Brian Urlacher Quotes

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

LeBron is the best player in our league, but some people have a hard time playing with him.

One of the things about football is, it's a relationship business.

There's no one I'd rather have as my quarterback. I love Jared Goff.

I have all the respect in the world for the Patriots, and I respect Tom Brady tremendously.

It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.

Sam Bradford was one of the most humble and grounded players I've ever been around; he got it. But I even told him, what makes you think those fans in the stands are wearing No.14 for you? Who says it's not an old Josh Heupel jersey?

This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.

In football, in any sport, communication is really key. So if you want to be a great teammate, a great team and a great player, then communication is very important.

Anytime you get to go out and see the fellas and play with them and talk with them and be in the huddle and look at guys and participate in drills - I mean, that's what you play the game for, ultimately.

Zinedine Zidane knows how to deal with me.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

You talk all the time about being connected, being a unit, believing in each other. But if you have unnamed sources, people out there cutting you down, and then you find out it's the person calling the plays - that would be really hard to deal with, to look at him the same way.

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.

In football, it's the ultimate team sport. You have to have good people around you as a quarterback for things to happen.

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.

I realize that as the quarterback, you have to assume some sort of leadership role because you have to talk in the huddle on every play, and you're essentially giving out orders to the team. But in my mind, I have to prove myself on the field before I can start asserting a leadership role.

You need to be able to work with people. Especially in football, it is not a QB's game... even though the media likes to make it into that - it takes the whole team.

At first, I didn't know what to expect but I do say that I love our defensive coordinator, Tim Lewis.

Team sports are very important for shaping personalities. It's important that kids understand the mentality behind playing team sports and playing for one another and playing with friends.

In any team sport, the best teams have consistency and chemistry.

Every team has to have a quarterback. You can't have two quarterbacks.

You don't know how many times I was in the huddle, asking my teammates to help me call a play.

Sports are such a great teacher. I think of everything they've taught me: camaraderie, humility, how to resolve differences.

I was lucky enough to play with great platers Cameron Smith, Billy Slater, Darren Lockyer and that's where I learned about leadership.