Quarterback Leadership Quotes

I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.

Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions.

I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship.

Are there things you can do with the rest of your personnel or are things you can do schematically to help a quarterback? I think so. But at the end of the day, that quarterback still has to be a driving force of your team, especially if you want to be a consistent winner over time.

I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.

Peyton Manning is doing things that I think no other quarterback in the history of the league has done at the line of scrimmage... I just think they are a team right now that's got a real chance to run the table.

As a quarterback, you try to manage the game. It's not just throwing the ball. You have to manage the running game and getting out of bad situations and there are a lot of things to it. That's what I'm trying to do.

I'm going to listen to John Elway. He knows what he's talking about.

The team only goes as far as their quarterback takes them.

That's the thing: To be successful in the NFL, you have to start by having a quality coach and a quarterback that can kind of lead the team. If you have the trust of the quarterback, then you can build everywhere else.

When you are a free agent like I was, it definitely makes a big difference when you know there's stability at the quarterback position.

The test of a quarterback is where his team finishes.

My quarterbacks have to be a member of my family, and that has nothing to do with football. Trust is everything. We have to connect on a deep level in order to really be able to build something together.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

My favorite quarterback is Donovan McNabb. I think he's a complete quarterback. I love the way he can scramble and throw on the run. He can do it all. He can control a game.

I think leadership is most effective when it's your own personality. But I feel like it's a natural progression as a quarterback, as well.

I think it's great just to be around great quarterbacks who have played in this league for a long time because everybody wants to.

With the quarterback position, because you're touching the ball every single snap, you want to make a play and you just have to guard against that. It's about making the plays that come to you, not necessarily chasing after plays.

It's always a lot more fun as a quarterback if you can do things you don't normally get to do. So if I can catch a pass and make a play for the team, that's what I'm willing to do.

I don't like celebrity quarterbacks. We don't need those. We need battlefield commanders.

I handled myself as a quarterback in the manner I thought necessary.

The only model to me that correlates with big success in the NFL is having a Hall of Fame franchise quarterback.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.