Best quotes by Vince Young
Vince Young
American football quarterback
Vincent Paul Young Jr. (born May 18, 1984) is a former American football quarterback. Young played in the National Football League (NFL) for six seasons. Young was drafted by the Tennessee Titans with the third overall pick in the 2006 NFL Draft, he was also selected to be the Madden 08’ cover athlete.
Young played college football for the University of Texas. As a junior, he won the Davey O'Brien Award, awarded annually to the best college quarterback in the nation. He finished second behind Reggie Bush in Heisman Trophy voting. After the Heisman voting, Young led his team to a BCS National Championship against the defending BCS national champion USC Trojans in the 2006 Rose Bowl, a game lauded as one of the most-anticipated and greatest in the history of college football. Texas retired Young's jersey on August 30, 2008.
He spent the first five seasons of his career with the Titans where he compiled a 30–17 starting record. In his rookie season, Young was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and was named to the AFC Pro Bowl team as a reserve. In 2009, Young earned his second Pro Bowl selection and was named Sporting News NFL Comeback Player of the Year. He later played one year as a backup with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2011 and had offseason stints with the Buffalo Bills, the Green Bay Packers and Cleveland Browns from 2012–2014. In 2017, he attempted a comeback in the Canadian Football League with the Saskatchewan Roughriders, but was released before the season began.
Vince Young quotes by category:
SportTrainingMan, Coach Brown, he's so relaxed. We've seen that guy dancing this week at practice and he's dancing in the locker room. It brings tears to guys' eyes and brings happiness to everybody.
I'm way different than I was last year. You learn something new every year. I learned a whole lot from last season and a whole lot from this season. I'm still learning.
Hard work has paid off a whole lot.
There are a lot of guys who have terrible throwing motions-worse than mine. But they still get the ball downfield. That's all that matters.
People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.
All I have to do is play football now.
I can do whatever it takes to win.
Whatever it takes to get everybody loose, I'm going to do it!
Preparation is the biggest key right now.
I feel like I accomplished everything I wanted to accomplish in college.
I can make things happen when plays break down.
I was never nervous. That's not me, ... Nervousness, scariness, that's not even in our vocabulary.
My confidence level is a tremendous high.
I am in control. What athlete you know doesn't call the shots? I have the final say.
I could have been a Vincent Young y'all know nothing about. I was on the wrong road, and it was a hard, hard time.
I want to someday be in the same position as John Elway, Joe Montana and Steve Young.
I'll forever be a Longhorn.
It's getting crazier and crazier each day. A lot of people think I'd get aggravated, but I just stay with a smile and keep on. It's the life I chose, and you have to deal with it. If not, change what you're doing.
I don't care if I have to run 100 times or pass it 100 times, ... Whatever it takes to win is all that matters to me.
I have a lot of doubters. I use that as motivation.