Steve Rushin Quotes

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.

I enjoyed the NFL. I respected the players. It was a great opportunity to learn a lot of things, but the challenges were a little different, and it didn't seem that you could control your own destiny, especially in terms of how you could bring players to the team.

Football is what I know, it is what I love, it is what I have worked my whole career at, and I thrive on every element that goes into building a winning football team.

My job is to go out there and play football. My job is to go out there and win football games.

Sometimes I miss coaching, but often things are not how they appear in football.

I look at the NFL and see how the transition has gone at quarterback. I might be coming along at a good time. For me personally, this is about doing the same thing I've been doing at USF - just smile, have fun, enjoy the experience, keep a positive attitude and encourage my teammates. I like to feed off the people around me.

Football always changes. There are always new players coming in at your club or young players coming through with your club or England. You have to be ready, given 100%, improve, and get better.

That's how it works, it's football. They need you or they don't.

I think every manager is the same. Three days before the Premier League starts, every manager is selfish that way. They want the players fit and ready.

What a humbling experience, being an NFL quarterback.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

Arsenal is a team that needs good footballers and leaders on the field.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

I believe the NFL is a land of opportunity. As soon as you figure out you can find your little niche, you can find your role on an offense, in my position at receiver, I feel like you can develop an identity and go from there.

There are times when I'm watching an NFL quarterback struggling to get through the game, and I get bitter to some extent.

There are similarities between business and sport, in the pressures involved and in the fitness aspect too.

I also wanted to play with Peyton Manning because I thought he could teach me a lot, and he did.

You know, a football coach is nothing more than a teacher. You teach them the same subject, and you have a group of new guys every year.

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

To me, discipline in football occurs on the field, not off it.

You would not want me on your football team.

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.

Coaching is easy. Winning is the hard part.

Everyone knows the game is about the players.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.