Emmitt Smith

I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

American Athlete

John Madden

We need to let the referee's sole thing be to protect the quarterback and get those late hits out of there. They even have a stat on television that says 'knockdowns.' Knockdowns means that you knock him down after he throws the ball. The assumption is, if it's legal, we'll make excuses for them.

American Entertainer

Ezekiel Elliott

I'm a great pass catcher. I'm excellent in pass protection, which is the most important thing. You can't play, you can't get on the field if you don't protect that franchise quarterback.

Joel Glazer

Obviously, the quarterback position is an extremely important position.

Sam Darnold

I think the number one job as a quarterback is protecting the football.

Joe Burrow

With any rookie quarterback, the more help you can get the better.

American Football Player

Joe Flacco

What motivates me is being the best quarterback in the world.

Oliver Luck

Quarterback play is important for every level of football.

Tim Tebow

My whole life, my dream has been to be a quarterback.

American Baseball Player

LeSean McCoy

Quarterback is often used metaphorically to mean someone is taking a leading role, similar to the position in football.

Sports Metaphor

The quarterback in American culture symbolizes leadership and often features in movies and TV as a central character.

Cultural Icon

Don't confuse 'quarterback' with 'quarter', which refers to 1/4 of something.

Common Misuse

Even though 'quarterback' originates from sports, its use has extended to business and everyday activities.

Not Sports-Limited

Using 'quarterback' informally indicates someone is leading without an official title.

Informal Leadership

The role of a 'quarterback' outside of sports is often temporary, for the duration of a project or initiative.

Temporary Role

When someone 'quarterbacks' an effort, they are actively involved and making decisions.

Active Leadership

A good 'quarterback' doesn't only lead but communicates effectively with the team.

Communication Skills

As a verb, 'quarterback' is informal and best used in casual or business contexts, not formal writing.

Informal Verb

 Once out first stage burns out, we're going to let that go, we're going to light our second stage. Once we light our second stage then we let that first stage fall back to the ocean, it becomes an ecosystem for the fish. We light our second stage. At this point the spacecraft has very little stability, so we are going to spin it up. We spin it up to about 12 RPM, more or less like a quarterback that throws a nice, tight spiral.

The Curious Life of a...

 The bad ones have information overload. That determines good teams from bad. And now, your I.T. department is just as important as your scouting department, and data-mining is not for nerds anymore. It's also for jocks. Who knew? What would that look like on the field? Well, imagine you're the quarterback.

Chris Kluwe: How...

 Typically, monuments are created to commemorate the achievements of the deceased, but with augmented reality, we can reroute the rules. We started with sports. Colin Kaepernick. He was the starting quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers, and he wanted to use his platform

How augmented reality is...

 and we started winning. For the rest of my career, I would talk to a small group of teammates before games and tell them some form of the same thing. Just live. And even as I got traded twice and replaced by a couple of great young quarterbacks, I stuck with that ethic.

Alex Smith: An NFL...

 and vectors are measurements with direction. For example, when that quarterback takes the snap, he's five yards away, but from where? Back from the line of scrimmage, so the five yards by itself is a scalar quantity. When you add a direction, like five yards deep,

Gridiron physics:...

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Drew Brees Tests His NFL...

 so that everybody can understand what's being said. But more than anything else, I think low-income patients benefit from having a primary care doctor. Mind you, I think middle-class people also benefit from having somebody to quarterback their care.

What the US health care...

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See the Sparks That Set...

 to separate what you can control from what you cannot control, and then doing exercises to focus exclusively on the former. This decreases emotional reactivity, which can be a superpower. Conversely, let's say you're a quarterback.

Why you should define...

 Black athletes for billions of dollars, while diminishing their education, health and safety. Let me start with a bit of history. In November 1984, an undersized quarterback from Boston College named Doug Flutie