Andrew Whitworth Quotes

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Andrew Whitworth

Profession : Athlete

Birth : December 12, 1981

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

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I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

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No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.

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If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.

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I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.

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At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

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People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

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You see some of these guys that lead in sacks every year, but they only play on third down or only play in certain situations.

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Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.

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I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.

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I love Cincinnati, and I want to be there.

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When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.

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It's cool when the O-line gets the chance to get some notoriety.

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I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.

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Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.

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You see guys that have been in the league for a long time and have taken that opportunity to not only make their game better but to make the people around them better. And to help them know things that maybe you wish you had known.

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I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.

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The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

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As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.

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I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

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