Knute Rockne Quotes

Football is such a great game, but football players are so dull.

We started playing the Baltimore Colts early, and I was still very impressed with Johnny Unitas, who just passed away recently. I thought he was one of the best quarterbacks at the time when I was very young, he was in his prime.

The bottom line is that it's the NFL, and there's going to be competition wherever you go. That's the way I look at it. I've had competition in high school. I've had competition in college, and that's part of the game. That's part of how you improve as a quarterback.

We're in a leadership position in sports. People look up to the National Football League.

I like to win, I like to compete and I like to sack the quarterback. I imagine there's a team out there looking for that.

My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

I was a quarterback in pee-wee football. I always wanted to be quarterback. They're the leaders, they make the calls. It didn't work out because I didn't have the arm. I also played wide receiver my senior year in high school.

I've been playing American football since I was six years old. I was a captain of my high school team, playing strong safety.

I probably should have had a little more tolerance with Jimmy Johnson. Seriously.

The quarterback position gets a lot of attention.

Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.

Bobby Petrino, I think he's an outstanding coach.

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

I don't need to hit people in order to play good football. I'm not a boxer after all.

If you say you're a football coach, especially with a dude, they're always all over you.

I love playing football, and I'm pretty aggressive on the field. I'm a different person on the football field.

Big Ben, he's a great quarterback.

In 10th grade, I started playing defense. Mainly because we already had a great tailback. Once I started playing it, it just started growing on me. I liked it a lot.

Coach Knapp is a tremendous quarterbacks coach.

I'm strictly a quarterback.

When you play quarterback in the NFL, you're going to get scrutinized.

Teams always have natural leaders on the pitch and natural leaders in footballing terms.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

Jerry Ford is so dumb he can't walk and chew gum at the same time.... He's a nice fellow, but he spent too much time playing football without a helmet.

You practice Monday through Friday in college, or Monday through Saturday in the pro's - and then you just go out and knock somebody's head off.