Carson Palmer Quotes (59 Quotes)

Probably the first quarter is getting the flex and the extension back in your leg, and I have done that fairly quickly. I was ahead of the game on that. Now I'll move into the second phase, which is strength and conditioning, and then I'll move into running and jumping, and then I'll be ready to go.

People said we couldn't play physically, that we were a finesse team. I think we showed them today. Even without Ray Lewis, this is a tough, tough team.

I was trying to work on them (to play more). It's good they don't leave those decisions up to the players and we've got smarter, more stern people like (coach) Marvin (Lewis) and the training staff who have the bigger picture in mind.

This is a great moment for me both professionally and personally. Working with the coaches here and the Brown family has been a tremendous experience. I love our prospects for being a great team into the future and we love living in Cincinnati.

I feel extremely honored and thrilled that they want me to be a part of this organization. We're building a team for the future. We're young. We know what we've got.

I've been given a lot of freedom as far as that's concerned, but no more freedom than I had last year, ... It's the quarterback's job to get you in the right play. That's just part of my role. If anything, I'm just more experienced doing it.

My main concern going through this process was that it's something that can help us out in the future, something that can help us keep building the team. And hopefully, we can keep those guys around. Hopefully Willie (Anderson) and Levi and some of those guys up front want to stick around for a while.

He knows how to handle himself with a big media crowd and a lot of attention, because he's done it most of his career. He's great at it. From that standpoint, you have to feel he'd do very well in New York.

It took me longer than what I wanted, ... but I started to feel better about my abilities. I started to feel confident about myself as the year went on. Things really start to slow down. You start to process information faster at the line of scrimmage. You can do it in college, but college is a whole different world from the pros.

That was my main concern, something that could help us out in the future.

We're sprinting (into the playoffs). I know you guys (media) aren't going to be pumping us up too much and not have a whole lot of confidence in us but that locker room has all of the confidence in the world in each other. We still feel like we have one of the best offenses in the league.

When you play a championship team, you can't give them anything,

It's a game we had to win to control the division. You can say all you want about how we had to beat Pittsburgh, we just needed to win this game.

A lot of it is just experience. I've had a year underneath my belt and played. Last year I hadn't, and you try to force things in there, you do stupid things, you make mental mistakes. Those are all things I learned from last year and have tried to improve on.

That was kind of a dagger in the heart for them, ... That was a fun drive.

We got Chad the ball enough times today to keep him satisfied,

Before we're a championship team, we need to get better offensively and really take advantage of every turnover, ... We punted a lot today.

It's a huge win for us, ... Coming in here, we said good teams and great teams answer after a loss.

He's a very passionate person, and you could tell Cincinnati had a very big place in his heart.

That's what a lot of people have been talking about. It should be exciting.

We were better in some areas this week and worse in some areas. We still have two more games to get sharp. There's still a lot of areas we need to fix up.

Chad really is harmless. He's a little kid at heart and does a lot of things that make you laugh. He just loosens the mood and makes you realize, we're still playing a game.

It's great to sit and learn, and it's great to get in there and get experience, ... I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do it. It depends on what the team needs. Dave's situation They didn't have a quarterback, so he had to play.

He just had a bad run-in with his agent. He didn't want it to be as big of a deal as it is. He didn't even realize how big of a deal it would be. He's got a lot of people representing him. Leigh was just one of the guys and he just decided to go in a different direction.

Ever since I've known Troy, he's just let it go. He doesn't cut it. That's just his thing, his style, ... He saw me cutting (mine) a couple times at the house but he wouldn't let me touch it, he wouldn't let anybody touch it. I like it, though. It's his style. Troy's a very unique individual, and he's got his own style and his own ways.

He was a phenomenal player. He just kind of had a bad streak of luck.

The truth is that if I wasn't hurt I'd be here for 2 12 hours but now I've got to work out for 2 12 hours and I've got 2 12 to 3 hours more of rehab to do, so I'm not cheating anybody.

The only time I think about it is when you guys ask me questions, ... It was great to sit and learn, but it would have been great to get in there and get some experience. I don't think there's a right way or a wrong way to do it.

It's not offensive, it's harmless. He's just being Chad. He's being himself and doing what comes to his head.

It's frustrating at times, but you can't let it affect you too much or get to your head too much. You've got to keep playing and realize things will open up later.

Just from a physical point of view, he's an outstanding quarterback. There isn't anything different about Carson Palmer after the Combine. If he's the first pick in the draft, he certainly deserves to be. He was fine.

It's one of those things you can't go into full-bore, ... You need to see what you're comfortable with and test it and move on from there step by step. It can be a disaster if you don't do it right. If you try to do too much, guys are confused. We've taken it really slow and tried to improve on it.

I was laying down in the back seat looking back at the stadium lights. That's the only thing that goes through my head, it's that feeling. It was our first playoff game at the stadium here. That was my last memory of that game it wasn't the play at all. I don't have that play in my head. I just have that feeling of being there and not being able to finish the game.

We really don't have a No. 3 receiver or a No. 2 receiver. We've got a lot of guys that can make plays. We've got so many guys that understand their roles and are not going to bicker if they don't get a catch. They're a very unselfish receiving corps. That makes my job a lot easier.

We've come a long way at reading each other's body language at the line of scrimmage when we're watching what the defense is doing to us, ... He's come a long way on that and he's brought me along with him.

No comparison. That first year, you don't know what to expect. You're not sure of yourself. You haven't taken a snap against a defense. There really is no comparison.

He did well when he threw from the pocket, setting up, but when he was on the move, he wasn't as impressive or as accurate as I thought he'd be.

This is my first knee surgery and I understand that sometimes there are complications and sometimes things can be set back a week or two but I'm not worried about that. All I'm worried about is doing everything I can in here every day and getting ready for the opener.

You see him before the game and after the game, and he's got more bags of ice on him than anybody. He's got electricity stimulants hooked up to him. He's got three or four trainers working on him at one time.

We just did a good job of communicating.

He saw me cutting it a couple of times at the house, but he wouldn't let me touch (his). He wouldn't let anybody touch it.

He used his body today to block the defender off. He used a basketball move where he posted him up a little bit.

It's a situation this organization hasn't been in for quite a while.

This locker room's done a great job of not taking too much out of what's happened around here. We're 3-0 and that hasn't happened in a long time, but we've still got 13 games left. We haven't played Pittsburgh yet. We haven't played Baltimore yet. We've got Indy. We've got a lot of big games coming up.

I didn't have a chance to talk to him, ... He called a great game. He keeps you on your toes defensively. They had a couple of turnovers and other things he can't control.

This team's really, really been grinding. And that's Marvin's philosophy. For us to get a week off and have an opportunity to really rest our bodies and get ready for the playoffs would be huge.

I thought a lot about it. It seems like everything happened so fast. Parts of last night that seemed like minutes were hours. Looking back, some of last night flew by. But I don't think this thing is going to hit me until I get going on the rehab session, start battling the road back.

It comes in parts, and it comes in practice. It's not sitting in the meeting and looking at a play on the wall that's drawn up in marker. It comes in preseason games, in throwing picks here and throwing picks there. In making bad reads here and there. You learn from it all. That's how I'm going to get there.

It sucks, but I'm looking at it as a small bump in the road, ... I'm hoping I can get through this thing. I haven't thought of it as a big deal or a big problem. I just need to get it as solid as I can before game day, this Saturday, and hopefully I don't have to worry about it much more this season.

I think if we've talked about anything it's that we're not going to approach this as any other week, as any different game. Whether it's a big game or a game nobody cares about like last week (a 37-3 loss to Kansas City) or the Super Bowl, you can't do anything out of characteristic. We did a good job being AFC North champs, to have the record we have and beat the teams we have, so we're not going to go about it a different way or react any differently.