Ryan Tannehill Quotes

As a quarterback, you have to love it. As much as you like to turn around and hand the ball off - the whole traditional football game - as a quarterback, you gotta love putting it in the air.

I'm a drop-back passer, and those seldom win Heismans.

Any quarterback that understands what the offense is really about is going to succeed.

Quarterback is not a position that you come in having not played it your whole life.

If you can grab a ball and throw it, you can grab a ball and throw it. I don't care how tall you are, either. I'm not gonna see over a 6-foot-7 left tackle. You've gotta find lanes; you've gotta know where your guys are. It's not about the height: if you can win ball games, you can win 'em.

I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.

You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to deliver the ball from the pocket.

Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

Aaron Rodgers - I love the way he scrambles and how he plays the game - he always makes great decisions with the ball.

If you give Brett Favre time to throw the ball and single coverage, you're making the offense that much better.

I'm actually comfortable a little bit out of range as well. I like to pick my times when to come in. I'm very comfortable in the pocket as well.

Look at guys like Tom Brady and Aaron Rodgers. Those guys have great arms, but people talk about them more as a quarterbacks and the intellectual side of the game and how they really dissect defenses - and then the arm is something else that helps them with that.

Before I receive the ball I already know how that play is developing so I'm able to give rhythm to that play.

In college, I was a running QB. We were a sprint out offense, so I had a big transition going into pro ball.

When I scramble and do those things, I try to look downfield, look for the playmakers, put it in their hands, and let them make all the big plays happen.

I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

I'm just going to continue to make good plays. Making the right decisions, good decisions with the ball so my team can play with a great flow.

It doesn't make much sense to blitz a guy that gets rid of the ball in less than 1.5 seconds.

Matt Ryan does a great job of throwing the ball. No quarterback within the 20 to 25 yard range is throwing the ball any better than Matt Ryan.

It's one thing as a quarterback to sit there and warm up. And there's one thing to throw routes. And there's another thing when you drop back in the pocket and, when a guy comes open, to really be able to urgently - bam - all of a sudden. That guy's open; your body has to do what your mind's telling you.

Obviously, when you have a quarterback of the caliber of Aaron Rodgers, we're going to have high expectations.

I know that if something isn't open down field I can take advantage of my legs and make a play.

Some of the best quarterback play is when you're able to move in the pocket and still make throws down the field because it's not going to be clean every time.

I think for any QB, if you play with confidence you play well because you're confident in what you're doing; you're confident in where you're going with the ball.