Ryan Fitzpatrick Quotes

Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.

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

I'm just trying to be the best quarterback possible. So as long as I'm playing well and improving every day, I will just continue this.

I think, as quarterback and as a football player, you always want to get better.

There's not much simplifying. You gotta know what you gotta know. That's how the quarterback position is, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

All my skill sets have grown; my experience in the Octagon has grown. I honestly just think I'm getting better with every fight.

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.

Football is all about self-confidence.

In football, it's not enough just to be amazing, but you also have to have a clear head. If you're not calm, it becomes very difficult.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

I feel like I'm making the right plays and right reads each and every night, so if I keep doing that the assists are going to come.

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

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

My thing is to execute the given play, execute the game plan to the best of my ability. If the option is for me to make a play when I have to, I will. Or I'll put myself in the best situation to do so.

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

My height doesn't define my skill set. To be a great quarterback, you have to have great leadership, great attention to detail and a relentless competitive nature - and I try to bring that on a daily basis.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

As you progress high school, college into the league, you can tell the difference between quarterbacks with their timing and the way the ball comes out of their hand.

I don't think I'm conscious of most of the things I've drawn from football, because they're so ingrained in me now... understanding that the discipline and the routine and the regimentation to be successful.

If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.'

I believe my strengths are my pace and reading of the game.

I try all the time to improve in the game, training all the time, and to help my team with assists or goals.

I just concentrate on my performance and the football.

All I want to do is improve as a player.

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.