Joe Flacco Quotes

I feel like I am a good player.

I played with a lot of great players before. They're all the same. They take a lot of responsibility for their own play, put a lot of pressure on themselves to perform and to play well.

If I play a bad game, I know I played a bad game. If I play a good game, I know I played a good game. So I don't need anyone to tell me if I did good or bad - because I know it.

I played football because I loved the game - but I didn't enjoy the focus on not making mistakes and the culture being essentially one of blame and a little fear.

I don't know if every player in the Premier League feels hurt when they lose a game. The right sort is very important. I was naive in thinking that everyone was like me.

As soon as you have an average game, everyone is quick to criticise and say, 'You suck; you shouldn't be playing rugby.'

I might not be a great athlete, but I think I'm a real good football player.

I don't know that I'd agree I was our best player.

I think my game measures up pretty well to myself.

I obviously think I should always be picked. Every player thinks he's good enough to be playing every week.

I was not a very good football player. My coach hated me - I don't know why, I guess it's probably because I wasn't very talented.

I never really thought of myself as a captain. I always thought of myself as a guy trying to win games, a guy who could look back and have no regrets.

I think I'm the best at everything that I do. I may be biased because it's me. But if you ask me that, that's what I'm going to tell you.

You know, I don't ever - I don't really compare myself to receivers.

I can't answer what coaches value me more. I don't really look for that answer. I look to see if my teammates accept who I am as a basketball player and as a person.

Something like missing a shot, and the next play you're thinking about it, or you give up a play on defense and you're thinking about it, you're frustrated about it, what's happening is that you're really thinking about yourself. You're not connected to the team. And you have to be connected, or those few plays add up.

I think of myself as a great player, but the fans have to decide whether that's true.

As a player, if your attitude is questioned, it's horrible.

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

If I'm tired, I'm coming out. I won't do that to my teammates and stay on the field when I know I'm not going to be able to do it.

Sometimes maybe it just doesn't go right in the game, but that's football, and I think I'm definitely improving game by game, and getting more experience is good.

One of the hardest things for a ball player to do is to accept his role

You don't see yourself in the same way other people see you.

As a competitor, as an athlete, you want the ball to come to you.

I think there are still better players than me.