Alex Smith Quotes

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Alex Smith

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 7, 1984

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.

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When I graduated from Utah, I was headed into the biggest job interview of my life, the NFL Draft.

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At the combine and at my workouts, I tried to be the perfect player. I tried to promote my strengths and conceal my weaknesses, and on paper, I kind of succeeded: I was the first pick in the draft. And with that, I inherited this big shiny trophy that I carried around, and it had one word engraved on it - anxiety.

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There are so many good things, great things that go on in this league.

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When the guys are playing well around you, you look good.

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You love playing on a national stage - anytime you get these games. The Thursday ones are tough; I have a mixed opinion. I think if you win them, they're awesome because you get another little bye week in there, so to speak. They're tough on the quick turnaround.

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We can never fully plan our future, so don't try.

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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.

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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.

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The quarterback position gets a lot of attention.

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When I got drafted, I was a spread-option quarterback. It was, 'OK, you've got to get under center, throw to the fullback, throw to the tight end. You've got to learn to be a pro quarterback.' And there was a learning curve there, and I did have to learn some of that.

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I definitely grew up a Chargers' fan.

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As a quarterback, you've got a huge responsibility: You're touching the ball every single play. You have such a big impact on deciding the game, just in your decision-making and how you are with the football and your fundamentals.

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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.

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I fast all the time - daily. It's such a counterintuitive thing because, my whole life, I've been training to get bigger.

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The longer you play, there's always going to be naysayers.

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You only have one brain. There's no replacement surgery for that.

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Instincts and fundamentals take over sometimes.

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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.

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That's a special time, to get drafted.

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