Passing Skills Quotes

I'm not the strongest, I'm not the fastest, I can't jump the highest, so for me, it's doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.

I was the center on our fraternity team, but I was a center-eligible, so I was known for my ability to go out, and I was pretty sure-handed catching a pass in the flat about ten yards down the field. My father played high school football and was pretty good. He also played center, so I always relished the idea that we both ended up playing center.

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

My reads, operation with the offense, timing with the receivers, routes, sitting in the pocket, trusting my line - everything is always a work in progress.

I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway's arm, Dan Marino's release, maybe Troy Aikman's drop-back, Brett Favre's scrambling ability, Joe Montana's two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.

I like to have the puck when I have speed. You know, then I'm dangerous.

Dunk, and people anywhere will ooh and aah. But you can wow a crowd in New York with ball handling and passing.

I started out at youth level as a holding midfielder.

I don't play full court anymore. I just play half-court.

The thing I love about the NBA game is that it's a playmaker's league.

I have had some bad shooting games but that doesn't stop me from getting the ball to my teammates

I was born to be a point guard, but not a very good one.

Being from New York, everybody's a point guard. Even when you play in the park, you've got to know how to handle the ball. If you can't handle the ball, you can't really play.

I see young quarterbacks just coming into the league, and they're throwing screens and layoffs right away. As funny as this might sound, I really learned a lot by going downfield, even in tight coverage.

I think it's great just to be around great quarterbacks who have played in this league for a long time because everybody wants to.

Josh Smith, put in the right spots, is an outstanding player. You put Josh down on the right block, in the low post or even on a short isolation - 12 feet, 15 feet from the basket - he can get to the rim. He's outstanding. He's not only a very willing passer but an outstanding passer. I think it's the best part of Josh's game.

When I stated playing as a kid the centre-back would pass to me and I couldn't catch it.

Karl Malone used a lot of veteran stuff that I thought was cool. Charles Barkley taught me a lot when I played against him. How he would use his body or use his dribble to get people in there and all that stuff. Veteran moves.

Corner is the easiest three in basketball.

That's what Europe brought to the NBA: the passing skills, the shooting skills.

I'm starting to figure it out - figure out my spots, where I should be on the court, where I'm most effective, and how I handle double teams - and it's paying off.

Everybody thinks when I say a guy is a good game manager, that's a negative, but I think it's a real positive. You have the ball in your hand every time when you're a quarterback. Whether you're handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that's extremely important.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

When I first went into the senior game I was more of an attaching player to begin with.

It's funny: one of the strongest parts of my game today is heading, and that only really developed when I started playing at the professional level. In the youth teams, all we did was passing.