Carson Palmer
Crowds, I'm not good in crowds. I almost had a mental breakdown, I almost lost my cool at Disneyland one time when the park was closing, and I turn around and saw just a sea of people coming at me and a stroller full of kids.Collection: Cool
You don't have a real rivalry unless both sides are great teams.
You can't win the big game until you win it.
You can make that money off the field that you're missing on the field by doing endorsements with Sleep Number and Nike and Campbell's Chunky Soup and all the other ones you see Dak doing.
I have buddies who say, 'Where are you living ? Wyoming or something? Don't you still have a house in California?' I tell them we live in Idaho, and you can see it on their face and sense it in their voice: 'Um... O... K.'
It's amazing that we can even do this - to use part of the body of someone who has passed on to help someone else walk or run or even keep their dream alive of playing sports again.
I fell in love with having my feet in the water and a fly rod in my hands.
Playing quarterback is a glamorous job. It's awesome. It's everything I dreamed it would be. But after a while, it loses its glamour. Somewhere along those 15 years, it becomes a job. Especially at the end, it became work. Game day was awesome, but all the rest of it was work.
You're judged on Super Bowls, and that's the standard.
You can't just hope you draft well and not go after free agents and you end up in the Super Bowl. You got to go get it.
I actually don't listen to CDs very often. I listen to the radio or if I do listen to a CD, it'll be a mix.
The best part of gameday is when kickoff finally happens. The worst part is going through all warmups and stretching and waiting and waiting for the game.
I'd like to play free safety. It would be fun to read things out and break on the ball. I definitely would not want to play on the defensive line. I wouldn't want to be down there in the trenches.
If I could be anything, it would be a professional basketball player.
I love the preparation, the excitement of game day, the nervousness of game day. But I enjoy the day-to-day stuff. Game day is a great day but I enjoy Mondays and Tuesdays, watching yourself on film, watching the next opponent, getting the game plan.
I've always kind of been even-keeled. I think that's a good trait for a quarterback to have.
I don't like getting into hot cars when it's been sitting outside. You're already sweating and you get into the car and you're profusely sweating.
Everyone talks about the good old days, when guys were tough and quarterbacks got crushed all the time, but back in the day, there weren't defensive ends that were Mario Williams - 6-7, 300 pounds, 10 percent body fat, running a 4.7 40.
The truth of the matter is... somebody is going to die here in the NFL. It's going to happen.
Guys are getting so big, so fast, so explosive. The game's so violent.
The game has changed, the game is getting bigger, faster, stronger, and there needs to be more protection.
Nobody gets hit in college. You get hit onevery single play in the NFL.
In this league you have to throw sidearm sometimes; you're going to have to drop your arm, move while shuffling your feet. You're never going to be set.
The thing with diva receivers is, they're productive. It's not like they're the third-string receiver who catches 40 balls for 612 yards a year.
Fear of failure always drives me.
I don't have to play football for money.
I've spent a number of years hoping and wanting to get somewhere, where an organization is willing to do whatever it takes to win because it's not like that everywhere.
Extra thick skin is something every Bruce Arians' quarterback needs to have because the stuff he says to media is rated G compared to the stuff he says to your face on the sideline and after the game in the locker room and throughout the week.
I love Dak's game. I think he's great.
You can make as much as the top-paid quarterback in the league when you're the Dallas Cowboys quarterback if you do take less.
I cannot stand the Buckeyes, and having to live in Ohio and hear those people talk about their team, it drives me absolutely nuts.
There's a lot of people that care for me and I'm very fortunate for that.
I love the fans in Cincy. I want them to see their dreams and get what they want. They're as loyal as any fans in the country.
Over the years, I've had teammates who decided to hang it up and I would ask them how they knew when it was time to walk away. The answer was almost always the same: You just know.
I love playing. I want to win a Super Bowl.
I enjoy working to prove doubters wrong.
Playing quarterback in the National Football League, getting to the Super Bowl is an incredible challenge.
I'm not a negative person.
I'm not a glass-is-half-empty person.
You can't let one game define you. You just have to move on.
There's nothing like adversity to fuel the fire.
I could throw a million hitches.
At some point, you're going to be in third-and-13 or third-and-9 and you have to throw the ball down the field.
I think it's really difficult for a young team to beat an experienced quarterback like Philip Rivers twice in one season.
Especially after age like 34 or 35, the gym stuff I do not miss.
I do not miss the hours you have to spend preparing for the upcoming season in July, in March, April. I do not miss half my day being in the gym... to get ready to play.
I'm great at retirement. I'm excelling at retirement... I've loved every second of it.
I'm a Hall of Famer at retirement.
I'm a wide-open book. I talk to guys coming out in the draft every year. I'm a wide-open book. I'll give you my experiences. And I'll tell you what I went through. But I would never project on another player that you should do this or you should do that.
I mean that's most guys' dream is to play for their childhood team.