Brian Urlacher Quotes

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

To win those big games you're going to have to complete some third-down passes, you're going to have to be able to get some explosive games in the passing game.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

Go back through football, and you will see that the team with the best defense wins.

Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck.

Like I always say, it's not how many great plays you make; it's how few bad ones you make. I know fans, and even some losing coaches, are enamored with long pass completions or the great run plays, but that doesn't offset the interception or the fumble.

The game of football, especially in the NFL, is all about situations, and coming out on the big end of that stick.

The heartbeat of a football team is the quarterback position and I think everyone who has any intelligence about the game understands you must have consistency at that position to be a championship team.

If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've gotta know where your guys are. It's not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win 'em.

As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.

If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play.

It's hard to win with rookie quarterbacks, as I know.

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.

There is not some secret formula, it comes down to completing passes, being efficient on first and second down and making plays when the ball is in your hands.

You will never run more than the ball. The players that don't lose the ball are the most important in the team, and good players decide the game.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

That's what we're here for as quarterbacks is to help our team win, lead the offense down the field and put points on the board.

The ultimate factor in judging quarterbacks is winning games.

It is always good and important that the strikers score.

As we play, I just kind of make the best decision and try to move the chains.

You look at Matt LaFleur and where he's been. It seems like successful quarterback play follows him.

Anytime you give up two special-teams touchdowns, I can't imagine the numbers are too good in regards to winning that game.

Defense is so important for helping your team win games and for the game in general.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

What Barcelona almost always do is play a good game, but we don't always win.