Quotes from Carson Wentz

Everything that comes with the game, I think I will handle it extremely easily. I don't let a lot of that outside stuff bother me.

If you can play, you can play - and I know I can. If anyone wants to doubt that, heck - I'm more than ready to prove you wrong.

Timing and accuracy is really what matters at the end of the day.

For me, I stay pretty focused on football, and then at the end of the day, you just go home and relax.

You just control what you can control and just hopefully go win games and keep getting better.

At the end of the day, you just want to go to a team that believes in you... and hopefully wants to build a franchise around you.

I listen to worship music before the game to calm my nerves and just go out and have fun. It's a game, and I try to enjoy it.

A lot of guys have tons of talent, but it boils down to the mental side of things. Preparing and knowing your offense and studying the defense. Being able to read and react quickly. The mental side is often overlooked.

Names that come to mind that I've learned from are Tom Brady - the way he gets the ball out and is so decisive. You can tell he is in total control out there. Another name is Aaron Rodgers, and how he's in total command. And also, Cam Newton, the way he has fun. I love that part of it.

Playing football in Fargo has a total big-time feel. Everyone says it's FCS and it's a smaller school, but in Fargo, North Dakota, and in the state of North Dakota, NDSU football is the real deal.

Honestly, I always told my coaches my whole career - we'll practice two-minute drills in practice, like, once a week and everything - I'm just like, 'Those are my favorite time of football.' I'm out there in total control, just getting everything lined up, getting everybody on the same page, and obviously, usually it's pass after pass after pass.

I do have a little chip on my shoulder. I want to make a name for this state. I want to represent this state well so that's kinda the chip on my shoulder in that regard.

I'm not an idiot; I can make adjustments to my life. But I like having a schedule.

If I scramble, I might get 5, 10, 15, 20 yards, but I'm not that fast. I always want to get it to the guys that can make plays.

I want to be playing into January for the rest of my career, God willing.

Coming from a smaller school, you kind of have a chip on your shoulder, so to speak.

I need to play smarter and protect the football.

I think leadership is just something that comes really natural to me.

I'll be in a cadence, and I'll start to see one thing that a defense is starting to do, I'm like, 'I saw that two months ago on film.' And then that triggers whatever call you need to make.

I'm a competitive son of a gun. I don't like losing. I want to be the best out there. I want to lead the troops. I want to kind of take the bull by the horns and be in control.

I've read some things that people said about me, and some of it's not even close to accurate. Honestly, I don't even have ESPN in my house. There's really no point.

I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.

Central Michigan was the one FBS team that recruited me hard.

I'm a very motivated person. I don't need extra motivation.