Matt Cassel

“I always look forward to playing.”

“You can work on routes all day in practice but in the game what it comes down to is if somebody is open or not. You kind of go through your progressions and go through it that way.”

“Goal line is goal line. You go down there and it's the grit and grind of the game.”

“When I go home, I love to play the 'Tiger Woods' game with my brothers. It's always fun to sit there for a few hours and play.”

“I love the Patriots. I love this organization.”

“I think that for a lot of young quarterbacks, sometimes it's difficult to get thrown into the fire quickly because from my experience, either you learn how to be a professional from the veteran players.”

“I don't read the paper.”

“You have to go through your reads and you have to make smart decisions because if you start forcing it in to double coverage you will get into bad habits and that is when bad plays happen.”

“It's just part of the NFL. There's going to be moving parts constantly. There's going to be roster changes. There's going to be coaches going somewhere else.”

“The weather is the weather. You have to deal with whatever is out there.”

“I was in Minnesota in 2014 when Adrian Peterson was suspended. In that situation, we were about to play the Patriots when his suspension came out the Friday before the game.”

“Even if you're in a backup role, you've always got to prepare yourself.”

“Honestly, I have no ill will toward Kansas City or anything that happened here.”

“I'm not trying to be Tom Brady. I'm just trying to be Matt Cassel.”

“I am just saying people can be successful even though they might not be well known.”

“You never want to lose but it happens in the NFL.”

“Every rep I can get is valuable.”

“All you can ask for in this game is an opportunity.”

“I can't understand for the life of me why people would cheer when somebody gets hurt. I guess that is the sick world that we are sometimes in.”

“I was in New England in 2007 for Spygate.”