Top 111 Quotes & Sayings by Joe Flacco
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Last updated on December 23, 2024.
We all sign up where you might get hurt. That's what makes this league a little bit different than any other in professional sports.
I could quarantine forever.
Obviously, when you take a quarterback, when you take anybody in the first round, it means something.
I assume everybody thinks they're a top-five quarterback. I mean, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'm top five, I think I'm the best. I don't think I'd be very successful at my job if I didn't feel that way.
There is definitely little things that motivate you every year.
I feel like, as long as you truly are a good player, then you can't go out and have a bad season.
Listen, I don't think there are any backups in this league that don't have aspirations to be a starting quarterback. It's just part of the business. It's part of being on a team and knowing your role.
Listen, I want to win football games; whatever's going to help us win.
When you are a player, you don't really understand the criticism when you feel like you played pretty well.
There's a lot of disappointment when you lose a playoff game.
It means a lot to me as a quarterback if my receivers think I'm a good quarterback. It doesn't really matter what everybody else thinks, but it means a lot to me when I feel like those guys trust me.
Nothing is every promised to us, man.
I'm not going to be 50 and playing. I hope I'm 40, but 50, no.
If you let yourself believe that you are unsure about what you're doing, then the game is fast. But if you go out there and you're confident and have an idea of what you're supposed to do, then the game slows down for you.
There is a lot of pressure on organizations and on players to win it all. If you don't, there is a lot of disappointment and a lot of fallout because of it.
I'm not a selfish person, I don't think.
I think there is definitely a physical peak for people, and it's probably a little bit later than most people would believe.
When you go out there and you try to change things around and avoid a guy or pick your spots to go at a guy, I think you're usually taking away a piece of your offense that you rely on a lot.
There are guys out there that have got to make a living on hating on somebody.
When things aren't going as well as you might like them to be, it's always a question as to whether my personality... fits what an NFL quarterback should be. It's not anything I'm not used to.
It's a violent sport. It's meant to be that way.
No matter how well or how bad you play, when you have a chance of winning and you come up a little bit too short, it obviously hits you a little bit. It stinks.
You pick guys in the first round - whenever you pick guys - you pick them for a reason.
I really like revenge movies.
We used to listen to a lot of AC/DC before games to get fired up. 'TNT,' 'Thunderstruck,' all that stuff. It really gets you pumped.
Everyone knows quarterback is a position where it takes a while to really start playing well.
This is football, man. We all sign up to get hit.
I just wanted to play baseball because I liked baseball. I never was giving up on football.
In this league, there's a lot of times when you're going to have guys open, and it's going to be all good and the fact that you're off a tick might not matter. But when it really matters, you're going to need to be right on it. And I think the more reps you get, the more likely chance you have to feel comfortable in those times of high stress.
It's tough to maintain 15-play drives consistently and score points.
There are times where you have to be selfish.
What you think you see and what you think a guy did wrong, maybe he did right. Or you see a touchdown pass, but the guy might've been wrong. Something crazy might have happened. You don't know that. That's the toughest thing when it comes to judging play on a football field.
As long as you keep your body healthy quarterback is a position where you should get better as you age.
When you're a 4-6 football team, obviously you haven't played the way you wanted to or the way you think you could.
It's not like I'm a lineman and no matter what, the game is physical. There's weeks where I get hit a lot and weeks where I don't.
Each one is different; each season is different.
Getting in field-goal range isn't that tough.
I have a tough time beating around the bush and just saying something you want to hear. I kind of say it how it is, even if I don't realize that's maybe not what I should say at the moment.
It always gets you going when you get hit for the first time. It reminds you that you play football.
Hey, it's tough not to have a ton of admiration for the fans of Baltimore. And, for it me, it's because they are such a hard-working, blue-collar fan base that loves football.
You can't be afraid to say, 'Coach, I don't understand.'
I'm never going to question myself or question the guys around me. We're just going to look at each other and we're going to look in the mirror and I'm going to tell myself and everybody that we have to get better, I have to get better.
It doesn't feel good in the NFL when you lose a football game until you get out there and win another one and another one.
What I choose to do reflects who I am.
The most important thing is win enough games to get into the playoffs. Then, once you get into the playoffs, win.
I definitely have a chip on my shoulder after having transfered to Division I-AA.
People are going to go out and do things after games and celebrate and do that kind of stuff. Everybody cannot be everywhere, and nobody can prevent crazy things from happening. Stuff is going to happen, and you've just got to deal with it.
Listen, winning the Super Bowl, winning the Super Bowl MVP doesn't make me as valuable as I am.
If you want to have a Super Bowl, put a retractable dome on your stadium, then you can get one.
In order to make it in this league, period, you have to be able to tune out some things and believe in yourself and go play.
I have a great relationship with Special Olympics back in Baltimore and have had one for many years.
You don't have a lot of transplants in Baltimore. And I think that makes sports mean more to the people who live there. It translates to the passion of the fans and how the stadium reacts on Sunday.
You don't want to get to the point where you play out your contract and you get to those complicated situations where they can put the franchise tag on you and things like that.
I'm a guy that does not like to throw interceptions.
Winning the Super Bowl is the No. 1 priority.
I do know that you'll definitely never see me sporting a mustache.
In so many ways, when you're in college, you're even closer with the locker room than you are with a professional team.
In my mind, the speed of the game is mental.
I've thrown many picks in my life, man.
When you're a quarterback in this league, you're going to be talked about and it's going to be on a weekly basis.
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