Philip Rivers Quotes

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

You can't just limit yourself to underneath routes and let the defense kind of sit on those things.

When you can get o-linemen guessing about what you're going to do, that means you're already winning before you start.

When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

Rex Ryan does a lot of the same kind of stuff that we do in terms of how they play in the secondary and what they do.

I could never understand why they did that to Barry Sanders in Detroit. I know that's one of the reasons why he retired, because they took him out on third down and let someone else catch the ball. I thought they must be out of their mind because Barry is such a threat.

We want to create a problem for the defense, a moment of indecision as they figure out how they want to play against whatever formation we may show. We get a slight edge this way. Also, we create the opportunity for a defense to make more mistakes.

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

When I'm watching any game, I watch the tight end.

We have what we call a dictator offense. We dictate to defenses by making them do what we want them to do. And we do it by creating formations.

In eighth grade, I was actually better in football. I played running back, wide receiver, and safety - just like Allen Iverson.

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

I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.

Plays are designed to attack certain coverages and schemes.

I love the no-huddle.

If you're going to run a lot of plays, you better score a lot of points.

I don't go into a game thinking I'm going to run more than I'm going to pass. So it just depends on what the defense is going to bring in the situation of the game and what happens that play.

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

It's good to be able to run and have a balanced offense. They've got to be worried about both things. They can't just focus on the run game or the passing game and have us locked down that way. So when you have balance, good things are going to happen on offense.

When I get in there, I'm not really worried about scoring. I'm just worried about playing as hard defense as I can play, making my opponent work, and then I know the offensive end will open up for me. I've been a scorer all my life, so that's what I try to pride myself on. It feels good.

We all understand football is entertainment. And people like high-scoring games. But you still have to play defense to win championships.

That's been my challenge. Go out there and guard the best player and get it done on both ends. It's been working out pretty good for me. Just got to keep that thing going.

What I want is to recover the ball as near to the other box as we can, and when we have the ball, play.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

There are a lot of good tight ends.