Josh McDaniels Quotes

The way I operate as a football player and the product that I put on the field in relation to the business that I conduct, I want it to be as tough as possible in practice so when I get into the games I've been there before.

You can teach all the other stuff, you know. You can teach shooting the ball, you can teach having a good touch... passing and whatnot, but when you get out there on the field, it's just a mindset you need to go into the game with.

My mental approach is totally different. My coach predicated everything on defense. He always talked about defense, defense, defense. I took it to heart that if you play defense, you can take the heart from an offensive player.

I feel like, at any given time, if I'm not playing my best football, if I'm not taking coaching points, if I'm not doing things right out there on the field, I feel I can be covered by anyone.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

I think all you can do is prepare properly for every game but you also have to be realistic. Be realistic about what you are as a team.

I think one thing I had going for me that a lot of rookies didn't is that we played 15, 16 games every year in college.

I want to improve every part of my game.

It is good to play strong teams.

Being solid in your own zone, being a good faceoff guy, those are things that are all important as you go deep in the playoffs.

It's not easy to be a footballer.

Being the full-time quarterback, there is a big responsibility to stay healthy for your team.

You don't want your opponent to score. You don't want your guy to score and once you get better at it, you get used to it, it becomes a mindset. You just try to do it every game.

For my whole career, I concentrated on that cycle of games from August to May and being mentally and physically ready.

That's the whole part of playing football and having training camp. Coming in and recognizing how players play.

You take it one game at a time because it's the most important game of the season.

For me to be a better player, I need to play more games, and having a gaffer I know has great trust in me gives me the confidence I need to help me improve my game.

In college, practice is draggin'. Coach goes, 'Oh, hey, go on over there and start a fight with one of the linebackers.' Okay. So I'll go and start a fight with one of the linebackers... It's just an attitude that really developed in me, and now we just amplify it times 100 and make sure everybody understands what I do and what I'm about.

When we are with the national team we are playing against much better players.

From playing with the guys that I played with, Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce, I learned a lot about the game. I learned how to finish games.

By the time you get to the conference finals, you can't hide. It's not like your opponent is going to be experienced on how to try to exploit you. You have to have the right kind of habits and hopefully have been tested enough in those habits... to be able to still get to your identity.

We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.

I always want to play. It is important to gain match rhythm.

Game-time is the most important thing for me. When you're playing week in, week out you have the confidence to show what you're capable of.

You train hard. But when you don't play every week the pressure is even more when you are called up. It's not difficult for me though.