Trent Dilfer Quotes (40 Quotes)

The guy next to me is going to be best player out here when he starts doing it full time. A lot of us have been playing other sports.

I know he's playing his last couple of years and he doesn't want to be screwing around, ... He wants to get back to the Super Bowl on the fastest track possible. It's just a matter of where he sees that fastest track being. He's not going to make a bad choice. Whatever his decision is, it'll be a great one.

I had very low expectations. Honestly, I think I had 11 rounds of golf the entire year in before this tournament, and I had hit balls maybe four or five times.

There are some guys out here that can really play golf, but it has not been their focus for that long.

His greatest impact would be just his presence, ... I believe now that Ricky Watters is gone, I'm the only guy on this roster who's won a Super Bowl. But Shannon would change that. He's won three. He knows what it takes and his daily regimen shows the commitment level that's necessary. Guys would come to view him as the most credible player to show us all how to do this thing.

Braylon wants to get better, and he wants to get a sense of timing and rhythm with me. After the one I just missed him down the middle, I went to the sideline and told him we're not there yet but we're going to get there this game.

In 1998, I was with Tampa Bay when we led the league in rushing - and we stunk. We led the league in rushing because we ran the ball all the time.

I held out for 12 days. It was a wonderful decision financially and a horrible decision football-wise. Being completely honest, if I had to do it all over again, I'd have sacrificed the 2 million I made to be a better football player my first couple years.

This week we're playing against a great front seven, ... a team that knows how to pressure the quarterback and overload the run game and make you run uphill.

It's a great test. They have a very active defense, a defense that brings pressure, which quarterbacks love. Hopefully, it will open up a chance to make big plays.

I love him, ... He's a great player. He immediately makes you a better football team. There's not many players, outside of quarterbacks, who when they walk into the locker room, you're a better team. It's simple. When he's there, you're better. And when he leaves, you're worse off.

Anytime there's no sacks they did their job. I'm very comfortable with those guys. They're a great group. We're going to be able to do a lot of good things because of them.

The biggest factor today was big plays. We called some aggressive pass plays and were able to capitalize on some. Even the ones we didn't (connect on) scared the snot out of them.

When you're not playing well as a quarterback, what I've learned is, you can't panic. The challenge with this football team is, when things go bad, people get frustrated. My challenge is not to let that happen.

You're a different offense with him, because he can stretch the middle of the field vertically. He's a guy who can get open anywhere in the middle of the field. He gets open between the hashes better than any human being I've ever seen. There's a lot of crap that goes on in there between the hashes, and he negotiates that brilliantly. Not many guys can do that.

Went to 16 and hit a really bad 3 wood for my second shot and got stuck in the bunker about 70 yards from the pin. Poor execution, chunked it, hit a good chip up to about eight feet, missed it.

Darrell's ability to come off the ball, his first three steps, are getting to be as good as anybody in football, ... He runs his routes in a way that is very hard to decipher between out-cuts and in-breaking cuts and the vertical game.

I think the history's been a lot of a burden for the organization. But I think the players just started to feel it recently. A lot of times that would be a bad thing, but I think they used it to their advantage.

I asked the ref if the hit was low and late. He said he was pushed into me. I don't get caught up in that other stuff. If you do, you can lose your focus.

We're not afraid to say what we think we're going to do. I'm not a big believer in talking before the game, but this team has the ability to back up pretty much anything it says.

I hate speculating about that because I've had things that have hurt so bad before I didn't think I'd be able to walk and I was fine the next day. I've had stuff that hasn't hurt that bad and it holds you out.

(He) doesn't really need a mentor anymore. Maybe the first couple years, I walked him through some things. But I look at him as a peer now.

The one hit, I thought I was done. There was a sharp pain, I didn't think I would be able to get up. But that's happened before and you get up and move it around a little bit and you realize it's not a catastrophic injury at the time. When I realized it wasn't, I wasn't going to come out.

Since I've got here, Darrell has been the guy in my mind that scares people the most with his ability to get off press, his ability to stretch zones and his ability to run after catches.

Chicagos inept offense had no chance at that point. Every game has a different profile, ... Todays profile was ugly, be mentally tough, hang in there and when theres a play to be made, make it.

What was so attractive about this trade was that, unlike other teams who we talked to (Miami and San Francisco), the Browns didn't call and say, 'Hey, we'd love for you to come in and start for a year, and then train whoever we draft,'

After the one down the middle where I just missed him, on the sidelines I said, 'We're not there yet but we're going to get there this game,' and we did. We got there on the slant. He's getting better every day.

He's far superior to me when it comes to leadership, ... I can't have the kind of impact that he does on a team. And he doesn't lead with just his words. He leads with his actions far more. He plays hard and he practices hard. It's infectious.

It was just one mistake of many. We all took our turn making mistakes.

The team the last couple years as taken a pounding emotionally,

This team showed an incredible mental toughness. It didn't let the storms of the game bother them. They weathered each one of them and this game wasn't in doubt at the end because they showed so much resolve.

Hit the ball pretty solid. Haven't played a lot of golf this year, so was really unsure of what it would be like. I've been playing pretty well lately, especially hitting the ball solid.

In my opinion, (Richardson) was the MVP, ... It was brutal down (on the field with the winds gusting). It was very hard to control the ball and punters and quarterbacks have a similar rotation on the ball. I thought Kyle did a great job being mentally tough.

So I went way too in depth? I thought they wanted the hole by hole.

I'm excited to see how I'll hold up under pressure. I'm swinging as well as I've ever swung the golf club, so we'll see if that holds up.

Its discouraging, ... I thought wed score three to four touchdowns, I really did. We didnt get any big plays.

I put the burden on me. I don't care how low it is, it's my job to get it. I saw the ball. I tried to go down and get it. It hit off my foot. I tried to grab it and Ray took it from me.

There's nothing wrong with failing if you learn from it, and I've failed out here plenty.

Thats how it should be, ... Ive always been a believer that nobody should be safe, that you should have to earn your position week in and week out and perform. I expect that.

I was in the back part of the bunker, so I had to carry the whole bunker. It was probably 20 yards.