Quotes About Strategy

The best advice I try to give a young quarterback is, you need to know what you're doing. You need to know what you're doing, because if you know where to go with the football, you can get rid of it and throw it and you won't get hit.

I think I always wanted to be quarterback so I could call the play.

Sometimes you can have the quarterback and no system. Sometimes, you can have a system with an average quarterback and do well.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

That's the thing: To be successful in the NFL, you have to start by having a quality coach and a quarterback that can kind of lead the team. If you have the trust of the quarterback, then you can build everywhere else.

Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as whether he actually does it or not.

I noticed a lot of dual-threat quarterbacks in the shotgun or in the pistol, a lot of them don't last forever. I want to be in the pocket.

I never intended to be a running quarterback.

Coaches are well aware, especially at quarterback, that it's not the system but the player who comes first.

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.

When you lose a good player, it's like losing a quarterback.

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 all goes through the quarterback.

Quarterback is such an important role.

To have two separate game plans, you're asking for way too much of your team. That's why it's important to have quarterbacks that know your system, understand your system and have been a part of your system.

If you have a settled quarterback situation, you're pretty doggone good.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

When you've got a quarterback's rhythm in the game, you can be a pretty deadly pass rusher.

I think it's really difficult for a young team to beat an experienced quarterback like Philip Rivers twice in one season.

Quarterback play is important for every level of football.

It's hard to play quarterback in professional football.

Obviously, the quarterback position is an extremely important position.

You've got to protect your quarterback.

Look, you can never have enough quarterbacks.