Lamar Jackson Quotes

You would not want me on your football team.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

I tried the broadcasting thing, the coaching thing, but I'll never replace the competitive feeling of being out on the field when we were players.

I don't think I would have made it as a cricketer.

I'm used to performing under pressure, but that's playing football.

I don't think there's a position I couldn't play on this field.

I am footballer, not a public relations person.

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

All I can do is play football, put it on film.

I want to go out and win football games, and I want the ball to be put in my hands.

It's always good for a player to be on the pitch.

I feel like I am the best defensive player in the league.

Now Rubio, I like the way he plays. He's a very skilled player.

I always want to show them I can play football.

I believe the NFL is a land of opportunity. As soon as you figure out you can find your little niche, you can find your role on an offense, in my position at receiver, I feel like you can develop an identity and go from there.

I was born to play baseball.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

For reasons that baffle me still, my high school sports coaches put me in the first division of the rugby, cricket, and soccer teams.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

I'm definitely not a football player, but I can play one for a season.

I'm more akin to football than I think anything else because that's what I played in high school.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

The truth of basketball is done in competition and fundamentals and team, but there's a lot of other junk that goes around the game.

I came from Long Island, so I had a lot of experience at the stick. I played in junior high school, then I played in high school. The technical aspect of the game was my forte. I had all that experience, then I had strength and I was in good condition.

I'd far rather talk about players. They are the people who make things happen.