Quotes About Football

I have great respect for Greg Knapp, who was my quarterbacks coach in Denver for three years. He taught me so much about playing quarterback in the NFL and made me a better football player.

It's very exciting... what DeAndre brings to the game is truly special. To have the opportunity to play with a football player like that, that's what gets a quarterback out of bed in the morning.

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

When I was a kid, my father brought home the autobiography of Sid Luckman, the great Chicago Bears quarterback - probably an extra copy from the sports department where he worked. It was the first sports biography I ever read.

The new CBA is hurting the league. It's hurting quarterback play.

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

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?

I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.

I like being with the quarterbacks. I like calling the plays.

I coached the Bucs with a Florida State quarterback named Brad Johnson. Things worked out all right.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

Any time a quarterback can protect the ball and not throw interceptions, that's huge.

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.

I don't think there's any question that the Arena League allowed me to flourish. I played three years in a league where the quarterback wasn't supposed to be stopped. We never wanted to kick. When I went into the NFL, I had that same mentality.

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

At the end of the day, I want to have an opportunity to play quarterback in the NFL.

My quarterbacks have to be a member of my family, and that has nothing to do with football. Trust is everything. We have to connect on a deep level in order to really be able to build something together.

I thought at first I was going to be an NFL quarterback. I played until I was a freshman in high school.

Andrew Luck is a great quarterback.

The quarterback I enjoy watching the most is Dan Marino.

Your leader on the offensive line is your center, because the communication really takes place between him and quarterback.

Ultimately, I've just got to keep playing football and try to do it the best I can and try to continue to be a high-level quarterback, and if I do that, trust that in the long run things will work out.

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 never intended to be a running quarterback.