Philip Rivers Quotes

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.

I actually was the captain of the football team. I went to Catalina Foothills High School, and I played football all four years. I started on Varsity my sophomore year, and senior year I was captain.

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.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

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

I'm going to go out and try to be the best player I can be and help the Chicago Bears win.

This is a game, first and foremost. There was only one Vince Lombardi, and he died.

I love sports, and when I was playing soccer, I was always trying to be the leader on the team and the one who takes control.

I love sports. I was an athlete in high school, and my school was so small we didn't have a football team, so it's the one sport I didn't bother to learn the rules to because I never went to game.

I think as far as any kind of pressure on a football team or on an individual in professional sports really depends not only on that individual but the leadership they have on the team and the leadership they have on the coaching staff. A lot of times, they can divert some of those pressures off of the individual and off of the team.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

I had great football players. To be quite truthful, my great football players, the ones who wanted the ball at the end of the games, they weren't focused on money. They want to do something great. They want to go to Pro Bowls. They want to win Super Bowls. Those are the people that succeed in sports - or in business.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

The target is to win football matches.

I'm very happy to shoulder the responsibility for my football team.

I wasn't a cheerleader in high school, but I was the leader of my soccer team.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

When I was coaching, I wasn't worried about what I was making. I was worried about winning a championship.

I can't even count to five when I say my proper friends in football.

Since I was 15 or 16 years old, my grandfather was my high school football coach and my life's been ball. Dinners we're talking about ball and college we're talking about ball.

Everybody wants to be on the field and show what they're capable of and help their football team win games.

All the managers in the world are here to win games.

In football, the stronger team is the one which wins.

I was a competitor as a football player and I'm a competitor as a coach.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.