Jerry Jones Quotes

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

I think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out there, rely on the fact that they have ability. And as a quarterback, you have to go out there and just go through your reads.

College football and particularly the quarterback position is a performance-based deal.

Football is about having the best offensive play possible. I always like to play offensive football, and nobody will convince me otherwise.

I look at athletes in all sports and try to picture what kind of football player they'd be, what position they'd play and so on.

It actually took me a year to learn how to play running back - to understand what they were doing defensively and then what our guys were doing every single play.

I've never played, on the field, any other position besides quarterback. Never been on a special team. Never been on defense.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

That's the job of a quarterback, to go out there and be confident with the communication of the play, in the huddle and with my play.

I think my game isn't very flashy, but the test of time for the position of quarterback is how fast can you get the ball out of your hands to the right guy? And I think I do that better than everyone else.

Some of the most innovative things in football I see at high school games. It's not the play - it's when you run it. The right time.

Sometimes, they do a great job covering everyone downfield, so you just have to checkdown and hit a tight end to convert. That's just how we play ball.

I don't want to just be the guy to dump the ball off to or the guy who can do the checkdowns.

I pride myself on knowing the defense.

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

I have to make sure that we're in the right plays and I can get the ball out quickly and get into our playmakers' hands.

We prided ourselves at Oregon, where teams said they were going to try to beat us down and try to manhandle us, and maybe in the first quarter they were running with us, but it was just, 'Let's see how they are come the fourth quarter when they're tired, and they've had 70 to 80 plays coming at them non-stop.'

The most important thing is to help the team to come in front of the goal with one-two passes, I drop down, or I give them space, because for defenders, it's always difficult to have a false nine because they don't have a direct player against them, so they don't know exactly what to do.

It's all about controlling the huddle one play at a time and knowing my assignment, knowing my progression and where I've got to go with the ball.

I love everything about being a quarterback. The ball is in your hand at every play. You can have a huge impact on the game. It is a challenge.

I'm going to play the quarterback position the way coaches install the plays; I'm going to go through the reads just like they install it.

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.

I like to play against strikers and think that, from my size alone, I'm more of a central defender.

It's on the pitch you have to do your talking, and it is the coach who makes the decisions, so the best I can do is show my best form.

You have to approach it the same way with any quarterback. You're going to try to do the best for your guy.