Quotes from Taysom Hill

I understand football is a freaky sport, and injuries happen.

It's cool that someone would be willing to pay to wear your jersey around.

Listen, trials and difficult times can help you become better and move forward, or they can cause you to step backward. It's how you handle those situations that shows who you can become.

When I was young, I would try to give the right answers. 'I'm going to try to slide.' But at the end of the day, I finally realized that I am going to do whatever it takes. I'm going to leave everything out there.

I think that's one of the things I've learned through my injuries is that I need to play smarter.

Football is always going to be a means to an end. The physicality of the game - your body can't hold up. There's life after football, and I do worry. I don't want to put myself in jeopardy. I probably need to be more cautious, but this is me. It still isn't going to change the way I play.

My leadership mentality is to outwork everybody else around me, and hopefully the guys respond well to that and work harder for themselves.

My mindset is to come in and compete.

Football has molded me in many ways, and I've had great experiences. But when I step back, I know that football is not what drives me. It's not really what's important.

I kind of have one speed that I know, and that's to go as hard as I can.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

No, I'm not perfect in any way.

I had a lot of ups and downs through my career at BYU, through different injuries and stuff. The fan bases have always been right there to pick me up and support me through all those injuries.

When you're one-dimensional, someone can just focus on that and really stop that.

I don't want to put off negative vibes to my teammates. That's kind of my leadership mentality.