Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American athlete Jameis Winston.
Last updated on April 21, 2025.
Jameis Lanaed Winston is an American football quarterback for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football at Florida State, where he became the youngest player to win the Heisman Trophy and led his team to victory in the 2014 BCS National Championship Game during his freshman year. Declaring for the NFL after his sophomore season, Winston was selected first overall by the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2015 NFL Draft.
My job is to win games and, hopefully, win Super Bowls.
Well, traditionally, how I grew up, I grew up in the Baptist Church, always going to church every Sunday, Sunday school, vacation Bible school.
Well, ever since I was six, I had a little notebook with coverages and notes on the mental aspect of a game, what it meant to be a leader and what type of attitude you had to have.
When you can put your whole body into things, you can create so much power.
My mother was the youngest of 11 kids and I grew up in her family's household. I was blessed to have my dad in my life and his family lived right down the street from the church.
When I was young, I always wanted to be great at football.
I'm just growing. Growing in faith and trying to better myself as a Christian and as a man.
I'm a strong believer that coaches coach and players play.
I'm such a passionate player, I always want to make big plays and I always want to have excitement.
In the NFL, you have to take advantage of every opportunity that you get, and if you don't, you'll usually lose.
I believe when you're communicating with any player, you're going to have some disagreements.
The most important thing I learned is I have to get my body in shape, because those men look good. Not just the other quarterbacks - everyone. Their bodies look good.
I believe that people make mistakes, but I also believe that you bounce back from those and I'm just moving forward.
Any way you can invest in yourself to make you play better is a good thing.
In college, I was up under this microscope everywhere I went. I couldn't go to class without somebody stalking me or asking me for something, an autograph or a picture.
I just have to keep working hard.
I always make sure I'm talking to kids about education.
One important thing I learned: When you turn the ball over in the NFL, you don't know when you are going to get that chance back.
I learn in different ways. If I can visualize what's going on and see what's happening, I can go out there and do it out there on the field.
A lot of people thought I was fat, but I'm proving everybody wrong.
Me and Coach Koetter have a great relationship, first and foremost, and we've got the same goal when we go out there on that football field - and that's to win the football game.
Draft day is just another chapter in my life.
If you think about a tweet, don't post it.
I'm the head of my home. And I have to get my daily bread by chasing Christ.
Sometimes, you get kind of redundant by learning the same offense over and over again.
You put a big smile on your face and work hard and work to improve every single day.
Coach Koetter coaches his tail off, and he definitely supports me.
My goal is to get better every year and statistically that has happened in a lot of different things.
Sometimes checking that ball down is the simple decision. It's about moving the chains. It's about a completion here and a completion there. And that's how you know the game really slows down is when you're able to do that, when it's just second nature.
I am going to develop some smarter habits.
I always knew that my identity wasn't in football. It wasn't in baseball. I knew it's always been in Christ and just my upbringing has always led me to have a tremendous faith that God was going to see me through and he would not give me too much that I couldn't bear.
Coach Koetter is an amazing offensive coordinator.
Not many kids get the opportunity to meet their idol, I know I wish I did.
I know I've made mistakes.
Every game I try to get better and better.
I just love Coach Koetter's offense.
I dream of being a Hall of Famer one day.
I'm just ready to play football. I'm ready to get involved in the community, I'm ready to just do positive things and move forward.
Going out there and losing is so easy. I want stuff to be hard - that's why I want to win championships, I want to win games.
You never focus on the negative.
I have to be a good game manager for us to be able to win games. I like having a gunslinger mentality, though, because I'm not afraid to make any throw.
Bottom line, to win football games, we've got to get Mike Evans the ball.
There are some throws I should not make.
One thing I always do in the huddle, pre-snap, is make eye contact.
It would be a privilege to be accepted by the Glazer family in Tampa.
I experienced different things growing up as a child that helped me. That helped mold me into the man that I am now, to the athlete that I am now.
I know I have a past.
I'm from the same hometown as Bo Jackson, I wish Bo Jackson would've snuck in the classroom and surprised me.
We showed people we can win with our backs against the wall. We've just got to do that more often.
I look good, and I know it.
When my back's against the wall, I need to rise to the occasion.
I have nothing to prove.
I was baptized when I was younger because I grew up in the church.
The thing about this league that I've learned is that you can't really harp too much on your last game. The next game is the most important game and you've got to prepare for that.
I want to be someone who depended on his mind, his arm.
In high school I wore No. 8, in college I wore No. 5, and five plus three is eight and five minus three is two, you know? Addition and subtraction.
I love math.
I just love the game. I've got a passion for the game.
God is teaching me to really just take small increments towards Him every single day. One thing about Jesus. He's always walking towards us because he wants to guide us. But all we have to do, we have to be willing to be vulnerable and take steps towards Him.
Losing, I believe... losing is too easy. And I hate easy stuff.