Zach Ertz Quotes

I have MMA strengths, but I need to build on my weaknesses.

I want to improve as a football player, but even more importantly, I really want to improve as a person.

In football, you are going to have highs and lows, and you have to recognize when you have new opportunities and walk in those.

Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.

As a professional athlete, I believe that I need to explore my opportunities to the maximum, in order to excel and continue to play the best football I can.

I probably got more out of sports in high school than I did out of classes.

I try to take the mental aspects of every sport that I've ever played and use it toward kicking, how to react in certain situations.

There's a lot I need to improve on. YAC, which I'm last in. Being a better leader. Not getting frustrated when things aren't going my way.

I think you have to have a bit of an anger-management issue, to be honest with you. Usually, slot guys are a lot smaller and quicker, but at the same time, you have to go in there and block linebackers and safeties, and so you have to be aggressive.

The Championship allows you to grow as a player. It is very competitive.

The thing about kicking is, it's not as competitive as other positions, but I feel like I am a competitor.

It's important to improve all aspects of my game so when the situation comes along, I will be ready.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.

Competition in football means someone will improve.

There are always things we can improve on, but that is normal in football.

Preparation goes on even when you are out of the team, as you can do it anywhere.

As an athlete, it's very important to have an open mind and to be willing to learn.

If they need me to have 25 carries and eight catches a game, whatever they need me to do, I'm ready to go. Or if they need me to have eight carries and six catches but play the whole game and pass protect and help shifts on the D-ends, I'm ready to go.

I don't think, as a player, I have a weakness on the field. I've done a great job of becoming good at everything, so I think that's what separates me.

Obviously, that's the thing any athlete wants to be able to do, to take weaknesses and turn them into strengths.

If you can keep getting better, we can set ourselves better standards every game.

I've been working on all my aspects of my game.

I would not be in the NFL, 100 percent, if it wasn't for basketball. I probably wouldn't be where I am without golf and baseball. Golf, for the mental side of the game, being able to focus on the now and take one shot at a time.

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

As a footballer, you always want to get better personally. And if you get better personally, you make the team better.