Romo's Quotes

#1. Jessica Simpson attended boyfriend Tony Romo's football game. The Cowboys quarterback had the worst game of his career. It's a bad year for the name Simpson. Even O. J. is pissed - he feels like they're making his name look bad.

Chelsea Handler

#2. You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.

Tony Romo

#3. I feel like I'm going to be with the Cowboys the rest of my career, definitely. I love it.

Tony Romo

#4. As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.

Tony Romo

#5. It's funny, you can get over the win pretty quick and get ready for the next opponent. When you lose, it just eats at you ... What could we have done? What should I have done? All those things. Just part of playing professional sports and sports in general.

Tony Romo

#6. There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.

Tony Romo

#7. Work hard, do things the right way, and things will go your way.

Tony Romo

#8. It's easy to say you're more mature because all of a sudden you have a child, but it's a process.

Tony Romo

#9. You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.

Tony Romo

#10. There's no question in my mind: not only am I going to be able to make it through 16 games, I'll make it through another five years,

Tony Romo

#11. I wanted a normal life, but normal was as foreign to me as a super bowl ring was to Tony Romo.

Angela McPherson

#12. I'm ready to rock and roll.

Tony Romo

#13. Everyone runs their own race.

Tony Romo

#14. I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.

Tony Romo

#15. The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.

Tony Romo

#16. You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.

Tony Romo

#17. I think people just like rooting. If they like you, they're going to want to root for you and you're one of theirs. And if they don't like you? It doesn't matter.

Tony Romo

#18. I used to send Tony Romo texts throughout the season just to encourage him, just to wish him luck and just to tell him to get on his offensive line. I hated watching this young man get sacked as much as he did, especially when it came down to big games.

Emmitt Smith

#19. A lot of the issues of the Dallas Cowboys yesterday having pressure on Tony Romo, came from the outside pressure.

Emmitt Smith

#20. Well, we can't all be Terry Bradshaw.

Tony Romo

#21. There's nothing about Tony Romo that deserves to be associated with America's Team.

Stephen A. Smith

#22. I am nervous about this game. The Cowboys' best player, quarterback Tony Romo, is not going to play because he has a broken finger. The Cowboys ought to be able to win without Tony Romo because the St. Louis Rams are terrible, but I am still nervous.

Craig Lancaster

#23. I think as a player there's a sense of urgency every single year that this is the year we're going to have success and do the things we're excited about.

Tony Romo

#24. I think some guys have the ability to learn from themselves and get better. Those are the guys that last a long time and continue to improve in this league and in sports in general.

Tony Romo

#25. You're always playing the game to reach the ultimate goal.

Tony Romo

#26. The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.

Tony Romo

#27. Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview
you'll be interviewing the next guy.

Tony Romo

#28. I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.

Tony Romo

#29. If you get a great wife who understands the demands of someone in athletics, I think that's important.

Tony Romo

#30. When you're younger, it's about, 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's, 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.

Tony Romo

#31. I think you use the negative things that happen from the year before - and from other years, too - to spur you to do the things you need to do to take the next step.

Tony Romo

#32. We're continuing to evolve into what we think we can do, and you know that takes a little bit of times sometimes to figure out what you're really good at and what you can hang her hat on per se, and I think we're learning that each week that goes by.

Tony Romo

#33. It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.

Tony Romo

#34. I don't think about it, 'Wow! I'm the quarterback of the Dallas Cowboys.' For me, this is my job. This is what I've been preparing to do. And I really want to win badly.

Tony Romo

#35. You just work at it. You just keep grinding away, keep trying to get better, and if you got the ability, one day you have a chance.

Tony Romo