Top 100 Quotes & Sayings by Davis Webb
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American footballer Davis Webb.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
I know perfection in this game is very hard to do and pretty much impossible, but it's what I strive for because I think it's what you should do as a quarterback and as a leader.
Hockey was my favorite sport my whole life until I played football.
I want everybody to enjoy success, because that's what football's about. It's a team game.
I get to work out with Eli Manning and NFL guys daily, couldn't ask for anything more.
It was either football or hockey. I chose football, and I think it's worked out OK so far.
I just have to play smart and play the best I can. I think that will be plenty good enough.
One thing I remember, honestly, was how many great players Arizona State had.
I try to come across as a guy that wants just to enjoy success with teammates.
Just get better every day. That's all I can do. When they throw me in there, play good and play like you've been coached to do.
Personally, I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.
If we are running sprints, I want to beat everybody by 10 yards. If we are playing checkers, I want to win: I'm pretty good at checkers, and I'm trying to get on chess.
I mean, if you told me I would be one of the quarterbacks of the New York Giants when I was 6 years old in kindergarten, I think I'd take that.
I'm a hard-working individual and I think that's what separates me.
That's always the No. 1 goal, just be a good teammate and work hard.
I have a strong arm. I wouldn't say strongest in world but it's stronger than a lot of guys and I'm not afraid to say it.
I take a lot of pride in the deep ball - I can throw it 75 yards in the air with ease, and I work at it.
I've always been 6' 5', 230 pounds, and can throw the ball better than anybody. So I've always believed in myself and I'll continue to do that.
I have plenty of opportunities to get better and continue to grow as a quarterback.
I know Odell Beckham is the best ballplayer I've ever seen in my life, and Brandon Marshall is a Hall of Fame receiver and Sterling Shepard is very quick, no one can guard him.
I was a team captain, I was the guy for the first couple years. And then all of the sudden I was just the backup. It wasn't easy. I think it would be easy to bow my head and feel sorry for myself, but I knew as a captain I had to be a great teammate.
I don't try to be average. That's boring. That's not what life's about. I try to be great in everything I do.
I don't want to be a backup. I want to be a starter.
Don't try to chase something that you want to be there but isn't actually there.
There's not one person that sets the standard better to be a New York Football Giant than Eli Manning.
My opportunity, when it ever does come, I want to be ready. But my job, my role, and that's not going to change, is to be the best teammate I can be.
I think the biggest thing I learned was the different types of leadership styles and the ways of pushing peoples' butts, because they're all different.
When I do something wrong, I take it pretty personal because I want to be perfect.
I've always gone through adversity in this game, and I've always overcome it. My middle school coach told me that I was probably a better hockey player than a football player, and that still drives me every day.
Every time I'm in a private interview with teams, I have an opportunity to get on the board, and every team's been impressed with my football IQ.
I love the Buffaloes and I want to be the quarterback for the 2016 season.
I loved the idea of playing quarterback on Friday Night Lights in high school, that whole experience. I wanted to be a Division I quarterback, that became my goal growing up, other than being a professional hockey player.
I still have flash cards from when I was drawing plays when I was 10 years old.
That's what I've learned: you are always to improve whether you are a Hall of Fame quarterback or some rookie.
I'm a cerebral guy, man.
In Prosper, the city shuts down and everybody goes to the games... Everything shuts down. You're idolized around there... Texas high school football - it's a lifestyle. It's a culture.
I find little things that drive me sometimes, but again, I'm already a driven person, and just because I strive for perfection on a personal level and don't really care what other people say or do. I just want to be the best I can be, so that drives me enough.
I hold very high expectations of myself and my work ethic.
I love adversity. It really reveals people, and I think I've handled it pretty good.
I've been at two different high schools, two different colleges, so I've learned some new playbooks, and that always helps me.
We have to stay in shape to compete against so many great players. You want to give your franchise, your team's owner, the best chance to win every Sunday.
I've done as much as I could and as hard as I've worked to try to be ready, but we'll never know until I actually play.
I wish I was there right now. You go to Boulder and see the Flatirons... it's a little more scenic view in Boulder than it is in Lubbock.
It's easy to be patient because you have a guy in the room like Eli Manning who comes in every day, one of the first people in the building and one of the last ones to leave and he's been in the league as long as he has. So that's what it takes to continue to get better, and he sets the standard, and I need to reach it.
Since I was a D-team backup quarterback in seventh grade, I've loved the game.
You've got to do a lot of research. That's the biggest thing: I try to gather as much information as I can to maximize myself. Because if you're just standing still, you're going to be a dinosaur and everyone else will go around you. That's like my biggest fear.
I'm confident in everything I do. It can be playing checkers, and I'm confident.
I think the game's evolving - it always is. You don't want to be a dinosaur. You want to evolve with it.
I commit to the controllables. That's one of the things I live by.
I'm just worried about being a good quarterback first, and being a great teammate.
I can be laid back, but I'm pretty high strung.
I think it's great just to be around great quarterbacks who have played in this league for a long time because everybody wants to.
I'm not overlooked by NFL teams. That's the only thing I really care about.
I'm a natural pocket passer.
I love throwing the deep ball. That is something I'm not scared of.
You get so used to going to MetLife and then going right to the Giant locker room and now you go left to the Jet locker room and that's a little weird - not anymore, but it was at first.
I've kind of become used to making new friends.
I'm very driven, and I play with a lot of passion. So sometimes I'm a little too amped up because I love playing football and I'm very passionate about this game and playing for my teammates.
I prepare every week like there's a chance I could play or just try to do the best I can.
In football, if you don't have the best O-line or receivers, maybe you're not as good of a quarterback as you can be. And it goes vice versa. If you're an average quarterback and you have a great O-line and great receivers, your play gets lifted.
I think you have to every day as an NFL player. I think you have to go out there... and show that you earned the right to be an NFL player and you earn the right every single day by your work habits, your preparation and the way you perform on the field.
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