When you pick that high in the draft, you need to have a difference-maker. On offense or defense, he needs to be a player who can help your football team for 10-plus years.
Quotes about difference-maker (15 Quotes)
She's aggressive and she's a good athlete that plays with a lot of emotion and a lot of passion down on the blocks. She has really been a big difference-maker for Butler. They really haven't had an inside presence in a while. To come in here and score 28
I don't have a problem with the guy. The guy is a tremendous player on the field. Everyone has seen that, and I have been a part of that. It takes a team to succeed on the field, so no way do I ever point at one person as being the reason why we were winning or losing football games. But he certainly is a difference-maker. If I were able to have the opportunity to be a teammate of his again, I would not back down from it.
We need people who can defend the other big guys in the league, and he'll benefit us. You can't teach height. We'll need patience, but he can be a difference-maker. He's going to have a chance to be a very good player.
It's been taxing on me, having to watch, ... Hopefully, I won't have to watch any longer. It's tough because when you're on the outside looking in, you think every bad play, you could have made. That's not realistic. It hurts when your team is losing. The only thing I can do is to try to have the mind-set that whenever I get back, I'm going to try to be a difference-maker.
Mike Miller caught fire and they just executed well at the end of the game. You have to know where he is on the floor, and he was drawing a lot of attention. He was a difference-maker tonight and did a great job as far as carrying his team and making some big shots.
The difference-maker tonight. The strength of the man, his ability to get around the defense and get it to the net and put it away is just unbelievable.
Yeah, if we make that extra point, maybe we go into overtime. But if I make that last throw I mean that's what Brett Favre is all about. I feel I can be the difference-maker in good times and in bad. I feel like I let this team down.
Jeff has paid his dues to the company. I expect him to be good, I mean real good. He can be a guy who can do it all, there is no doubt in my mind. The Jeff Rowe I am expecting this season is going to be a difference-maker. He has to take command of this thing. If things aren't going right, he doesn't have to fix everything, he just has to put us in position to make things go right.
I was never satisfied with just being here and being the starting quarterback, ... I always wanted to be the difference-maker, and it got me in trouble at times. But I'm still here and have been able to play at a high level for a long time because I believed that. And that's what's been so disappointing this year. If we lost, 30-0, then I don't think I could sit there and say that I was the difference.
I don't have a problem with the guy. He's a tremendous player on the field. I've witnessed that. He's a difference-maker. If I were to have an opportunity to be a teammate of his again, I wouldn't back down from the situation.
If you move up, you're going to pay a price. I wouldn't be against giving up a package for a certain individual who you think is an incredible player, a difference-maker. But the people who go up to do something like that probably think, 'We're a player away from a world championship.' I don't know if we're there yet.
I'm a big believer that if you can get a tight end that can stretch a defense vertically and give you some blocking on top of it, you can change your whole offense. That's why I think San Francisco is going to take him at six because they have average wide receivers, he can help with a young quarterback, and he can be a difference-maker.
Those guys set the tone, and it trickles down to the rest of us. The cohesiveness we have, that's the difference-maker. In all the years we've done well, that's been the difference.
All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up another guy. Maybe I can take the double-team and somebody else makes a play. I just want to get myself totally healthy and get back out there and help out.