My dad, being a businessman, constantly talked to me about carrying myself in a certain way and treating people with respect. And I think that's something that's carried over throughout my life. It's how I deal with certain situations.

Once you're on the field, you're playing. You're not worried about anything other than doing your job to help your team.

The biggest thing is I watch myself: What I need to improve on, what I can do different.

I refuse to take shortcuts.

I don't want people to think you have to look a certain way or be a certain mold to be able to be a quarterback.

I don't look at film that closely about my mechanics of where's my elbow at.

If you're going to do something, you're going to do it to be the best.

When you step on the field, you want to be a starter. You want to be the person everybody looks to and says, 'If we need a play to be made, let's go to him.'

I'm not incapable of going through things.

Every time I step on the field, I step on the field to make plays.

My parents told me from the time I can remember that, 'Yeah, you're adopted. But this is your family.' I can remember my mom, she tells me this story: when I was little, I was looking at her, and I was like, 'Why isn't my skin the same color as yours?' She was like, 'Oh, you're adopted, but I wish I had pretty brown skin like you.'

I'm not your typical quarterback. I don't like when people say, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to run,' or, 'Quarterbacks aren't supposed to work out a certain way.'

Quarterbacks can still have good bodies. I'm always conscious of the stereotype. I want to change what people think. There's a lot more to it than what you see on the field.

Teammates tell me to bring it down a notch in practice or that their hands are hurting. Randy Moss told me I was the first person to ever dislocate one of his fingers.

It is funny to me that because I can run, because I'm athletic, people tend to see that as my only asset.

I think the biggest part of my game that's underestimated is the mental part of it.

I don't think I can be too hard on myself.

I have a very high expectation for everything I do. And when I go out and compete, I expect myself to make every play.

I don't watch too much TV when it comes to sports or news or things like that.

I don't play for job security.

Victor Cruz just got his deal with Givenchy - amazing. I was so excited for him. That was amazing. So I think there are great opportunities for a lot of athletes out there.

Once I get into the locker room, I turn on stuff to get me hyped up. Mainly, it's a lot of rap music.

I was not going to let people tell me what I'm capable of.

I think I'm very good at reading coverage and knowing where I want to go with the ball before the ball is snapped.

When it comes down to it, you're playing football regardless of what offense you're in.

At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

Training, that's my specialty.

I trained with a few Olympic runners and jumpers. Just to try to get a little bit faster, a little bit better. Anything I could do to try to get a little bit better and stay ahead of the competition.

I'm not too big on feelings.

What other people think of how I play and how I go about things really isn't something I worry about.

Unless you're being carted off, you should be on the field.

People are terrified of them to the point where Trump wants to ban all Muslims from coming here, which is ridiculous.

Thankfully, God blessed me with some legs that move pretty good, and we also get to wear pads, so I should be alright.

To try to prey on athletes' livelihoods while one is going through a tough time is embarrassing to me.

There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers stop bringing you their problems is the day you have stopped leading them. They have either lost confidence that you can help or concluded you do not care. Either case is a failure of leadership.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.

Get mad, then get over it.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

It ain't as bad as you think. It will look better in the morning.

Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Don't let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your position gets shot down, your ego doesn't go with it.