Alex Smith Quotes

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Alex Smith

Profession : Athlete

Birth : May 7, 1984

Sometimes when you've only got a few snaps, guys try to do too much and try to make too much happen.

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It's one thing as a quarterback to sit there and warm up. And there's one thing to throw routes. And there's another thing when you drop back in the pocket and, when a guy comes open, to really be able to urgently - bam - all of a sudden. That guy's open; your body has to do what your mind's telling you.

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When I was young, I just tried to please everybody.

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I'm going to play for me and not play for anyone else except my teammates and the guys that matter.

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It is healthy to have competition and intense competition, and then, when you walk away from it, you are still teammates, and you play the same position and that we can still put the team first.

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This is the honest truth: I could absolutely care less on yards per game. I think that's a totally overblown stat.

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If you don't go out there and play winning football, they're going to try and find somebody who can.

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As a QB, it's a team game, and you're all out there in it.

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Dead silence is so much more foreign to me than people screaming at me, good or bad.

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The real football starts in training camp.

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I've been to so many deals with so many of my peers. I hate to say it, but you go, and it's some tournament or big party or dinner, and you don't even know what you're raising money for. It's like, 'Oh, it's for the kids.' Thanks. But what are you doing?

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I think as I've gotten older and the things I've gone through, I'm not as concerned about what everybody thinks.

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I was on some bad teams, and I played bad as a young player, certainly, at times. And that all mounts. Yeah, that all mounts. The perception. Everything that goes into that. And so, yeah, I think to kind of get over the hump of that, to change perception, it can be difficult. It's a tall task. And it takes a long time.

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I've seen a rebuild, and I've seen how quickly things can turn around when guys buy in.

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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.

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I really have fun playing golf.

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This is the ultimate team sport, and I really feel that the quarterback position is the epitome of that.

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That's the great thing about the NFL: A team can get hot and win a championship.

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For anyone that's reached the NFL, especially top picks, you just come from success.

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