Ryan Fitzpatrick

I feel like I keep progressing.

Harvard has plenty of people that are way more important than football players.

What a humbling experience, being an NFL quarterback.

Any time I see Kansas City on the schedule, especially when it's an away game, you start to think about the experience of playing in Arrowhead and how difficult it is to come in and play with the noise and how great those fans are.

I've been called every name in the book.

That's what I've always tried to do. I've always tried to prepare the same. I've always just tried to keep the same routine throughout the season and go out there and try to be consistent on Sundays.

You've gotta come to work - regardless if you're 6-2 or 2-6 - and put your work in, just try to have the same spirit and go about your business the same way every day.

I've been through a lot. I've had so many ups and downs in my career. I think a lot of it is you just have to be the same guy every day.

It's hard when you let people down.

For us as players, revenue sharing, getting a larger percentage of the pie, is important, but also the overall growth of that pie is important.

I feel like I've gotten better every year.

I've got to take advantage of every day.

I've seen a lot of things and I've experienced a lot of things.

There are so many high-highs and there are so many low-lows in this game.

I want to be in the playoffs.

You feel pressure when other people's expectations are higher than your own.

I don't see myself being able to stay away from football.

I'm not gonna throw a Ryan Leaf bullet, but I've got a good enough arm, where I think it'll turn some heads and keep them interested.

That's one of the things with a championship-caliber team, is how it deals with injuries.

Any way that I can help the Harvard football program and Harvard is great.

Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.

At Harvard, I grew up a lot in terms of being able to deal with different types of people because where I grew up in Arizona, it's predominately white and predominantly Mormon families, so there's not a whole lot of diversity.

I've had to work hard my whole life to gain what I have, and that's why I have such a fun time doing those things that nobody likes. Like squatting or hang cleans or getting up in the morning, because I think that I realize in the end what it's going to do for me and what it has done for me in the past.

I wasn't born this super, superior athlete.

Squats and hang cleans. I love them. You can just feel yourself getting bigger and better.

I have enjoyed every single step of the journey that I've been on.

I've had so many ups and downs in my career. When it's going good, you learn to enjoy the ride.

Competition definitely brings out the best in you.

As you get older, life gets more complicated.

I know myself so well. So I know if I'm not confident in the play, it's not going to be a good play.

One thing that I've learned about myself is I have to trust what I see. And that maybe sounds silly, but there's things that I feel or see during a game that, you know, I used to explain it as I have an angel on one shoulder that's telling me to run the play and the devil on the other shoulder that's telling me really what I should do.

I've never been fast, but I can move well enough to do what I need to do.

My normal is craziness - moving around and jumping from team to team and having to get used to different guys in a short period of time.

I would have loved to stay in Buffalo and all that.

When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.

You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.

I'm getting better as a quarterback. A lot of that is an understanding of the game, of myself, of who I'm playing against.

Unfortunately, football's hard and you're going to have bad games sometimes.

I feel like I have been a quick study in terms of picking up the different offensive schemes I have been exposed to. I think I offer a dependability and dedication that is very important to being successful.

My career has been so different than most guys. I've kind of bounced around and always, one way or another, ended up in the starting lineup. So I would say my career has been very unique.

Absolutely I'd be happy with my career.

When I got drafted, I just wanted a jersey. Once they gave me the jerseys, like, I was just hoping that they kept me on the team.

I've been a lot of places and worked with a lot of different guys. High draft picks. Low draft picks.

I'm trying to do the best I can every day.

I play because I love the game.

I play because I love the relationships.

My wife is also from Harvard and we do have some family in the Cambridge area so we try to make it back at least once a year. We really enjoyed our time out there.

I'm the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.

I was a third string guy for a couple of years.

I don't think the day that I was drafted that I expected to be the starting quarterback for the Rams as a seventh-round pick.