I try to keep my confidence on the charts, but I'm a confident guy as well. You've got to be that way. If you don't think that you're the best, then you won't perform that way.
I don't play too much into the color game, because I don't want to be the best African American quarterback, I want to be the best quarterback.
Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.
I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.
My job is to play quarterback, and I'm going to do that the best way I know how, because I owe that to my teammates regardless of who is out there on the field with me.
You have to pay attention to the moment and make it the best it can be for you. I've been trying to do that. It's really made a major difference for me. I'm a happier person.
One of the best Christmas presents I ever got was the globe that I now keep right beside my desk.
I'm just here to compete and do the best I can and let things play out and just be the best teammate I can be, regardless of the situation.
I'm a storyline. I'm the chosen one for negative stories and controversial things. If I worried about it all, I would go insane.
My job is to defeat the guy in front of me, do it until he quits, and then wait for them to send in the next guy.
Some people have this impression of me: 'Boy, he's always so serious on the field. Football. Football. Football.'
That's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.
My parents raised me to not ever look at race or color, so it doesn't have a big part in my self-identity.
There's something about football that's exciting. The defense is trying to shut you down and you're trying to blow people up.
There's nothing I'm doing to my body that a regular person is not doing to theirs outside of just running into somebody at full speed.
I don't care where we're going; I'm gonna wear a suit all day, every day.
With all the things I've been through, the No. 1 thing that I've learned is that we're supposed to help people through this world.
Concern yourself more with accepting responsibility than with assigning blame. Let the possibilities inspire you more than the obstacles discourage you.
The New England Patriots have always been a special organization and I've always watched from afar.
Many ALS patients end up fading away quietly and dying. For me, this was not OK. I did not want to fade away quietly.
I think all the bad blood started when Geffen released a greatest hits package of my solo stuff.
