Ezekiel Elliott Quotes

Rushing the ball is all about ball control. If you run the ball, you control the clock. If you control the clock, you usually control the game.

Anytime you've got a good running back, it will help your passing game.

On one-on-one, I'm either trying to get the first down or trying to score.

Football, if we bring it down very simply, it's when you have the ball and when you don't.

I don't know much about football but everyone seems to say that it is all about possession.

Football is a game of skill, we kicked them a bit and they kicked us a bit.

Football is a simple game based on the giving and taking of passes, of controlling the ball and of making yourself available to receive a pass. It is terribly simple.

Anytime we can get the running game going it is a plus for me and it makes my job a lot easier.

First thing, and it's really one of my favorite things, is the protection part. Who everybody is blocking and where the pressure is coming from. Because if we can't get the ball off, it doesn't matter what you're doing out here.

In football you have to look forward.

Football is open; it is not only keeping possession of the ball and making more passes.

Both sides of the game, defensively and offensively, are important.

If you have a defensive concept, you're going to play defense. If you don't have a defensive concept, and you have an offensive concept, then you're going to play offense.

You've got one football and a lot of times, defenses dictate where the ball goes.

I have to open the game from my position. It's really important to play with the ball.

First and foremost my obligation is on the defensive side. But obviously there are times when I need to go and attack, too.

I like it when the team is in control of the match. I like very much the ball possession; I like to play in the other half.

People watch the points, they watch the highlights. But the defense I think helps the offense.

I've always been a player on the move. It's not because I like running. I like getting the ball.

Everyone wants to score goals - that's the point of football - but you have to look at the whole situation in detail.

The game changes when you play good defense and don't come up with the ball.

Quarterbacks will make plays; they always do. But I think the team that runs the ball the best will win.

Every week you go in and hope that you have production in the passing game and also in the running game.

You can never advance the ball on defense.

God bless those runners because they get you the first down, give you ball control and keep your defense off the field. But if you want to ring the cash register, you have to pass.