Quotes from Derek Carr

I want to be perfect at everything, knowing I'll never be perfect at it, but that's my goal.

I think it's more important to pray for my son than go out with my friends drinking at a bar until midnight while he waits for me to come home.

I think just that dog inside of you. When things suck, just to still fight.

We have a goal of winning the Super Bowl and that's just where our focus is. It's like a laser focus.

When I got to college, my coach let me handle everything, from calling the plays to changing protections to checking in the run game. He let me do absolutely everything at the line.

The only predraft talk I listen to is the coaches and the GMs.

A game manager - I wish people would call me that. That's a compliment.

I got my process down, I got my way I go about things and I surround myself with good people around me and they've done a great job of protecting me.

I had some definite weaknesses my rookie year that I had to work on and hopefully I've gotten better at those.

I just want to play ball - and I want to do it wearing a silver-and-black jersey.

If you see anything, you see I post a lot of Scriptures.

I had a whole bunch of things I knew I needed to work on from self-scouting. I knew on certain routes what I needed to do and ways to use my eyes and shoulders and manipulate coverage.

I feel like, even if a guy is covered, I can put the ball where it needs to be so we can have a successful play.

When you're losing, crap happens.

Being in a boot is not fun. Being on crutches is not fun.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

I work my tail off to make sure that our city, our fans, our team, our coaches can enjoy winning.

It's the same mindset I had in college. As long as I come in and work every day, it worked in college and I'm just going to continue to grind my tail off here in the NFL.

The game has slowed down for me. It's so much easier than it was. I feel like I see things better, and I can take advantage of what I see.

We want to put pressure on the defense.

I just want to make sure that my teammates will be taken care of.

Everything can look good in theory and in practice it all falls apart.

I don't give false claims any due.

Making false claims about somebody before you know them, and about a group of guys, that has no business in our world. If we're trying to promote peace and love, I don't think that has any place.