Sid Gillman Quotes

If I have my feet under me, I'm a much better passer.

More than anything I prefer the ball on the floor. I think I play my best football on the floor. There is a delicacy to this big giant.

I wanted to be a quarterback. I used to like Johnny Unitas, the old quarterback for the Colts.

Footwork is the biggest element to any quarterback game because if it's off, it will mess with your mechanics.

I'm a player who likes to get on the ball and use it.

In Germany, my focus was mainly on dribbling.

I'm a natural pocket passer.

I've got to have two hands on the ball when I'm leaving the pocket, when I'm moving in the pocket.

In the pocket, I usually keep two hands on the ball.

I'm never going to be one of these players who dribbles past three and bends it into the top corner from 25 yards. That's not me.

I think I always wanted to be quarterback so I could call the play.

The game was different then, when I used to play. The ball ran more than the players and to some extent there was greater technical skill.

As long as I can remember, I've always kicked a ball.

That's what you kind of see with Matthew Stafford. He makes some incredible plays, even with his arm in different positions. But the consistency's not there that you need at the position to be one of the top quarterbacks in the league, and I think that's where cleaning up the technique will help.

I work on my speed and strength every day, and I do a lot of work on my first five yards. For a footballer, that's really important.

Once I got into the league, I liked to watch LaDainian Tomlinson. He was nice, man. Quick, strong, great eyes, able to catch the ball.

If I scramble, I might get 5, 10, 15, 20 yards, but I'm not that fast. I always want to get it to the guys that can make plays.

I like my kind of innate and natural ability in the pocket, and ability of anticipation, and all that stuff that's important when it comes to playing quarterback.

The thing in basketball is you always want to be free. I don't want to be hugged up to my guy. When we're body to body, I want to control you.

If you give Brett Favre time to throw the ball and single coverage, you're making the offense that much better.

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!

Playing quarterback is hard enough.

All I really think about is, 'Don't try to kick the ball too hard,' because a lot of times when I missed kicks, it was because I tried to kill it. I just try to think of a smooth swing, being slow and under control, and making the kick.

In general, I like to always be in contact with the ball.

I'm not the fastest guy, but when it comes to agility, getting in and out of cuts and seeing something and going to get it, I do my best to make sure that's on point.