Quotes About Teamwork

I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.

That's why I play football... to be the quarterback, to be the guy with the ball in his hands.

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.

Quarterbacks like guys who try to do everything they can for them and put it on the line for them. So that's what I try to do.

You don't throw your quarterback under the bus, the guy who makes you who you are.

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

Everything falls on the quarterback.

It's always good when the offensive head coach and the quarterback think like-minded. That's a good thing.

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.

A quarterback has to trust the quarterback coach. And the quarterback coach has to trust him.

Andrew Luck is a great quarterback.

My job is to make the quarterback position as easy as we can.

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.

For me, and I said this even before the draft, I think being with the same team for my whole career would be something that would be very special to me because, especially at the quarterback position, that means that we won a lot of games, hopefully Super Bowls, 'cause that's the end goal.

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

To show my quarterbacks how much I believe in them, I let them pick their favorite plays that we'll run in the game. On the nights before a game we'll sit down in a hotel conference room and we'll have six third-down calls for certain distances.

Our players are educated. They know. If you knowingly break the rules, we're going to move on. We'll find someone else to play quarterback.

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

You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.

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

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

When you look at the best of the best, those quarterbacks played with one team. And if you point at a couple guys who didn't, who changed teams, it really was against their will.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.