Quotes from Carson Palmer

I do not miss the hours you have to spend preparing for the upcoming season in July, in March, April. I do not miss half my day being in the gym... to get ready to play.

In order to win in the NFL... you've got to be desperate to win a championship.

I'm not a guy who can sit there and look at a diagram of a play and understand it.

I'm not going to be depressed about my career however it ends because I've met great people, I've played with great teammates, I've played for great coaches, and I've lived out a lifelong dream. But it wasn't just about a dream of playing in the NFL. It was about a dream of playing in the NFL and winning Super Bowl rings.

Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.

The game has changed, the game is getting bigger, faster, stronger, and there needs to be more protection.

It's such a passionate fan base in Arizona, and such a smart fan base.

Football is great and I love it and I'm so fortunate and blessed to be able to do it. But I wholeheartedly believe I'm not defined by what I do on the football field. I'm defined by the father I am, the husband I am, the family member I am and the impact I have on others.

There's nothing like adversity to fuel the fire.

Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren't defensive ends that were Mario Williams - 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.

Playing quarterback is a glamorous job. It's awesome. It's everything I dreamed it would be. But after a while, it loses its glamour. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job. Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work.

You can make as much as the top-paid quarterback in the league when you're the Dallas Cowboys quarterback if you do take less.

I think it's really difficult for a young team to beat an experienced quarterback like Philip Rivers twice in one season.

I think Burrow is gonna be a great NFL quarterback.

If you still produce at the quarterback position, it doesn't matter what age you are.

For 15 years I have been lucky enough to play quarterback in the NFL and it has been the most incredible experience of my life. There wasn't one second that I took it for granted or failed to appreciate what a tremendous privilege it is.

I never watched a Heisman ceremony when I was a kid. I didn't even know it was held at the Downtown Athletic Club when I was a candidate. I thought it was at Radio City Music Hall or something.

I'm a Hall of Famer at retirement.

I've thrown a lot of curls over the years.

My favorite receiver of all time? You can't pick a favorite receiver.

I guess that's one of the things about playing quarterback. The quarterback gets most of the recognition.

The head coach makes the decision about what's best for the team.

I've spent a number of years hoping and wanting to get somewhere, where an organization is willing to do whatever it takes to win because it's not like that everywhere.

I've been playing quarterback for a long time, and there's a ton of expectations no matter where you are and how you got there. That's part of the game and part of the position. That's part of the reason I love playing the position, is the expectations and the pressure and all of the outside things that come along with it.