Quotes About Quarterbacks

#1. The history says quarterbacks get paid more than running backs, but I think it depends on the caliber of the player - what you're getting, not just what the position is.

Reggie Bush

#2. Young quarterbacks do well because they have a great defense.

Steve Mariucci

#3. I should also point out that there is a secret code in each chapter and if you figure it out it unlocks the next level and you get better weapons to fight the zombie quarterbacks on the Pegasus Bridge. So get cracking, you task-oriented monkey brains.

Amy Poehler

#4. When you watch Tiger Woods, you're in awe of what he can do with a seven-iron. Watching Matthew Stafford from up here, he's head and shoulders above most college quarterbacks.

Gary Danielson

#5. I'm definitely a football fan, so I try to stay up with how teams are doing, and you end up getting a lot of buddies that play on certain teams. I wouldn't say I watch too much of other quarterbacks.

Andrew Luck

#6. Warren Moon and Doug Williams really didn't run that much. That's the negative stereotype when it comes to African-American quarterbacks, that most of us just run. Those guys threw it around. I like to think I can throw it around a little bit.

Robert Griffin III

#7. This must be the weirdest thing a football coach has ever seen: two quarterbacks making out.

Miranda Kenneally

#8. Andre Tippett was an impact player who consistently played at a level that set him apart. Accounting for him limited what an offense could do. He made quarterbacks nervous.and rightly so.

Raymond Berry

#9. I've never really gone for the razzle-dazzle types: no quarterbacks, no flashy guys, and no Prince Charmings.

Anna Kendrick

#10. When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.

Warren Moon

#11. I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years,

Steve Young

#12. I truly believe Colin Kaepernick could be one of the greatest quarterbacks ever,

Ron Jaworski

#13. And my father didn't have money for me to go to college. And at that particular time they didn't have black quarterbacks, and I don't think I could have made it in basketball, because I was only 5' 11. So I just picked baseball.

Willie Mays

#14. Marino was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2005, and his name always comes up when the conversation centers on the greatest quarterbacks of all time. But his greatness comes with an asterisk: He never won the Big Game.

Don Yaeger

#15. Players get a window of opportunity. Quarterbacks, specifically, usually get one.

Drew Henson

#16. You know, quarterbacks, I think greatness in quarterbacks is taking what you've got, whether it's a great team, a good team, or a struggling team and make them better.

Fran Tarkenton

#17. There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.

Joshilyn Jackson

#18. If you look around, there are very few really super quarterbacks. There are just very few. If you're lucky enough to have one, lucky enough that one of these Andrew Lucks is available when you have the top pick, then that's just a matter of luck. You can't attribute that to anything else.

Bob McNair

#19. We know who is out there as far as available quarterbacks, but in reality, no one would be more prepared or capable as a No. 2 at this point than Dan. He got more snaps in the preseason than any of our quarterbacks and continues to get better.

Steve Mariucci

#20. I think that's another misconception, [that] our quarterbacks run all the time. Quarterbacks can help you in the run game, they complement what you do, but it's a running back-driven run game.

Chip Kelly

#21. I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

Bill Parcells

#22. We need the quarterbacks. It's a passing league and a quarterback-driven league. We need the Peyton Mannings in football uniforms out there playing - the Tom Bradys, the Drew Breeses, the Philip Riverses - we need those guys instead of them standing on the sideline.

John Madden

#23. Quarterbacks have to ask the crowd to quiet down. Pitchers never do.

Thomas Boswell

#24. It's hard not to follow other careers of NFL quarterbacks in the 24/7 news-at-your-fingertips society we live in.

Andrew Luck

#25. Preseason football is hard to evaluate. It's never going to be clean for the quarterbacks. You have to overcome the ugly plays and be productive. It's a component of leadership that is necessary. The guys that make it in the league survive that.

Mike McCarthy

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

Fran Tarkenton

#27. We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am ... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.

Dan Marino

#28. You have to have quarterbacks who can keep up with everybody else. And I'm not saying that just black quarterbacks can do that, but more black quarterbacks are given a chance because they fit the mold.

Daunte Culpepper

#29. Novelist time is reptile time; novelists tend to be ruminant and brooding, nursers of ancient grievances, second-guessers, Tuesday afternoon quarterbacks, retrospectators, endlessly, like slumping hitters, studying the film of their old whiffs.

Michael Chabon

#30. Don't let the Monday morning quarterbacks stop you from being bold. You've got to set a high bar.

Antonio Villaraigosa

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

Matthew Stafford

#32. Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs - unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times.

Hunter S. Thompson

#33. Quarterbacks are untouchable nowadays. If you hit a quarterback too hard, or if you fall on him with too much weight - which is a judgment thing from a professional standpoint - you're going to get flagged.

Mario Williams

#34. Quarterbacks are always ready.

Jack Kemp

#35. I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

Peyton Manning

#36. Quarterbacks should wear dresses

Jack Lambert

#37. The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.

Jeffrey Lurie

#38. We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

Bob Lilly

#39. All around, grown men were getting out of cars and shoving at each other like fifteen-year-olds, the bunch of juiced-up, armchair quarterbacks ready to peanut-gallery it up: The closest they were going to get to the octagon was standing on the outside of the chicken wire looking in.

J.R. Ward

#40. The good quarterbacks in this league, if you're not playing your best, sometimes will win a game for you

Kerry Rhodes

#41. The mold that everyone is seeing nowadays is kind of the Aaron Rodgers mold - I try to mix and match from the different quarterbacks.

Robert Griffin III

#42. Mississippi State has two pretty looking quarterbacks.

Mike Leach

#43. There are a very few consistent, common threads among the most successful NFL quarterbacks. Most of them are intangibles, which you can't measure with a physical test. You need leadership ability, competitiveness, drive, and will. You need focus, poise, and charisma.

Drew Brees

#44. I can't compare quarterbacks as apples and oranges in my mind because everybody's in a different system.

John Elway

#45. Great quarterbacks, good quarterbacks, make plays.

Fran Tarkenton