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I loved the expectation that every year we were going to the Super Bowl.

I loved playing Dallas.

I loved playing Green Bay.

My dad's an old football player.

To play 18 years as a pro and have a great college career, it's awesome.

BYU I think had a philosophy of nameless, faceless athletes for the greater good of BYU which is fine. We all did our thing and we're grateful for it.

I don't want to look like I'm money-hungry.

My wife hates football, and my kids don't really care.

I've put football behind me.

I never asked to be the highest paid player in sports.

I had worked hard my entire career to establish myself as a leader. But I wasn't a leader until I was perceived as one.

You become a leader in times of trouble. Leaders emerge when things don't go well. When everyone else starts pointing fingers, a leader takes responsibility.

The demands of excellent NFL quarterbacking I always said took every piece of me, emotionally, physically, mentally, spiritually. It was like it just took it all, and I think that was what was so energizing about it and unreplicable.

I played 18 seasons. That's a lot. There is some that played more. Brett Favre I think played a couple more. There is a few. There is a few guys that played more, but not many.

I always likened retirement to falling off a cliff, and then you have to kind of brush yourself off.

You don't know the demons people deal with, and you just have no idea.

You can play with a brain that is injured - you can't play with an injured knee. That's the problem.

I got good grades. I played sports.

Football, no one wants to ram into people. It's not human nature. You have to have a lot of incentive to ram into somebody to benefit others.

No one will ever say Dwight Clark was selfish.

In 2010, my kids came home telling these ridiculous stories about me they heard from school. I realized my kids didn't know my story, and they were hearing it from the goofballs at school.

I grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut.

I always say football is very unnatural sport. Nobody loves to just ram into people.

My favorite player I ever played was Reggie White. He played so ferociously. What I loved about playing against him was the millisecond you went down, he became your friend and would ask, 'How's your family?' In a way that could feel weird and awkward.

I went to law school.

I'm telling you, studying for week to week in the NFL, and memorization, and reflexive recall... you have to drive it into your brain so far.

Success is really about expertise.

Third and 10 down by four at Lambeau Field in the drizzling rain... two minutes left. There's nothing like that.

If I could have my kids be great when the lights are on, whatever the moment is, to be accountable and then fix it, they're going to be fine.

Most young quarterbacks are on the field because their team stinks.

The truth is that in the NFL, the job is to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the job.

If you're playing for 10 or 15 years, you can't every week run six option plays. It can be around. It can be a part of the game, but sooner or later you've got to deliver the ball from the pocket. That's the game. Now, if the game changes, and it's proven a championship can be won from the pistol spread, then I'm wrong.

Scrambling, when no one's around, getting down, getting out of bounds, taking a glancing blow, those are all fine. You can do that all day long.

The pistol isn't going to go away, but the job in the long run is going to be to deliver the ball from the pocket.

The scary thing is I took 12 years of French, and I can barely say, 'My name is... ' And that's not because of the concussions.

I don't regret any of the places I went in football. Everything gave me an experience or memories that I'll have forever. We had more success in San Francisco, but it was a great time everywhere. I always had fun.

You have to take certain truths. One truth is that to have championship success in the NFL you have to learn to deliver the ball from the pocket.

So the truth is, if there's a lesson to be learned from mobile quarterbacks, it is deliver the ball from the pocket, which demands mastery of the data that is involved working in the pocket, which is, 'I know everything about everything.'

If you exhaust every play out of the pocket, what happens is you find more opportunities.

There's a negative effect when you run around without exhausting everything that happens with the play call.

It's so exhausting in the pocket taking shots when you know I can go. I don't want to take that shot and maybe make a bigger play. To dedicate and discipline your mind that 'I have to find a way, that's the only way I can learn... ' That's the challenge.

I can't imagine as a rookie actually playing good football. I went through it.

There's some glory years, where if you play long enough and you've figured the game out, and physically you're still healthy enough, there are some years in there where you can really be productive. And those are fun years.

I think Tom Coughlin is an amazing motivator. When you look at his personality, you say, 'Oh, I don't know about that.' But there's some ability he has to laser-focus a football team when it's most important. He seems to be a real valuable asset, kind of Knute Rocke almost.

Most people have an off switch and they choose when to go all out.

When you play quarterback in San Francisco, not much goes under the radar.

While it's great for a quarterback to have athletic ability, his goal is to get the ball out of his hand, orchestrate the offense and not allow his ability to stand in the way of the offense running efficiently.

I'm willing to share my experiences with any young quarterback.

My biggest problem when I was younger was trying to balance my ability with what the team needed me to do to officially run the offense.

Over time, I learned that how a quarterback moves the chains and leads his team to touchdowns is about as important as whether he actually does it or not.

When I played for the 49ers, we loved to see man-to-man defense. I could get the ball quickly to the receivers.

The best West Coast coaching job I've seen was when Mike Shanahan left the 49ers, became the head coach in Denver and made it available to John Elway.

Donovan McNabb has great, fast feet and has learned to lock them in to run the Eagles' offense effectively.

If quarterbacks learned the West Coast offense in college, oh man - it would make a huge difference.

In the NFL, you're always facing an obstacle.

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