I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I've always believed in myself and I've surrounded myself with positive-thinking people. That's why a lot of times I don't watch the sports shows or listen to the radio because of that simple fact, that there's too many critics out there and if you listen to everybody's opinion, I think it works against you.

Everything works out in weird ways in the NFL.

My preparation doesn't change from being a backup to a starter.

Competition brings out the best in everybody.

For the most part, from the player standpoint, the coaches do the coaching and you try to come in and execute the game plan or the scheme they put in front of you.

You learn, across the league, with very successful quarterbacks, nobody does it by themselves.

In the preseason, you usually only get a small window of opportunity, but when you get out there for four quarters and you're able to put it together, then you're able to go out there game after game and continue to get better, it was great, especially when I was able to prove a lot of my critics and naysayers wrong.

When I go home, I love to play the 'Tiger Woods' game with my brothers. It's always fun to sit there for a few hours and play.

You always have to be thinking about your opportunity. You always have to be ready.

It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.

I collected baseball and football cards. My most valuable was probably a Mark McGwire rookie card.

I never had a car in high school or college.

Everybody wishes they were better at golf.

I always want to be out there with my team. I always want to fight.

I hope to do the 'Letterman' show, 'Leno,' all that.

If you don't take care of the ball in this league, I know it's tough to win.

One word in one system might mean something else. You have to get a feel for it and study hard and then also when you get into these game-plan weeks, just bear down on what we're doing on a week-to-week basis.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.

All you can ask for in this game is an opportunity.

I feel very blessed and lucky to have the opportunity to get out there and play. That's all you can ask for as a young guy trying to make it in this league.

With every look I can get and every defense I play against I get more experience.

Every rep I can get is valuable.

Any time you get a bye week you embrace it as a player.

You never want to lose but it happens in the NFL.

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.

As you get going in the game you just kind of go along and you play the game.

Every week you go in and hope that you have production in the passing game and also in the running game.

I think that for a lot of young quarterbacks, sometimes it's difficult to get thrown into the fire quickly because from my experience, either you learn how to be a professional from the veteran players.

You have to go through your reads and you have to make smart decisions because if you start forcing it in to double coverage you will get into bad habits and that is when bad plays happen.

I always look forward to playing.

You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.

Five turnovers in the second half; you can't beat anybody doing that.

The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.

As a quarterback, you have to go out and take care of the ball. That is your No. 1 priority.

I care about winning ball games.

Pro Day was very important for me because that was really the only time that I had to prove that I could play at an NFL level and that was really through the physical drills they put me through which was running and throwing the ball. It turned out pretty well for me.

I can't understand for the life of me why people would cheer when somebody gets hurt. I guess that is the sick world that we are sometimes in.

It is always interesting to hear older players come back and talk.

Anytime you can get the ball in the receiver's hands with some space, you let their natural abilities take over.

As long as anybody plays this game, you never master it because there are so many things that are always changing.

I've played in a lot of different roles through the course of my career and I've been a starter for a lot of those years and the mentality can never change.

The hardest part sometimes is when you don't get the reps and you continue to push yourself to learn and understand what's really going on.

I don't want anybody else's life.

I've got a model wife.

I like my life just the way it is. And it's great.

I think I constantly refer back to some of the things that I learned in New England and throughout my career. It was a great stepping stone, and it also gave me time to mature as a player and as a quarterback.

There was a time when I thought, 'God, this whole football thing might not work out for me.'

Teams really take into account character.

I don't read the paper.