Donovan McNabb Quotes

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.

Making it to the NFL is a huge accomplishment. Making it in the NFL is a huge accomplishment, but I haven't done that yet. No matter how many games we've played, it's still hard to figure out when you've made it in the NFL.

I can say confidently that I don't think Austin Corbett is going to play tackle in the NFL.

To me, it's always bumpy, and to me, that's the joy of it. That's this game. That's how hard it is in the NFL. Really, what you did last year or 2010, as we know, doesn't factor.

I think I could take a job as an NFL scout.

I don't think Joey Harrington is good enough to be a starting quarterback in the NFL.

I'm always hesitant to make any serious moves because you never know how the N.F.L. will treat you, you know?

As an NFL player, and as a veteran in this game, no one cares what you're doing during the offseason. They only care about what you do on the football field.

Playing for Chelsea I have to be more ruthless than in the German team, where I have managed to earn myself a different status over the years.

There is a specific mentality that is put into the young players at Barcelona, and from nine or 10 years old, you have to make good seasons because, if not, you are out.

When guys talk about going to the league in college, they're thinking about flash and bling. But my first taste of the NFL was a relatively small non-guaranteed contract, a crappy room at an extended stay hotel and a sense of panic every time my phone rang because it might be the cut guy.

As an NFL analyst, my job was to watch countless hours of game film and critique NFL coaches and that's what I've been doing the last 10 years. And there are coaches that I question in the NFL, and at other big collegiate institutions.

I was forced to leave my hometown, and Napoli sold me to Juventus.

I'm not overlooked by NFL teams. That's the only thing I really care about.

In the NFL, there's never really that moment where you're like, Hey, I made the team. Or: Hey, you made the practice squad. You just kind of show up the next day and go to work. Nobody really says anything. You just kind of go to work.

Either a player accepts competition or they say they absolutely need to play. For a player to have an open door, I have to have, at the same position, an element that is just as good or even better.

My brother told me when I came in the NFL, if they cut Peyton Manning, they're going to cut you someday too. That's always a realization for anybody in our livelihood.

Here's what I always tell people: It's a mentality that you have to have in the NFL. It isn't about if you have the athleticism. When they bring you in, you've already shown what you can do athletically.

It's the NFL. You have to earn it every single day. You're only as good as your last game.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

I am the MVP and I gotta worry about the trade talk.

I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback.

Tom Brady is good, real good...but he plays in same league as I do.

The Super Bowl is a realistic goal.

After I won the Heisman Trophy, it just was OK, I’m supposed to go to the NFL and so that’s what I did. I didn’t really have any expectations and I didn’t really understand how things worked.