Quarterback Quotes - Page 8

• Sometimes armchair quarterbacks are doing it to enhance their own image. I'm just not comfortable with that idea.

  George W. Bush

  Ideas, Sometimes, Armchairs

  Source: www.aarp.org

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• I think rap was a better move for me but football's been my love since I learned how to walk. I was gonna be a running back or quarterback. That was my life. That was it but things happen for a reason. I wouldn't trade this in for nothing.

  Rakim

  Football, Running, Rap

  Source: halftimeonline.net

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• As a quarterback, can you throw it where you are looking?

  Phil Simms

  Where You Are

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• Players get a window of opportunity.  Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.

  Drew Henson

  Opportunity, Player, Window

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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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• When I played football, basketball and baseball, I was always a starter. I played baseball as the number three or number four hitter. Playing baseball, I was the third baseman or pitcher. Football, I was the quarterback. I was always versatile. It came to me naturally. It was always easy.

  Future

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

  Source: uproxx.com

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• I see myself as a quarterback who had the run the option for the offense to be successful.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Running, Successful, Offense

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• We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

  Bob Lilly

  Baltimore, Passed Away, Young

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• Patriots quarterback Tom Brady says he thinks it would be great if Donald Trump was president. Which is really weird because I thought Brady didn't like things that are filled with too much air.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Air, President

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• Tight end is one of the hardest positions to play in football. It's right up there with quarterback and cornerback. You have to have the skills of a wide receiver and the strength of an offensive lineman, and it's not easy to balance those two.

  Tony Gonzalez

  Football, Play, Skills

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• The biggest thing isn't necessarily how I play, but that we win. That's my number-one goal. I could be the worst quarterback out there, but if we come out with a victory that's all that matters to me.

  Ben Roethlisberger

  Winning, Play, Numbers

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• I really find myself doing a lot better when I'm injured, so sometimes I look forward to it. This is the style that I play-being physical, running the football, making adjustments on the pass, avoiding the rush. Those sorts of things go with the total package of a quarterback.

  Steve McNair

  Football, Running, Play

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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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• You can find the intangibles of being a quarterback in almost every profession in the world.  There's nothing like it.

  Brady Quinn

  World, Profession

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• Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

  Michael Chabon

  Tuesday, Novelists, Reptiles

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• Playing quarterback ... it's no joke ... The difference here with Johnny Manziel, there's a lot of style and very little substance.

  Boomer Esiason

  Differences, Style, Substance

  "Showtime’s ‘Inside The NFL,’ Choice Quotes and Schedule" by April Neale, www.monstersandcritics.com. December 17, 2014.

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• Why do I have three Super Bowl rings and still think there's something greater out there for me? I mean, maybe a lot of people would say, 'Hey man, this is what is.' I reached my goal, my dream, my life. I think, 'God, it's got to be more than this.' I mean this isn't, this can't be what it's all cracked up to be. I love playing football and I love being quarterback for this team. But at the same time, I think there are a lot of other parts about me that I'm trying to find.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Dream, Team

  Interview with Daniel Schorn, www.cbsnews.com. November 4, 2005.

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• I think the thing that he wants even more that would solidify his position would be a couple championships. Hopefully we can get that done. Peyton Manning is already in the conversation of the greatest player to ever play and if he wins one or two more, he probably ends up being the greatest quarterback to ever play the game.

  John Elway

  Couple, Winning, Player

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• Honestly, being a 5'11 quarterback, not too many people think that you can play in the National Football League. And so for me, you know, I knew that my height doesn't define my skill set, you know? I believed in my talent. I believed in what God gave me. I believed in the knowledge that I have of the game.

  Russell Wilson

  Football, Thinking, Play

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• Being a quarterback, the way I believe is there's always so much room to improve. Any little detail. I always cut up the film and try to watch what I can improve on, whatever little detail it is.

  Russell Wilson

  Believe, Cutting, Trying

  "Pete Carroll Tries To Rally The Team". Russell Wilson's remarks during the Seahawks team meeting at SpringHill Suites in Peoria/Glendale, Arizona, doorfliesopen.com. January 1, 2016.

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• I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to find similarities in life, no matter what it is so they're going to try to put you in a box with other African-American quarterbacks - Vick, Newton, Randall Cunningham, Warren MoonThat's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.

  Robert Griffin III

  America, Goal, Trying

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• You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

  Robert Griffin III

  Running, Mold, Roles

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