I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.

You just have to always go out and continue to work hard, watch the film, see what you did wrong from an offensive unit and individually. Then, you just have to go out and do better the next time out. That is what sports is all about.

I've been through a lot in my career. I've been through the ups, I've been through the downs. I've been through the highs and the lows.

It always comes down to being accountable to your teammates and so many times you get caught up in everything else going on. And I remember as a young guy, you always worry about, 'Well, who's getting the reps,' and this, that and the other, and it takes you and distracts you away from just doing your job.

We knew what was going on with Spygate. We were in football mode, and it didn't impact our day-to-day. There's so much noise on the outside - 'You're cheaters, you're this, you're that' - but the easiest way to settle that is to go 18-0 and go to the Super Bowl.

In 2005, our starting center, Dan Koppen, went down with a season-ending injury. Russ Hochstein was always our interior 'swing guy' - he played guard and center - and I remember Russ stepping in and playing beautifully.

I've been on a number of NFL teams, and a lot of them address situational football. But I've never been around a team that does it as meticulously as the New England Patriots.

I've always pushed myself and taken great pride in what I do.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

When I was a kid, we used to play 'Madden' and 'NCAA Football' all the time. I have two brothers, so we grew up on these games.

The first thing that came to mind when I met Tom Brady was intimidation. I'm showing up in 2005 with a guy who just came off his third Super Bowl win. So, it's a little intimidating walking in the room with Tom Brady for the first time.

The thing about the 2008 season which sticks out for so many people was we were coming off the 18-1 year where we went to the Super Bowl and lost in dramatic fashion with the catch and everything else that happened.

Unfortunately, I've been around a lot of organizations over my 14-year career that have dealt with off-field issues.

I was in Minnesota in 2014 when Adrian Peterson was suspended. In that situation, we were about to play the Patriots when his suspension came out the Friday before the game.

The Thursday night game is by far the most difficult game to prepare for. You can't get into as much depth as you normally would in your game plan because you just don't have the time. You've got to jump right into the next opponent.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.

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.