I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
Joe Flacco
I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.
In order to make it in this league, period, you have to be able to tune out some things and believe in yourself and go play.
We tend to just think about how hard it is to never have thrown to a guy. That is true, every guy has their own way of doing things and you build a rapport with guys throughout the course of the year and throughout practice and all of that.
In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.
In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.
I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.
It always gets you going when you get hit for the first time. It reminds you that you play football.
There's always that training camp feeling that comes back to you when you're getting ready to go.
No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.
You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.
Getting in field-goal range isn't that tough.
I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.
I'm never going to question myself or question the guys around me. We're just going to look at each other and we're going to look in the mirror and I'm going to tell myself and everybody that we have to get better, I have to get better.
There are guys out there that have got to make a living on hating on somebody.
It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.
In this league, there's a lot of times when you're going to have guys open, and it's going to be all good and the fact that you're off a tick might not matter. But when it really matters, you're going to need to be right on it. And I think the more reps you get, the more likely chance you have to feel comfortable in those times of high stress.
People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.
I'm going to try to get my kid involved in golf and maybe try to get my kid to try to qualify for the PGA Tour. That's my dream.
I think as a play-caller, you have to just go out there, rely on your guys that you have that are out there, rely on the fact that they have ability. And as a quarterback, you have to go out there and just go through your reads.
I would like more people to think good things about me, but if they never do, they never do.
It doesn't feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.
That's part of being a leader, being the guy that people look to and making everybody around you better.
When you go out there and you try to change things around and avoid a guy or pick your spots to go at a guy, I think you're usually taking away a piece of your offense that you rely on a lot.
I do know that you'll definitely never see me sporting a mustache.
There is a lot of pressure on organizations and on players to win it all. If you don't, there is a lot of disappointment and a lot of fallout because of it.
I feel like, as long as you truly are a good player, then you can't go out and have a bad season.
What I choose to do reflects who I am.
The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.
I really like revenge movies.
I definitely have a chip on my shoulder after having transfered to Division I-AA.
We used to listen to a lot of AC/DC before games to get fired up. 'TNT,' 'Thunderstruck,' all that stuff. It really gets you pumped.
You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.
Nothing is every promised to us, man.
Listen, I want to win football games; whatever's going to help us win.
Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.
When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.
I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.
There are times where you have to be selfish.
There is definitely little things that motivate you every year.
I've thrown many picks in my life, man.
I could quarantine forever.
What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.
It's not like I'm a lineman and no matter what, the game is physical. There's weeks where I get hit a lot and weeks where I don't.
I'm a guy that does not like to throw interceptions.
When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.
Listen, I don't think there are any backups in this league that don't have aspirations to be a starting quarterback. It's just part of the business. It's part of being on a team and knowing your role.
It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.
This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.
We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.
