Joe Burrow

With any rookie quarterback, the more help you can get the better.

I don't like haunted houses or anything like that.

I couldn't watch 'Harry Potter,' 'Lord of the Rings,' 'House'... I was like strictly a 'SpongeBob,' Disney Channel, Nickelodeon kinda guy.

I'm graduating and I'm 23 years old, so I can do whatever the hell I want.

Every game is decided by one or two plays that teams do or don't make; you've got to make them or else you lose.

The thing about Louisiana food is that it's really good for about three months, but they only know how to make one thing, and they dip whatever they can find in a bucket of oil.

I just want to get drafted to a good team, good organization that is going to maximize my talents.

I have always been a pretty accurate quarterback going back to high school and it is something that I have prided myself on.

My junior year, when I completed 57 percent of my balls, I was very very frustrated in myself.

You gotta put me on a team with LeBron or Chris Paul or someone and I can just spot up in the corner and let them go to work, kick it to me.

Going into my rookie year I expect to play well and I expect to win a lot of games.

Coming in, if you are the No. 1 pick, the team that is picking No. 1 is there for a reason. There are going to be ups and downs - you've just gotta stay steady through the process.

I was scared of everything growing up. I still don't like scary movies.

Whoever wants to pay me money to play the game of football, I'll play for 'em, it doesn't matter to me.

You want to go No. 1. But you also want to go to a great organization that is committed to winning. Committed to winning Super Bowls.

Coming from southeast Ohio, it's a very impoverished area.

I know I'm a pretty good quarterback.

You have to meet with your coaches, see what they're thinking, what you're thinking and meet the middle.

You have to be stern in your voice, because if you are in there wavering and wobbling and fumbling over words, all the guys are going to be like, 'What is this guy doing in here, Coach? Get him out. Get someone else in.'

I'm fairly good at connecting with a lot of different people.

I'm a Southeast Ohio kid.

I just work really, really hard every day, and I think that probably rubs off on people.

I understood it was a poor area when I was young because you're driving through it and you see these low-income homes that I hadn't really seen before. I'd lived in upper-middle-class neighborhoods before we moved to Athens and The Plains. You understand, but you don't really understand the magnitude until you get older.

Everyone's called me sneaky-fast for about 15 years.

Whatever team I go to is going to be a challenge at the beginning and I'm going to have to persevere through it.