Quotes About Determination

The contention is if you don't do it in the first quarter, if you don't box out and control the glass in the first quarter, you are not going to do it in the fourth quarter and overtime.

I think I've always been a player who's done better in the second half, who's done better in the fourth quarter. That's the fun time to play, when everything you've worked for the whole game boils down to those last few possessions.

Every play, I'm trying to get as many shots on the opposing team as I can, so when you get to the fourth quarter, they obviously don't want to be on the field anymore.

The fourth quarter is where players are made.

If the run game's not working, you'll most likely succeed in the pass game, and even if there's a game where the run game and the pass game's not working, you've got to find a way to continue to win. You can't get too caught up in one play. You can't get too caught up one quarter or one drive.

Just understand that I'm trying to get to the quarterback by any means necessary. And if I have to throw somebody out of the way to do it, it is what it is.

Third-string quarterbacks, fourth-string quarterbacks - they get their opportunities, and they shine.

We talk about toughness as a quarterback: it's not sometimes the physical part that you see; it's the mental toughness and the 'I'm going to stand in here, take this shot,' and 'I'm going to deliver it to my guy.'

As a quarterback, you always believe in yourself. You always know you can do things.

By running routes on air, with any quarterback, if I did routes on air with a D-II quarterback, I should catch most of the balls.

And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11". So I just picked baseball.

My mindset is I'm a quarterback. But I love being on the field.

If you're the quarterback and want to be the best on the field, you've got to act like it.

I don't believe that you can be too short as a quarterback. It's not about height.

No one ever dreams about being a backup quarterback.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

I handled myself as a quarterback in the manner I thought necessary.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.

Every quarterback feels like he has something to prove.

That's why I play football... to be the quarterback, to be the guy with the ball in his hands.

I set the bar high, and I'll do anything, whatever it takes to win. I care more about this game than most people ever will. When you mix a lot of those things with a winning mentality, it's a good thing to have as a franchise quarterback.

If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.'

I'm a quarterback at the end of the day. I want to prove that each and every day I go out and practice.