Top 103 Quotes & Sayings by Alex Smith
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Last updated on November 22, 2024.
When you take shots downfield, you want to be good at them.
For me, it's about winning games. I'm trying to score more points than the other team. I don't really care how we do it.
That's a special time, to get drafted.
I don't measure myself in my contract in terms of what I'm making.
Winning is all that does matter.
You're never going to make everybody happy; there are always going to be people that, yeah, aren't with you. That's the nature of sports.
There are a lot of peripheral things that you have to deal with in this league, and I dealt with a lot of them when I came in. It's everything from being on your own to facing the media.
I really have fun playing golf.
If you're going somewhere, you want to go somewhere where you have a chance to have success.
More often than not as a quarterback, your performance is a reflection of the guys around you. I've been fortunate to be around some pretty good guys.
As a quarterback, I always feel like it's my job to be that steady, calm presence in there.
I put a lot of pressure on myself. Sometimes you are your own worst enemy.
Quarterback play starts with your eyes and feet. Those have to be in the right place and have to be on time.
That's what you want; that's what you want to play for: fans that are in it and want it as bad as you do.
To a lot of people, I might just be the guy who went No. 1 in the draft. Or the guy who lost his job to Colin Kaepernick. Or the guy who helped turn a 2-14 Chiefs team into a back-to-back division champ... but then couldn't put them over the top.
As flashy as draft picks are, the reality of them helping out in Year One anyway is not necessarily the case. That's not the reality.
You're frustrated when things aren't going right. When you're out there, you have your piece of it, your view. It isn't until usually the next day when you're watching the film that you get to put all the pieces together: 'Oh, this is what happened on that play'; 'This is why I did that.' You don't totally know that game day.
No quarterback goes out there and plays well on his own.
As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.
It wasn't until I stopped worrying about my own validation and finally refocused my energy on things I could actually change that I finally grew as a person and as a professional.
If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.
I've seen a rebuild, and I've seen how quickly things can turn around when guys buy in.
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 talented.
Once you pull the trigger, you've got to throw balls aggressively and with conviction.
I don't know if there were many pros for me playing early. I feel like I dug myself a pretty deep hole that rookie year.
Embrace the new, no matter how uncomfortable, and make it work for you.
I carried around a lot of weight and anxiety - expectations of being a top draft pick and fulfilling those. It was really burdensome and not fun. Stressful. I had to go through some things before I finally turned that around and got back to playing for the right reasons.
Utah will always be special to me. They were the school that gave me an opportunity, and I grew so much as a person and player there.
That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.
Losing is not fun.
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 single year. You can go first to worst, worst to first.
I don't really care how many yards I throw for; as long as we score more points than the guys we're playing.
Instincts and fundamentals take over sometimes.
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.
To continue to fight, not get frustrated, to stay together and find a way - I think that's important. I think good teams do that.
You can always get better throwing the football.
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 all the right reasons.
Game day can be emotional, and there are a lot of ups and downs throughout a game, but as a quarterback, you have to be able to see the bigger picture, steady that ship, get all the guys focused in on the task at hand, and keep the thing moving.
There is a strike zone in the pocket that's very clear. Can't hit QBs low, can't hit them high.
As a quarterback, especially when I come off to the sideline, I am trying to get things corrected, trying to get things figured out and move on to the next series.
I definitely grew up a Chargers' fan.
Obviously, flagrant things have to be called. There are rules. You have got to play to the rules, no question.
I used to make fun when I got into the league, and I couldn't believe these old guys that didn't know artists on the radio, like in the weight room.
Failures and setbacks are inevitable for all of us.
It's football. Guys get hurt all the time.
Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.
As a quarterback, you certainly don't want to hamstring your team in any way because - I know this more than anyone - you rely so heavily on those playmakers around you.
When the guys are playing well around you, you look good.
You play for your teammates; you play for each other.
The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.
Certainly, there were tough times, but no, you can't go back and change it. So, why dwell on it?
As a quarterback, when you do have a three-and-out or things do not go right, you are the first one to know. You know more than anyone out there what went wrong and what needs to be corrected and don't necessarily always need to hear it when you come off to the sideline.
It's far different aging as a quarterback than aging as a tight end.
I love Kansas City. I love the coaching staff, the players.
Most of the time, you're just trying to be the point guard out there based on the play call and the defense that you're getting; that really dictates where the football goes.
We can only control how we react and how we respond, and that complex but so simple idea helped me survive.
When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.
When I watch good friends play, it's almost worse when you're watching, because you have zero impact: you have zero hand in what's going on. When I'm playing, you don't have that because I'm involved in it. I have some kind of say in what's going on.
This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.
In the pocket, you do have some protections, but you get out of the pocket, and defenders' eyes get big. Sometimes you learn that the hard way.
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