Quotes from Josh Rosen

O.K., my family isn't, like, stupid-wealthy. But I'm coming from a place where if football doesn't work out, I don't have to work at McDonald's.

Coming out of high school, Ricky Town was the dude. He was going to SC; I was going to UCLA. He was No. 1 in the country; I was No. 2.

There are guys who have no business being in school, but they're here because this is the path to the NFL. There's no other way. Then there's the other side that says raise the SAT eligibility requirements. OK, raise the SAT requirement at Alabama and see what kind of team they have. You lose athletes, and then the product on the field suffers.

I am who I am, and I think that's why I'm very grateful to be an Arizona Cardinal: because the team that picked me, they picked me.

I have a superiority complex I need to get rid of.

Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself.

I'm not going to pretend to be 50. I just want to be happy and enjoy the experiences I have and take advantage of every opportunity I've been given.

My father has fought to protect people from predatory pharmaceutical companies and to make sure drug payments and kickbacks to doctors are disclosed.

Your primary job is to be a football player, and you've got to accomplish that task before you go out and do anything else, really.

I don't think you can go back to any team I ever played on and find someone who will say I was a bad teammate.

All my teammates throughout my entire career in football had my back. I loved them; they loved me.

I'm not gonna be someone I'm not, because I don't want them to draft someone who's not me, and then I have to try and fill that role. I'm gonna be me, and hopefully a team falls in love with me.

Over the course of my career, I'm trying to win Super Bowls... I am an NFL football player now, and I'm going to try the best that I can to be the best one.

I will be O.K. without football. I want to fight for the people who won't be O.K.

Football and school don't go together. They just don't. Trying to do both is like trying to do two full-time jobs.

I think my game isn't very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.

Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.

I can be a prickly personality at times, but none of it's ever malicious. I don't think anyone who really knows me on a deep level thinks I'm a bad guy. I like to think I'm a good guy.

I'm a perfectionist, and I very rarely satisfy myself when I come in and watch the film the next day.

I want people to know I'm a real person, that I don't have someone running my Instagram; I don't have someone prewriting all of my interviews and stuff.

I broke my left arm when I was 8, at a friend's house, when we were jumping off a balcony and throwing down dunks.

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.

I was thrown into the spotlight pretty quickly at UCLA.

It's different in the NFL because you're getting paid to get hit. In college, you're taking hits for someone else to make money.