Donovan McNabb Quotes

The key thing with any football player is, what can he do when he gets on the field.

I was a borderline guy in the NFL.

When I came to the NFL, I was just trying to make the team.

It should be an easy, seamless transition for me to the NFL, and I'm looking forward to it.

It's hard to win in the NFL. You have to maintain a very delicate balance putting together the right team to be able to win and have any amount of success.

The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.

Jim Harbaugh has done a great job of coaching in the NFL no matter how you put it.

For years, we have had many coaches in football, but there are no teachers anymore. And you see that in the play itself.

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I understand how hard every guy in this NFL works, especially at the position, especially at the quarterback position.

That's the biggest difference from college to NFL. Everybody's so talented at this level, the difference is knowing the game - knowing where to go with the ball in my position, knowing how to execute your job to the highest level. In college, you could just get by playing ball.

Pro Day was very important for me because that was really the only time that I had to prove that I could play at an NFL level and that was really through the physical drills they put me through which was running and throwing the ball. It turned out pretty well for me.

I'm absolutely enjoying the Premier League, as you can imagine. I knew it was going to be tough. It's the best league in the world and you are up against players who have been in it for years so they know it inside out.

I had an expectation going into the NFL, and then the experience that I had exceeded what I expected to see from people that played at that level. And so, it was a learning experience not only from a mental standpoint and a physical standpoint, but just a routine standpoint.

I think a player should be evaluated for what he does on the playing field.

Good instincts are vital to longevity in the NFL.

When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

Everyone has their own background and some managers are Premier League footballers, international footballers, some of them find themselves getting jobs.

Over the course of my career, I'm trying to win Super Bowls... I am an NFL football player now, and I'm going to try the best that I can to be the best one.

I think I would have held my own in the NFL.

I'm a football fan first and foremost, but I've been given an incredible opportunity to be a football coach in the National Football League.

I think I'm the best wide receiver in the NFL.

I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

It takes a lot of hard work to be successful in the NFL.

You have to be smart as a football player.