Joe Flacco Quotes

Early in my career, if I didn't get the ball, or if something would happen, or the media would say something, I'd take it personally.

When you're in a rut, you have to question everything except your ability to get out of it.

You learn as a player not to listen to the criticism. Many of the people who put out that criticism might not be as accomplished, might not understand the game as well from the inside-out.

There are always going to be questions - I know that. I'll let my playing answer my questions.

You question yourself all the time as a footballer. You have to focus on the positives.

Guys like Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, Kevin Garnett, they'll take bad criticism in a good way.

It's murder to doubt yourself in life. It took until I was 45 to get to that point. As hard as it is in your work, it's harder in your life. But it can be done.

Oh, I would love to be a motivational speaker. I have pulled myself out of a million potholes, and I can see the potholes ahead of me. That doesn't mean that I could always do that so perfectly for my own life. I totally fall in potholes.

It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning; people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

I've always been strong-minded, but I wonder.

When I'm on my own, I can be negative. I need my friends and family around to help pick me up if I've had a bad qualifying session. I think insecurity plagues a lot of sportspeople.

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent.

There were some jobs I wanted that weren't necessarily right for me at the time. The ones I thought I'd never get, I got. As long as I am doing the best work I can possibly do at any given time, I can't do any better than that.

The only one who can beat me is me.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

In this crazy, crazy world of figure skating, it is easy to focus on a name or a target. But when you are going after someone, it really only holds you back from what you are capable of yourself.

It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.

Unless I try, I'm never really going to be at ease with myself.

What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

When I am wrong, I will learn the lesson and move on to face other challenges. For me, that's what creating your own life is. Doing your best work while being your best self.

No one has a resume that they are 100% comfortable with, nor does anyone have a life that they are 100% comfortable with.

You know, once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself.

If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.