Quotes from Carson Palmer

Football, for me, is the best medicine in the world. This is what I love.

The decision to retire was 100 percent just me, and so you're never sure how you're going to feel.

I fell in love with having my feet in the water and a fly rod in my hands.

I'm great at retirement. I'm excelling at retirement... I've loved every second of it.

Crowds, I'm not good in crowds. I almost had a mental breakdown, I almost lost my cool at Disneyland one time when the park was closing, and I turn around and saw just a sea of people coming at me and a stroller full of kids.

In this league you have to throw sidearm sometimes; you're going to have to drop your arm, move while shuffling your feet. You're never going to be set.

I love Sunday night after the game - you win, you go to the parking lot, you grab a beer, hang out for a little bit. Then I can't wait to get home and watch the game on my iPad. I love getting in Monday, and I can't wait to see what the team we are getting ready to play is doing on third down.

When I was a kid, I just wanted to be outside. I didn't grow up watching football. Didn't ever watch a college game. I watched 'Monday Night Football' because my dad liked it, but we didn't sit around on Sundays. I was outside, playing, training, whatever.

When you really think about it and look at the number of quarterbacks who come through the league, not many of them have Super Bowl careers.

I love playing. I want to win a Super Bowl.

Playing quarterback in the National Football League, getting to the Super Bowl is an incredible challenge.

The only thing I can tell you about a Super Bowl ring is, hey, not everybody gets one. But that's something I have to live with.

When you like the coach and the guys in the locker room, and you know you can still play at a high level, and you feel like you can help take a team to a Super Bowl, and you know you're job's not gonna be as hard as it may have been before - it's just fun.

You can't just hope you draft well and not go after free agents and you end up in the Super Bowl. You got to go get it.

8-8 is like winning the Super Bowl for the organization in Cincinnati.

There's so many factors that go into a Super Bowl championship that rely heavily on the organization.

I know the feeling after a catastrophic loss, to be so close and have it all just end.

I don't have to play football for money.

That's why I like to play golf, because I'm terrible at it and it's so difficult.

I've played in every type of situation. But to not have one run in the playoffs where you just make one of those magical runs? That's what I want.

I don't like getting into hot cars when it's been sitting outside. You're already sweating and you get into the car and you're profusely sweating.

I've been on a number of teams where there are guys you can't stand seeing walking into the facility on a Wednesday.

Extra thick skin is something every Bruce Arians' quarterback needs to have because the stuff he says to media is rated G compared to the stuff he says to your face on the sideline and after the game in the locker room and throughout the week.

I remember after that, when it was announced I was going to the Heisman ceremony, I didn't think I was going to win it because everybody was saying there was a bias against West Coast teams. I really hadn't paid attention to it. Winning the Heisman wasn't really a goal when I was younger. My goal was to go to USC and win a national championship.