Quotes About Preseason

I think about the next season right away.

I feel like pace is a huge part of being successful through preseason and then on into the season.

Preseason is just a way to screw fans out of money.

I try not to tune in to politics until it's two or three months before the election. Till then, it's like watching preseason football.

Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

When I was a player, it was important to target the first few friendlies and plant a seed in the mind of the gaffer.

Preseason is preseason. It's actually made to make mistakes and to learn from your teammates and plays and stuff.

It's funny, actually... a few clubs called when I was in preseason with Hull in 2017, but I wasn't really that interested. My missus was pregnant, and we were in the process of getting everything ready for our big arrival - that was our top priority, like any expectant parents.

In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you're able to put it together, then you're able to go out there game after game and continue to get better, it was great, especially when I was able to prove a lot of my critics and naysayers wrong.

The preseason's all about getting good film out there, making the most of the opportunities that you get.

These preseason games are good practice for us, to get ready for the real thing.

I think we sometimes think, 'it is just preseason. These games are for the fans mostly.' It's for ourselves to get in shape and play against more competition. Let's face it, this is preseason, but you can develop bad habits during preseason.

In the preseason, in the month of October, I work out almost every day, lifting weights for 20 or 30 minutes, and then during the season I usually lift weights twice a week, sometimes a little more.

I like having those preseason games and exhibitions to really get ready for the regular season and get yourself off to a good start.

In NFL preseason, the coaches don't use 10% of the playbook. They don't game plan. They do nothing. They don't give anything away for the regular season. They try to get everybody safely through it without anybody getting hurt.

I'm not worried about sacks in the preseason.

The preseason games are always weird because you know you're not going to play a ton, but you have to get ready like it's a regular-season game. There can be pressure to go out there and do well.

Thank you... preseason football, for having all the excitement, commercials, and time-outs of the regular season, but with none of the mattering. I appreciate it. Thank you.

Ideally when you set up for the first game of the season... to have put the team to bed would be the ideal situation.

Let's not have a postseason tournament. Let's have a preseason tournament where you're guaranteed three games: we go somewhere, and all the fans come in, and we celebrate our league. We'll have great games to start the year, and we'll do it prior to the year.

Obviously nobody takes preseason lightly. But there's not the same intensity, there's not the same focus.

The whole goal was to get an opportunity to go somewhere for OTAs because OTAs in this league are extremely important, especially for undrafted guys and guys who are on the bubble. You don't get a lot of opportunities in preseason games and training camp, so OTAs are huge.

I used to struggle mentally in these preseason games because you know you're not going to be in there long.

Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.