Quarterback Quotes - Page 3

• I don't like the rules about you can't hit the quarterback.

  Jim McMahon

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• For me, a quarterback's best friend, especially a young quarterback's best friend, is a coach who believes in him.

  Robert Griffin III

  Friendship, Believe, Young

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• If you're a quarterback, you want everything on your shoulders. You want to be the one to make the decisions.

  Tom Brady

  Football, Nfl, Decision

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Performing at my best is important to me and should be to everyone. I am blessed that my dad is a chiropractor. Getting adjusted regularly - along with practicing other good health habits that my mom helped me to establish - are all part of my goal to win in life and on the field.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Life, Family, Mom

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• I look for a quarterback who can run and not a running back who can throw. I want a quarterback who can beat you with his arm. We are not a Tim Tebow type of quarterback team. I am not going to run my quarterback 20 times on power runs.

  Chip Kelly

  Running, Team, Looks

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• You don't know anybody is in the stands when you are out there on the field playing. You don't know what the number is or who, what, or whatever. You are playing and trying to give your best. When you are in the game you got so much going on in your head and your so attentive in listening to the quarterback call whatever shots he's going to call. Your mind is concentrated on your responsibility and what you have to do on every given play. You don't know anything else is around, but your responsibility.

  Lenny Moore

  Responsibility, Giving, Listening

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

  Warren Moon

  Whole Life, Position, Whole

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

  Fran Tarkenton

  Play

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• Being an NFL quarterback there's a lot of advantages that come with it. There are a lot of doors that open when you're a quarterback but at the same time there's a lot of scrutiny. There are a lot of things you can't do as well.

  Colin Kaepernick

  Nfl, Doors, Scrutiny

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• In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

  Warren Moon

  Sports, Football, Team

  IGN Interview, www.ign.com. August 4, 2006.

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• Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

  Thomas Boswell

  Crowds, Quiet, Pitcher

  Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books

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• A lot of quarterbacks have big arms and can make all the throws, but the most important thing is knowledge of the game, controlling the offense and, more than anything, limiting mistakes. Knowing what good plays to get your team into at the line of scrimmage and what bad plays to get out of.

  Deshaun Watson

  Team, Mistake, Games

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• That's one thing you learn as a quarterback: focus. The better you are at focusing and the more you can continue to stay focused for a four-hour stage and really be zeroed in on what is happening, the better you play, the longer you play.

  Carson Palmer

  Focus, Stay Focused, Focused

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• The linebacker has to make multiple, multiple decisions on every play. Not only what his assignment is and what the play is, but all the way along the line, different angles, how to take on blocks, how to tackle, the leverage to play with, the angle to run to and so forth, the technique. So many different things happen in a split second during the course of the play, just like it is for a quarterback. The more of those things that you can do right, slow down, get the most important things, not get distracted by all the stuff that's happening, but just really zero in on a target.

  Bill Belichick

  Running, Zero, Block

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• I think the only time I doubted myself was my senior year in high school. I was not offered a Division I scholarship. I remember a scout from Ohio State coming in and looking at my film. He was all excited to meet me. Then he met me and I was 5'10" and he said that I was not a Division I quarterback.

  Doug Flutie

  Senior, School, Thinking

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• My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

  Paul Pierce

  Running, Thinking, Games

  Interview with Hilary Goldstein, www.ign.com. September 25, 2002.

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• I would assume everybody thinks they are a top-five quarterback. I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.

  Joe Flacco

  Jobs, Successful, Thinking

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• How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more or less every week. Howie Long once gave a great explanation of what it was like to get beat by quarterback legend Joe Montana. He said it was like getting knocked out in a pillow fight. You never felt the blow. And you were all kinds of mad afterward. That's as good as any description of Daniel. ... So what does Daniel do? Something right. On every play. In chess, grandmasters will tell you that it's the most innocuous-looking moves that are deadliest.

  Joe Posnanski

  Moving, Fighting, Blow

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• The chemistry between a quarterback and a receiver is almost like a dance.

  Jerry Rice

  Chemistry, Receiver

  Source: bleacherreport.com

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• First of all, I wish everyone who loved football could stand in the quarterback's shoes just for a play, because I think it would be tremendously humbling to anyone who loved the game to say, "I didn't -- I had no idea." You can think about what it would be like, and the cameras are getting better at giving that perspective, that one that the skycam comes down and you get a sense of it, but you just -- you don't know.

  Steve Young

  Football, Thinking, Games

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• As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

  Joe Montana

  Football, Air, Hands

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Do we need a top-flight quarterback? Do human beings need air to breath?

  Jim Harbaugh

  Air, Needs, Flight

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

  Bill Parcells

  Thinking, Nfl, Inspiring Football

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• I wanna kiss you. I couldn't care less about the team struggling. What we know is we can improve. Chad Pennington, our quarterback, missed the first part of the season, and we struggled. We're looking to next season. We're looking to make a noise now, and I wanna kiss you!

  Joe Namath

  Team, Struggle, Kissing

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• If I believe that I became the best quarterback that I could possibly be, the best football player that I could possibly be... That's how I'm going to measure my career as a success or not.

  Tim Tebow

  Football, Believe, Player

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