Alex Smith Quotes

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

The quarterback is an extension of the coach and has a certain type of swagger mentality, on and off the field.

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

It starts with me. I have to get the team in the right play and throw the ball where it's supposed to go.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I want the ball in my hands, throwing the ball, making decisions.

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

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

You can lead a team in a lot of different ways. It can be talking to somebody who is down or, during the course of a game, looking to penetrate and then dropping the ball off to someone else for an easy bucket.

I have three tools at my disposal - my whistle, my body language and my talk. It is a question of how I marry them up to try to get the players around to my way of thinking.

I don't miss being in the dugout - I'll make that clear.

If there's one thing I can't stand, it's a quarterback who thinks playing quarterback is just about passing.

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

The positions I played in football, being a quarterback and a defensive back, you had to kind of have a little independent thinking.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

My job as a coach is to make good decisions. It's not to go out there and block or tackle.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Bad ballplayers make good managers.

Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

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

It's football, you work with humans and humans make mistakes. We will do everything in our power to prepare the players so they know to make the right decision at the right times.

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.

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

A quarterback wants to come across in the interview process as confident, as having a vast understanding and knowledge of defenses, as being capable of leading a group of men. That's what you've got to convey to the teams.

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