Justin Tucker Quotes

Justin Tucker

Profession : Football Player

Birth : November 21, 1989

You want to see everybody make their kicks, and you hope the best for everybody. But that's just the duality of this league if you're a place-kicker. That's the duality of the position. If you play long enough, you're going to miss one or two.

Justin Tucker

It's always fun to reminisce for a moment. You can only let that happen for a moment and then you have to move on and take care of the task at hand.

Justin Tucker

I think as soon as you determine you do not have anything to improve upon, that is when everything starts going downhill.

Justin Tucker

It's not about me individually being the best or wanting to be the best. It's my teammates and I, it's our coaches and myself wanting to do great things together.

Justin Tucker

Before and after each kicking attempt, I simply thank God for the opportunity he has given me. I ask that my hard work comes to fruition; I ask for resolve and, most importantly, that his name be glorified.

Justin Tucker

It takes a level of technicality to kick a football, and the same is true of music. There is a composure that's required and a confidence that comes with preparation.

Justin Tucker

Going into college, I made a decision after about a year that I wanted to go to class and feel like I wasn't in school. So I started working towards getting myself into the music school. The University of Texas Butler School of Music is a very serious place of study. I had to train just to try out, just to have an audition.

Justin Tucker

This is why we play the game, is to be in big moments like this, to be in championship games, to be able to share these moments with all the people that have been on the journey.

Justin Tucker

We think about these things really specifically, if you send me out there you have a reason for it - because they think I can make a kick. To me it doesn't matter where I just have to hit a good ball.

Justin Tucker

In a game where points win, your leading scorer is probably going to be the kicker. And I'm literally doing the most football thing in football. I'll leave it at that.

Justin Tucker

I don't ever let anybody put that evil on me as saying something as audacious as kickers aren't football players.

Justin Tucker

When you're talking about winning games, the leading point scorer has gotta be included. And Morten Andersen is one of the greatest closers in our game.

Justin Tucker

People want to see the ball moving down the field, myself included.

Justin Tucker

To even be in the conversation of having a kid named after me is wild. It's certainly something I don't take lightly. With that comes great responsibility.

Justin Tucker

We're not playing golf out there where everyone is quiet in your backswing. I usually don't hear what's going on. I'm just locked in and enjoying the moment.

Justin Tucker

In my rookie year during the Super Bowl, I think there we had four minutes and change left in the game and we went out there and knocked down a 38-yarder to put us up by at least a touchdown. That was probably one of the more nerve-racking, but one of the best kicks that we ever went out there and knocked down.

Justin Tucker

That's one of the greatest parts of sports, seeing one guy propel his team to that winning moment.

Justin Tucker

I really try to make it a point to take it one kick at a time.

Justin Tucker

Whenever we're fortunate enough to have a game-winning field goal opportunity - especially a walk-off - I get more nervous after the fact thinking about, 'Man, what if that didn't go the way we wanted it to go?'

Justin Tucker

We play in the AFC North and we play almost every single game outside. This is a tough division to play football in in general.

Justin Tucker