Chad Pennington Quotations

Byron is one tough guy and he can play through just about anything. I know he will be ready to go on Sunday.

How can you truly know what success is, if you’ve never experienced failure?

That's where the challenge has been. Balancing football and life. Trying not to replay every play in my head while I'm with my family. Sometimes, I've done it well. Other times, I haven't.

I was a college football fanatic, and I wanted to play, not sit on the sidelines. It's tough when you know you're just a project.

I'm a strategic guy. I'm gonna figure out ways to hurt the defense, but it's not gonna be about throwing a ball through a wall.

To me, the quarterback position is about getting your team out of bad things and into good ones.

There's more to me than football. It's just part of my life.

Sometimes I stress too much and don't have fun. If you're trying to be perfect, sometimes it backfires on you.

When I'm decisive, I feel I do a good job.

Have character; don't be a character.

Sitting let me learn what the NFL is all about.

I hate missing practice and I'm happy that I can go through two practices in one day now.

He has superstar stats and he is a superstar, but he doesn't act like a superstar. It has a huge effect on the younger players to see the league's leading rusher carry himself the way Curtis does.

He needs to remember his roots, ... He was a player once. He should know what we go through.

Whatever happened in Albany stays there. It happened so long ago that it's not in my mind anymore.

We talk about our football team complementing each other. The Dolphins put a good drive together, and on offense we needed to step up and put some points on the board. That's what we did.

I was looking forward to this game, playing against a defense that gives us different looks and playing more than a couple of series. It was an opportunity that I squandered.

I think that Coach wants me to lead this team if at all possible. Obviously, as a coach, he has to make the final decision and he has to feel in his heart that he can believe in me and have no doubt that I can help our team win and lead this team. A lot of that has to do with my health.

Pack a lunch and get ready. It's going to be a long day.

My wife was about to kill me after a while. She knew it was important that I was talking to him, but we were talking excessively on the phone.

My plan's to gain some weight and come back bigger, stronger and quicker and to be the complete quarterback that I know that I can be and that the Jets need me to be to be successful.

It feels much better. I'm trying to work through some things and it's just a work in progress. It's a matter of time. You can't be frustrated. You have to keep working and feel comfortable with making the right reads and eventually the throws will come and you'll get all the kinks worked out.

That was probably the first time in three years that I overthrew a receiver and the first time I had an incomplete pass that I really felt good about.

That, ... was my first indication that I had a pretty good feel for the guy.

Well, I'm not where I want to be,

We have a lot of work to do, ... But as long as we keep making progress, we'll be OK

We'll miss Kevin. But that's what the league is all about. Sometimes players have to move on.

There are not too many universities around the nation, no matter what division they play in, that can say they have the support we do as Marshall University football players.

There are going to be plenty of critics, there already have been, and plenty of people who say I can't make it back and I can't do this and I can't do that. That's the way I want it to be because when you do succeed, when you do prove people wrong, it makes it even sweeter.

When you get into the red zone you want to be aggressive, but when you don't have the look that you want to take care of the football, you don't want to squander three points,

When you have a feeling for a receiver, ... you can't put a finger on it. We just have a connection. He's a great receiver and he makes me better.

To be honest, it probably made us better football players in the end, ... We had to go out and learn to work with other people.

You need a big play to give you a spark, ... After that, we didn't have any negative plays on first and second downs.

It was certainly a blue-collar win. Coach (Herman Edwards) has been talking to us all week about playing Jets football, playing fundamental football.

I told him I was proud of him for all the work he's put in. After all the criticism he's been through, to do what he did this year is remarkable. When your organization drafts someone to replace you and you end up being the leader of a division champion, that's just inspirational.

For all you book writers out there, you can't write a better book than that. There's not a better Christmas present that I could have this year than to watch our team go into the playoffs and win the championship.

It just kind of scared me. When you get hit like that, you're like, 'All right, can I move?' That's the first thing you think of. It just kind of scares you for a second.

It's always been a comfort zone knowing you have 28 behind you,

The biggest adjustment for me is, I try to get inside a coordinator's head, ... That's going to take some time still, but I think we accomplished a lot in the preseason.

It'll take some time to get on the same page (with Heimerdinger), ... but we made great strides in the past week.

It's your money going to work. I promise you every dollar gets out.

It was just there, ... It never was a thing where we truly had to sit down and work on it. It just happened. It's really unexplainable.

Things feel really good. ... My whole focus is to get healthy, because when I'm healthy, no one can really argue with the success I've had as a quarterback and us as a team.

I'm proud of the response and I'm not surprised. Robin and I received a lot of support while we were here. People were so generous to us and other players here. Once people find out what it's for, they come through. This is a way to give back to the community. People are interested and want to be a part of helping improve quality of life.

I know when I'm healthy, I can compete with any quarterback in this league and help this team win. To have that scenario next year is pretty exciting for me.

I'm trying not to be to analytical and not too perfect. That's one thing Coach Heimerdinger talked about. Play, and you may miss something, but don't worry about it. Just keep playing the game. That's what he's been working with me on, playing a game and not trying to be perfect on every play.

In the bottom of my heart I felt New York was the place to be. I was just hoping we would come to an agreement where both sides would be committed and share the risks.

I didn't even know about the injury until you told me about it after the game,

Byron is pretty amazing physically as far as the punishment he can take and still respond and try to help his team win games. I know how tough he is. I have seen it for a long time. It takes a lot to get him out of the game.

I feel comfortable and confident enough to where we can go in and execute the offense the way I'm coached to do,

How important a story this is. It's about an athletic resurrection and community's resurrection and the way people embraced Marshall University. Not a lot of people can say they've been a part of that.

A great goal for us would be to not have a losing record,