Alex Smith Quotes

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.

Jay Cutler, he's a fine quarterback, but I think at times he gets a little nicked up.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

Every team has a play style, in my opinion. The video speaks for itself; that's what we always pay attention to.

There's three parts to football: offense, defense, and special teams. You'd no more ignore special teams than you would offense or defense.

If you're a quarterback and you keep throwing interceptions, you change quarterbacks.

You take your shots when you have them, and I threw a lot of touchdowns, but I'm always going to take care of the football in the red zone.

Ultimately, the yards really don't matter. So you have to score enough points, and I have been fortunate in my career to have been around some really good play callers, starting with Gary Kubiak and then going with Kyle Shanahan and Sean McVay, and that was always at the forefront of our minds: How can we create explosive plays?

We're trying to win football games, and whoever we feel like gives us the best chance is who's going to play behind center.

Every single match, win, lose or draw, there's something that we can improve on, and it's about us addressing that straight after the match.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

When you're a quarterback in this league, you're going to be talked about and it's going to be on a weekly basis.

It's really hard to go on a 10-, 12-play drive against a really good defense and put the ball in the end zone.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

I played 51 percent of the snaps outside, though. But you can go ahead and call me a slot as well.

I'm strictly a quarterback.

I definitely wanted to be playing the quarterback position.

Whatever the coaches want to call and are comfortable with me me running, I'm always down.

Not scoring in the red zone and turning it over, man, that gets you beat.

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.

I think Brian Hoyer is a good quarterback.

Getting to the halfbacks is a big part of any game.

A lot of different things go into calling the run game - especially at the line of scrimmage.

Quarterbacks will make plays; they always do. But I think the team that runs the ball the best will win.