Top 108 Quotes & Sayings by Troy Aikman - Page 2

I've never gotten into anything that I didn't feel I'd be successful doing.

As the equipment has gotten better - and it's gotten better in an attempt to try to protect the player more - then the equipment becomes used more as a weapon.

I'm looking forward to being a supporter of the Dallas Cowboys. I want to watch them win another Super Bowl.

I don't understand why guys want to be controversial and in the press all the time. It's just not my nature.

You can't just can't simply replace head coaches and say, 'Now it's going to be better.'

I think when the cameras are on him is when Coach Switzer is at his best.

I'm not an open person. Something's really got to be troubling me to have heart to heart talks with anybody.

I will always root for the Sooners.

It doesn't matter how tough you are. It doesn't matter how smart you are or what a great leader you are. None of that stuff matters if you can't put the ball where you have to put it.

I've said for many, many years, as long as I can ever remember, when I'm asked, 'Hey, what do you look for first in a quarterback?' The first thing I look for is accuracy, because the rest of it doesn't matter.

If you do anything with the Cowboys, there's an interest in it. And there are people who constantly want to write books about our teams in the '90s. They want to interview me. I say, 'Look, I've done it a million times. I'm just not interested. What's left to tell?'

When you stand and talk about player safety, and then, at the same time, you want to extend the season two more games, there's a contradiction in there.

I consider myself to be one of the really, really fortunate ones to have gotten out of the game as healthy as I did.

When I work a Cowboys game, my social media will blow up with, 'Hey, don't forget who you played for,' or, 'You traitor.'

Broadcasting keeps you relevant.

The only way you're gonna eliminate helmet-to-helmet contact is to take the helmets off. Go back to leather helmets. I mean, I think a defensive player would be much less inclined to lead with his head if he had no protection.

I was brought up not to brag. I've always disliked people who do.

As a quarterback, I appreciated the passer rating whether you threw the ball a majority of the time or if you didn't throw it as much. You were judged on a level playing field, and I thought teams should be ranked similarly.

Hey, I'm big-boned.

I believe - and this is my opinion - that at some point, football is not going to be the No. 1 sport. You talk about the ebbs and flows of what's popular and what's not. At some point, the TV ratings are not going to be there.

It's not important to me that everyone knows everything about me or that I reveal all that I am or have.

I know what a championship locker room looks like, what a championship team requires.

Most of the pressure, if not all, is self-imposed.

I'll never forget when I was 12 years old. I couldn't wait until the day I was 16 and could drive a car. I thought that'd be the end of life's problems. I mean, you can drive! What is there left? And then I turned 16 and realized there were still problems.

You get down on yourself. You get disappointed in yourself. I expect more out of myself. As far as losing confidence as far as what I can do, that won't ever happen.

What I am is a direct result of how I was raised.

I'm happy to do some endorsements if I believe in the product. You're only in this game a short time, and you want to collect the money while you can.

I think having won a Super Bowl puts you on a different level. I know, for me, it's extremely important to win this ballgame.

I probably would have played baseball if I had stayed in California... But I like Oklahoma better now. Football is bigger here. It's more exciting, anyway.

I'm not here to propel myself into the limelight. I'm here to win a football game. If I am propelled into the limelight, I want it to be because of what I do on the football field, not because of some grand marketing strategy.

The quarterback I enjoy watching the most is Dan Marino.

I think I'm a harder critic on myself than anybody is. I think I judge myself harder than any of the coaches do.

To say, 'I don't worry about perception,' you better worry about perception because it's a big part of making it through some very difficult times.

Working with someone who's got your best interest at heart can make all the difference.

The one thing disappointing I had coming out of college was not playing in the Rose Bowl.

Some coaches don't want their players to be the stars. They want their systems to be the stars.

At one time, watching football was an event. Monday Night Football was a big event.

I've lived in Texas now longer than anywhere and then California and then Oklahoma, but yet Oklahoma is what I consider home.

No matter what happens for the rest of my career, at least I can say I took my team to a Super Bowl, and I was able to win.

The thing I've always liked about the playoffs is the finality of it and knowing there's so much importance on every play.

12 of the best years of my life - It will never be forgotten.

I've always viewed myself as an achiever. I need to achieve for myself.

No excuse for those mechanical errors to be happening.

Things are never as good as you think they are or ever as bad as you think they are.

I know how difficult my rookie year in the NFL was and I know how competitive this sport is.

Just remember that nothing is as bad as it seems and nothing is as good as it sometimes appears.

We go in with eyes wide open and recognize there will be a lot of hard work involved. But we anticipate having success. We feel like we have assembled a great group of people. If we were going to do it any other way, we would have made an announcement a long time ago. We were very diligent.

Losing doesn't eat at me the way it used to. I just get ready for the next play, the next game, the next season.