A biography for Ryan Fitzpatrickhasn’t been written yet.
“You've just got to continue to prepare in the film room, continue to prepare running the game plan and doing everything on the practice field and hope that it translates.”
“There's a lot of things you can't learn unless you actually experience it.”
“For all the ladies out there, I'm taken. I'm sorry.”
“Football is not a game about numbers. It's about wins and trying to go out and play better than the other team.”
“Unfortunately, football's hard and you're going to have bad games sometimes.”
“My wife is also from Harvard and we do have some family in the Cambridge area so we try to make it back at least once a year. We really enjoyed our time out there.”
“The biggest thing in this game - to last - is to have belief in yourself. Because when the owner stops believing in you and the GM stops believing in you and the coaches stop believing in you, sometimes all you have is yourself.”
“I'm just trying to be the best version of me that I can be.”
“For me, always being ready and knowing that when I have my opportunity, I have to go out there and do my best. My whole career has been like that. I try to do my best in putting my focus in what I can control.”
“I've got to take advantage of every day.”
“You never know what's going to happen in the NFL. That's probably the thing I've learned most - expect the unexpected and go from there.”
“All I want to do is go out there and win.”
“Knowing who I am as a player and working on my deficiencies, communication is something I try to pride myself on.”
“When you play quarterback and the offense doesn't play well, a lot of that is because of the quarterback. You're going to receive the criticism.”
“There are so many things that I've just continued to get better at in my game.”
“Coming to Harvard was an eye-opening experience because there's so much diversity on campus.”
“You feel pressure when other people's expectations are higher than your own.”
“I've been called every name in the book.”
“I'm the Harvard guy everywhere, every day. There are worse things to be called, worse things to be known by I guess.”
“It always helps when you're working out with other people, especially your teammates.”