Quotes About Focus

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.

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.

When you're a quarterback, and you're dropping back, I can't watch what the receivers are doing.

Quarterback play starts with your eyes and feet. Those have to be in the right place and have to be on time.

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.'

I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.

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

If he can basically prepare, be the starting quarterback, come in and execute and keep his head right, then I feel good about Weeden.

I'm playing quarterback, I'm playing football, and I don't try to make it more than that.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

You could arm-chair quarterback what the president did or didn't do, or was asked to do or asked not to do. I guess I'm more focused on what's going forward.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

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.

Number one, I tell the quarterbacks, do your job. You've gotta do your job before you can even worry about anybody else or any other situation.

You've got to find the quarterback. Once you find the quarterback, you can fix the other things.

As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.

Always having that chip on your shoulder is an important thing for a quarterback.

I definitely wanted to be playing the quarterback position.

I've been playing this position since I was about 9 years old. For me, it's just, 'Come out here and be the best quarterback I can be.'

You don't want a quarterback like Eli Manning looking down the field, ever. Ever, ever, ever.

I would look straight back at the quarterback thinking the ball's coming straight to me... and as soon as I looked back, the ball's going right over my head.