Alex Smith Quotes

Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

That's what my job is; just get the ball to my guys.

It's hard to be a leader right away, but playing quarterback, you have to.

Football is a collective sport, but goalkeeping is an individual sport.

You touch every other ball and, if you screw up, you only have one more person to back you up. You can't go hide in the corner.

I have unbelievable trust in my offensive line that they will get the job done. Not only them, but the running backs and as a quarterback, I have to do my job in getting the ball in the right people's hands and doing what I do best.

I know that it is a huge responsibility to be the captain, the No. 10, but I like it. I like the responsibility, the pressure, and I like playing football.

Your receivers have to catch it, not drop it.

How are you supposed to communicate on the pitch when you don't off it?

I play better when guys depend on me.

It takes all 11 on the field doing their job correctly to make it all happen.

There's a lot of pressure that comes with being a NFL quarterback wherever you're at, and I'm ready to tackle any situation that's in front of me.

I think communication is massive in football and in all sports in general.

Everybody's watching when you're the quarterback. The other players see how much you want it.

I understand what's expected of me. I understand the lineage for the running back position of the Dallas Cowboys.

When you are captain at the same time, that's when it gets difficult and when your own game starts to decay because you have other worries and pressures.

Playing football helped me a lot. Just reading the quarterback's eyes and reading receivers, figuring out what they want to do.

I have to put my team in a good situation.

I have a lot of empathy for quarterbacks.

When you're not playing, it is difficult to feel that you are the leader of the team.

People say I'm a natural leader, but I just go out there and do my job and do whatever it takes to win; that's what comes with being a leader, those are the sort of things I've done as I've tried to grow into a leader and I'm just going to continue to do them.

I'm just worried about being a good quarterback first, and being a great teammate.

I think a lot of the time, when things were going wrong, I would get blamed for things because I was the point guard.

Playing quarterback is hard enough.