher when they start teaching. So what should we do in those situations in which predictions are useless?

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Teacher, Jobs, Teaching

  Goodreads interview, www.goodreads.com. December, 2008.

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• I think that's healthy on a football team for competition to exist in every position and probably most important quarterback so that everyone on the team knows that position isn't handled any different than any other.

  Scott Frost

  Football, Team, Thinking

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• As long as we win games and I harass the quarterback, however I do it, we're good.

  Dwight Freeney

  Winning, Games, Long

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• Writing the book was a pretty cool thing to go through, it really made me think of how crazy a journey it really was for this kid from Redwood City, Calif. When I was 12 years old, I was practicing my signature, but did I ever think I'd be a two-time Super Bowl champ, playing on arguably one of the best franchises of all time with the best quarterback of all time, for the best coach of all time?

  Julian Edelman

  Crazy, Book, Writing

  Source: wwd.com

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• "And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5′ 11". So I just picked baseball."

  Willie Mays

  Inspirational, Basketball, Baseball

  "What It Takes: Willie Mays". Interview with Alice Winkler, learningenglish.voanews.com. August 25, 2017.

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• I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well. There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Team, Thinking, Media

  "Limbaugh resigns from NFL show". www.espn.com. October 2, 2003.

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• Looking at the championship-winning quarterbacks, Edwards remembered their particular talents: Jim McMahon: A great natural leader. Great ability. Great presence. For a guy who was supposed to be blind in one eye, he had as much vision as anyone I've ever seen. He'd know instinctively where he should turn and where he should throw the ball. He was never a problem on the field. He was kind of cocky, but that didn't bother me. He had such a quick delivery and such a natural ability. I told Chicago he'd win them a Super Bowl.

  LaVell Edwards

  Leadership, Eye, Cocky

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• I remember when I was 6 years old and my brother used to go seek out guys that were 13 to come over and play football against me while he was the 'permanent quarterback.' I didn't know exactly what the age difference was, but I was already playing against older guys.

  Junior Seau

  Football, Brother, Age Difference

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