Alex Smith Quotes

I get the job with the 49ers, and I'm four years removed from my high school coaching days, and I'm going to be coaching Joe Montana, and I'm going, 'How do I approach this? How am I going to do this?'

With Lille, we could have gone to the South of France, and people wouldn't have recognised us. But at Chelsea, the players are at another level. Everything has changed - the language, the country - but it is up to me to adapt.

There is obviously going to be a transition. There is a transition with every quarterback going from college to the NFL. I'm excited for it.

I think I had a good rookie year, but at the end of the day, I want to be one of the best tight ends ever to play, and I'm going to set my standard for that and work toward that goal.

But you grow more knowledgeable during the time you play in the Premier League. Every new manager, new chapter, has been a learning curve.

I have no problem lining up running back, tight end, or fullback.

I've had a decent career, I've been a decent player but coaching is a whole different ball game. I can take the experience that I've got but there's so much more to it than that and I'd never take it for granted and just say I can jump into a new role and it will be easy and a breeze because I know it won't be like that.

As a rookie, I had changed positions. In college, I was a quarterback, and I had never played other positions.

I love to continue to evolve as a player, and sometimes the only places you can do that is when you're uncomfortable, and sometimes when you're at home for too long, it's not that.

You get fired. You get cut. That's just part of it, man. You don't worry about it, but what you do is you make sure that you left it better for the next guy.

I really actually started when I was 10 years old, but before that, I loved to play with Father because he played as an ex-player. I just enjoyed it, so I started at 10 years old with Father to be a proper football player.

I've learnt more in two years at Juventus than in my entire life.

I feel like when you're out there and getting reps up and getting a lot of time, then the game's starting to slow down a whole lot.

Of course I would have liked to have spent my whole life at Real Madrid, but if it cannot be, it cannot be, and you have to move on.

As you go through your career you learn what works for you and what doesn't and you pick things up with experience.

Coming to Chelsea was a big challenge for me.

I think I throw the ball down the field pretty well, but I think I'm really accurate and make good decisions.

Chelsea is a big club, a club that has given me the opportunity to play as a starter, to grow even more.

It took me a little bit of time in the Premier League. I came back from an ACL and got one goal in I think six months at Crystal Palace. It wasn't great but I got to grips with the Premier League, started to understand what it's about because it's very different to the lower leagues.

I'm a player coming into Manchester United, I've got to adapt like every other, no matter how old I am.

When you play quarterback in the NFL, you're going to get scrutinized.

I wasn't supposed to run as much as I did in the NFL. But it turned out that all that scrambling I had done in college became necessary in the NFL. It wasn't by design. It was because I was running for my life!

Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.

It's going to be awesome getting to learn from a guy like Alex Smith, who's had a ton of success in the league.

In the first season, I didn't contribute enough, but I really believe you need a year to succeed in the Premier League; it's the fastest league in the world.