A biography for Blake Bortleshasn’t been written yet.
“I used to cramp so much I actually thought it was genetic.”
“Your resume as a quarterback is what you put on film. I have good stuff and bad stuff and that's what's out there.”
“I don't know how this sounds but my confidence never really wavers with myself.”
“Everyone has their own opinion and they're entitled to voice it the way they want to. It is not going to bother me.”
“It's always on the quarterback. It's on the offense. If you play well, no one would have to get fired and no one would have to get cut.”
“However, we can find ways to win - if it's throwing it 50 times or five times - I'm more than willing to do that and fine with it.”
“I think there's pressure at every position at all times in the NFL.”
“I think I've always had optimism or whatever you want to call it, and each time I go play I expect that I'll go out there and we'll be successful and do a lot of good stuff.”
“Brett Favre was my hero.”
“I think if you look at guys in the past, guys have performed better and had better careers if they were understudies.”
“You talk about teachers having different teaching strategies to reach students. The old-school type is you do everything one way. The new-school type is you form a relationship and learn about a guy, and figure out what pushes his buttons and makes him go.”
“If you're getting blown out every week, you have a lot to work on and a lot to improve.”
“I didn't tell anybody I retired.”
“The Internet is the devil.”
“I just couldn't be more proud to say I played football at UCF, and it was the best four years of my life.”
“My goal is to play quarterback in the NFL for a long time and you can't do that when you don't perform well enough, and I wasn't performing well enough.”
“To take up a ton of money, you kind of limit your team and who they can help you out with and put around you.”
“Everybody talked about how stressful the combine was going to be, how I was going to be throwing to receivers I didn't know and things like that. I approached it with the attitude that I'm a football player. I throw the football. I want to show people what I can do.”
“I enjoy playing the game of football. I think I play it best when it's at its simplest form and I'm just having fun and enjoying the game and really, obviously, we're moving the ball and being successful.”
“Each week presents a new challenge.”