Quotes About Teamwork

You're the quarterback, if you lose games... it's the head coach and the quarterback. If you're not winning, it's on you.

Nobody, not even the head coach, would do anything to the football unilaterally, such as adjust the amount of pressure in a ball, without the quarterback not knowing. It would have to be the quarterback's idea.

No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

I think anytime you can take as much off the quarterback as possible, that only helps them out in the long run.

That's what I've learned the Patriots Way being: holding yourself accountable and attention to detail. It doesn't matter who you are, how long you've played, whether you're the nutritionist or starting quarterback, you're going to be held accountable, and you have a role.

Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.

My mindset is I'm a quarterback. But I love being on the field.

With any rookie quarterback, the more help you can get the better.

When you put pressure on the quarterback, everything looks a lot better.

Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

Quarterbacks are leaders; it is what it is.

You have to have a great offensive line, great quarterback and guys around you that believe in you and help you.

Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

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

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

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

In Detroit, the quarterbacks lift with all the linebackers and running backs and everybody else, so I'm doing that whole thing.

My advice to the next quarterback that misses an entire year is to understand there is a little difference going out on the road again. You miss that. When you're hurt, you do not feel like you are part of it.

You have to be able to do everything as a quarterback, and that's not necessarily taking care of your job but making sure you're preparing everyone else to go out and play well. And make sure you have them in the right mindset when they step on the field.

You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.

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.

No matter who's at quarterback, you've got to be prepared and be ready to help out the team.