Quotes About Competition

As an Oklahoma quarterback, you learn to perform under pressure.

It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

I started playing quarterback my junior year of high school.

I don't want to be a quarterback that has all these stats but didn't win a lot of games.

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Every quarterback feels like he has something to prove.

There's obviously a push to protect the quarterback, but you have to give the defensive players a chance. All of the quarterback has to do is pull the ball, and he's a runner. How's the defender going to know if the ball is pulled or not?

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

I've always said, if everything was equal, from money to retirement to endorsement opportunities - all that stuff - if everything was equal, I'd play Arena football over the NFL. It was built for quarterbacks. It was just backyard football.

Quarterbacks will make plays; they always do. But I think the team that runs the ball the best will win.

Andrew Luck is a great quarterback.

The NFL is changing a little bit. The prototypical quarterback seems to be a little bit more mobile now. At the same time, if you can't throw the ball with the best of them, then you won't get an opportunity.

I think the quarterback position is not one that's exempt from competition.

There are a lot of places you can play quarterback and you won't know. You won't know if you're good or bad because there's just not a chance to find out.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

Obviously, I love the idea of athletic quarterbacks.

The ultimate factor in judging quarterbacks is winning games.

One thing you know about playoff competition is this: If you have a hot quarterback and your defense can take the ball away, you don't need to have a dominant defense anymore.

I don't think Joey Harrington is good enough to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

I'm getting better as a quarterback. A lot of that is an understanding of the game, of myself, of who I'm playing against.

It's a quarterback-driven league, so quarterbacks get rewarded a lot of money.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.