Deshaun Watson Quotes

The better quarterbacks are real consistent. Rookie quarterbacks are not.

With any player, especially at quarterback, I don't care if you're talking Tom Brady or Peyton Manning or Drew Brees: you want to make sure to continue to hammer down the fundamentals, and it all starts with your feet. Everything starts with footwork.

I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.

I'm good at extending plays and finding throwing lanes.

That's what you kind of see with Matthew Stafford. He makes some incredible plays, even with his arm in different positions. But the consistency's not there that you need at the position to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and I think that's where cleaning up the technique will help.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

Quarterback - it's a boring, monotonous position that revolves around consistency.

I'm a guy that does not like to throw interceptions.

You see Tom Brady, you see Alex Smith, and you see all those guys in the pocket and how quick they are with their footwork and how they get the ball out fast. I have to get like that.

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

I would start with the most important thing a quarterback has to be: poised. If you panic in that pocket, you are no good. I don't care what else is there; you have to be poised.

Carson Wentz, when you watch him on tape, No. 1, I just like a big guy that has athleticism.

If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've gotta know where your guys are. It's not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win 'em.

In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

Playing quarterback you have to have quick reactions. You've got to be able to know pretty much everything that's going on on the field, lateral quickness, lateral movements in the pocket.

Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.

I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

You can always get better throwing the football.

I don't want to get good at throwing off schedule because I don't want to be off schedule. I want to have my protections to be solid, I want to be in the right play, and I want to get the ball out of my hands as quick as possible.

I feel like, even if a guy is covered, I can put the ball where it needs to be so we can have a successful play.

Aaron Rodgers - I love the way he scrambles and how he plays the game - he always makes great decisions with the ball.

A guy like Drew Brees is a guy that knows how to undress a defense. Most of the time he knows where he's gonna go before he even gets the ball. So he's ready to deliver that ball almost as soon as it comes to his hands.

As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.

You have to be able to hit the deep balls.