Jason Witten Quotes

That's the most important thing in football: you need to take chances when you get them.

There are a lot of running backs who see the first level, the D-linemen, and they can't really see the second level.

I think one thing as far as my learning curve and what I'm learning - there is a time to take a sack, and then there is also a time to try to find a way to maybe throw the ball at a receiver's feet.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

Understanding the intentions of a play is so key because you can block a guy into the running back if you don't know how the play is supposed to work or where the back is going to come out.

I don't really have foresight as an actor as far as career trajectory - I just stick to no-brainer situations.

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

Nobody I ever broke bread with, and I see players all the time, talked about using their head running the football.

I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.

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.

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

We had all this kind of freedom and 'get out of your head' kind of stuff and at the same time, we were trying to establish ourselves in the business. These two things are really difficult to bring together.

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.

I've tried to get cute - and I don't mind saying tried to be cute - at the quarterback spot.

On crosses, sometimes I make my move one or two seconds before the ball is coming because I'm trying to guess that the ball is coming there. It's intuition. So I run. Sometimes the ball comes...sometimes not. But that intuition is working.

We will never play for a draw, as it doesn't make sense. Come on, you make a 0-0 plan, you get one goal after five minutes, and it's finished. The players look and say, 'Now what?'

When I do defensive work well it always helps my offensive game.

I turned goalkeeper. My father had been one and we had a goal in the back garden. He'd taught me a bit about it so I thought I'd give it a go. I didn't really know whether it was going to be a good choice or a bad one but I joined a small local team as a keeper and it turned out to be a really good decision.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

Positional play is good for training, but in games, to win matches, you need someone who can go past defenders and take chances.

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.

There weren't many plays for me. A lot of my stats came off broken plays, or when I didn't allow the options to play out and just took the shot.

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

I think I'd be a good pass-catching fullback.

What always drove me was my curiosity. That's what made me join Booking and not be afraid to leave a very successful job and then go into a startup.