A biography for Andrew Whitworthhasn’t been written yet.
“If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.”
“There's a lot of veteran players that, honestly, being comfortable where they play is more important. And that's just not me.”
“Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.”
“At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.”
“Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.”
“I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'”
“Mess up and draft somebody at my position, because you are going to sit around and watch him sit the bench. That's always been my mentality. I see it as a challenge.”
“If you're a true warrior, competition doesn't scare you. It makes you better.”
“Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.”
“People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.”
“I don't ever think a day is a perfect day. There's always something.”
“Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.”
“No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.”
“When you get into these NFL rushers - the power, the speed, the bull rush, and all those kind of things - it's just different than college football.”
“As long as I'm here living and breathing, I'm going to be moving.”