Quotes of Quarterback - somelinesforyou

“ Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck. ”

- Don Shula

“ What's the worst thing that can happen to a quarterback? He loses his confidence. ”

- Terry Bradshaw

“ Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitivness. ”

- Tom Brady

“ A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one. ”

- Miller Huggins

“ If you ask any great player or great quarterback, there's a certain inner confidence that you're as good as anybody. But you can't say who is the absolute best. To be considered is special in itself. ”

- Dan Marino

“ I killed many a quarterback. I felt like I scored when I took their head off. ”

- Harvey Martin

“ Common sense always speaks too late. Common sense is the guy who tells you ought to have had your brakes relined last week before you smashed a front end this week. Common sense is the Monday morning quarterback who could have won the ball game if he had been on the team… ”

- Raymond Chandler

“ Publishers are notoriously slothful about numbers, unless they're attached to dollar signs — unlike journalists, quarterbacks, and felony criminal defendants who tend to be keenly aware of numbers at all times. ”

- Hunter S. Thompson

“ I'm a quarterback, not a cook. I'm not a restaurant manager. Throwing is what I love to do. It brings me the most fun and the most pleasure. When someone's in tight coverage and you throw it by the guy who's covering him — like a fastball — to complete a pass… ”

- Dan Marino

“ Like a quarterback for a football team, CEOs get to take all of the credit when things go well and have to take all of the blame when things go badly. Yet legally, they are not held accountable. When a quarterback fumbles, throws a few interceptions, maybe even throws the game, the coach has a responsibility to bench him, so that no more follies will occur. ”

- Lee Terry
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