The biggest thing is not to lose your confidence and realize you've got to work through those mistakes to yourself a chance to improve.

That's what being a leader is all about. If the other players see you in a non-positive mind set, that affects them. I have to present an air of confidence at all times.

We're still as confident, as optimistic as we ever were. You know we hit a little stumbling block here, but I think it's going to be good for us because we can learn from it.

I'm not an athlete; I'm a quarterback. I don't have great speed, and I can't throw 90 yards down the field. I win games because I've done the mental preparation.

To me, I'm still a 24-year-old kid who just happens to have a better paying job than other kids my age.

My energy level rises but I get calmer, if that's possible. What a lot of people tend to do is get real tight and get all psyched up and take themselves out of their game.

I'm lucky - we're all lucky - to be playing a game for a living.