Quotes from Nick Foles

Getting through the reads in an efficient manner. I don't want to stay on receivers too long to where a bad decision is made.

Everyone knows I'm sort of goofy. Some guys are really serious when they play. I'm not.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate.

I have fun, but I don't always want it to be on camera.

Throughout my career, I've always loved hitting deep shots over the top. A lot of times, those plays just come to you. You don't want to force it.

Since that moment in Houston where I fractured my collarbone, I've experienced a lot more experiences in the NFL than I had up to that point. A lot of them great, some of them not so great.

Having a child, that's huge. I get to go home and hug my daughter. That's the greatest thing in the world.

I think the big thing with Philly is I have such a great relationship with all the personnel decision makers that if there ever does come a day where I am traded or something does happen, it's going to be an open conversation.

James Spader is a good actor.

When I was in Kansas City and having a tough time in my career, I decided to go to seminary to continue my spiritual growth.

When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live.

You could ask yourself, 'Hey, when you were 20, are you the same person?' You're not. You may have the same values, you might look a little older, you might have some things that are the same, but your heart, everything about you, starts growing, changing - good or bad. It just depends on how you approach life.

Sometimes, the hardest things are just the simple things. Basically, get out of your own head and just go play the game you know how to play.

I've been overlooked, praised, questioned, lauded, labeled, celebrated, and derided - sometimes all in the span of a single week. That's life in the NFL.

After my time with a certain NFL team, I wanted to retire.

In sports, everything is a process.

I've always held myself to high standards.

It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player.

My mom and dad both worked when I was little... My mom, her mom died when she was 11, so she had a rough childhood as well. She put herself through college in three years at the University of Texas - while working a job to pay for it.

I've wanted to be a starter ever since I was a little kid, so I wasn't going to give up on that dream.

I shouldn't have to come out and say, 'Hey, I should be a starter again.' There's a lot of guys that say that, that shouldn't be starters. The key is to go out on the field and lead your team to show people that, 'Hey, this guy is a good guy in the locker room. He can lead a team. He did it on the field. He's shown it.'

I think, as people, we deal with struggles.

We might be in the NFL, but we still have our daily struggles.