Brian Urlacher Quotes

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

I miss the preparation for game week and all the things. I miss the draft and getting prepared for that. I grew up in this business, that's all I've ever known.

We work on our set pieces for every opponent. It's a moment of the game that requires a lot of hard work, defensive and offensively. We try to invest our time in set pieces.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you're playing to the defense's scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.

In 10th grade, I started playing defense. Mainly because we already had a great tailback. Once I started playing it, it just started growing on me. I liked it a lot.

In New England, I learned so much about football. I always thought I was a smart player, even though I never thought about anything but the six inches in front of my face. In New England, I was forced to learn so many schematic concepts.

Football is a game you cannot play without making mistakes.

Most of my football education was under Hope Powell, and were some of her training sessions boring? Yes. But were they necessary? Yes. We fully understood what we needed to do as a defensive unit.

I feel like I have been a quick study in terms of picking up the different offensive schemes I have been exposed to. I think I offer a dependability and dedication that is very important to being successful.

I enjoyed practices at college. That is where you really get down and dirty and really get some development and see what you have.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

I try not to pay too much attention to the surroundings when you've got plays to worry about. It doesn't really matter. All we need is the grass and a couple of lines. We'll make it work and execute no matter what. At the end of the day, that's football.

I just learn from other people's mistakes.

Football's extremely important to me. iIt's my passion.

Football is a game. And sometimes I think about it way too much over situations that could be, you know, deadly.

It's a difficult thing in this league to match up, to line up and play one-on-one football.

It's not easy to score three goals in 70 minutes.

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

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

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.

Sometimes you can say it is boring being in goal, but what is important is I am in communication with the defence.

If your offensive and defensive lines are speaking and people are listening, you've got a very good chance of success.

Football is all about repetition. The trick for a coach is to be innovative when you ask for it.

In football, we tried each week to come up with the best game plan for every opponent. Some were tougher than others.

When I was in Germany I never played like this, so defensive - almost a left-back, but that is good for me because defensive work was something I missed in Germany.