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Football Quotes by Alex Smith

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Alex Smith says a quarterback must stay calm during the emotional ups and downs of a game and keep an eye on the bigger picture. He stresses that winning football is essential, because if you don’t perform, someone else will be asked to take over. He also notes that the position relies on many teammates and never lets up.

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Winning is all that does matter.

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Losing is not fun.

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You play for your teammates; you play for each other.

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Playing quarterback, you rely on everybody. Everybody impacts you.

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There are so many good things, great things that go on in this league.

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It's easy when you're always winning.

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The real football starts in training camp.

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No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.

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You can always get better throwing the football.

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It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.

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When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.

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I think you have to enjoy the wins. If you're not enjoying the process, there's a problem. You're not doing it for…

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No one's taking quarterbacks, for the most part, in the first round that haven't had a lot of success.

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I enjoy the challenge of coming together with my teammates and playing well for them.

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As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.

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I think the quarterback position, moreso than in all of sports, no other position compares - you rely on so many people…

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It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.

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This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.

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Game day can be emotional, and there are a lot of ups and downs throughout a game, but as a quarterback, you…

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As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things…

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I think that's the great thing about the NFL. You're out there, and there are very few perennials. It's a battle every…

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As a quarterback, you've got a huge responsibility: You're touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on…

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As a quarterback, when you do have a three-and-out or things do not go right, you are the first one to know.…

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It is healthy to have competition and intense competition, and then, when you walk away from it, you are still teammates, and…

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More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be…

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You have to prove yourself year in and year out, and if you can't get the job done, every team is going…

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It's one thing as a quarterback to sit there and warm up. And there's one thing to throw routes. And there's another…

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I was on some bad teams, and I played bad as a young player, certainly, at times. And that all mounts. Yeah,…

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As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

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The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.

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It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.

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The quarterback position gets a lot of attention.

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We had enough chances to win the game. In fact we did win it.

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That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.

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Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

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To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good…

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There is a strike zone in the pocket that's very clear. Can't hit QBs low, can't hit them high.

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In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too…

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I'm going to play for me and not play for anyone else except my teammates and the guys that matter.

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This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.

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If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

Quarterback play starts with your eyes and feet. Those have to be in the right place and have to be on time.

I don't feel like I have to prove myself to anybody any longer.

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I've been to so many deals with so many of my peers. I hate to say it, but you go, and it's some tournament…

In this league, you can't take your foot off the gas pedal. You think you have something won, but teams are too good, too…

In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that…

I fast all the time - daily. It's such a counterintuitive thing because, my whole life, I've been training to get bigger.

There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them…

It's fun to come in when it's first down. It's not fun to come back in when it's third-and-long.