Daunte Culpepper quotes

[Finole]

I posted this in the Brady or Culpepper? thread, and thought it deserved a thread of its own. If anybody has any other quotes about Culpepper, by Culpepper, or having anything to do with Culpepper, let's hear 'em...

"He has it all. I thought years ago that he's one of the best players in the NFL. I don't think he gets enough credit. The Vikings are in every game, regardless of the defense, because of Daunte Culpepper. Daunte Culpepper has driven his team to be better than it actually is."
-Phil Simms

"Daunte Culpepper is to the Minnesota Vikings what Brett Favre has been to the Green Bay Packers, what Peyton Manning has been to the Indianapolis Colts, what Tom Brady has been to the New England Patriots, or what Joe Montana was to the (San Francisco) 49ers. I can't think of any more of a supreme compliment than that."
-Joe Theismann

"He’s a quarterback’s quarterback, a true field general. He knows how to run a team."
-Dennis Green

"The perception might be that Moss was the team leader. But as a team, we would look at Daunte as the leader."
-Vikings defensive end Lance Johnstone

"He’s the best I’ve ever seen, and I played with Terry Bradshaw. I saw Dan Marino in high school."
-UCF head coach Mike Kruczek

"You know how you can tell the quarterback makes great strides? Look at how he spreads the ball to other people. Understanding where people are is more than half the battle, and Culpepper gets it."
-Sean Salisbury

"He has the best throwing motion that I’ve seen since maybe Dan Marino."
-Hall of Famer Joe Namath

"I consider Peyton Manning. He will continue to be a star in the league for many years. I think Daunte Culpepper, in time, will be a good player because he has so much talent, but that will be a learning process over many years."
-Hall of Famer Dan Marino (when asked a few years ago who of the young NFL quarterbacks he liked the best)

 

[Finole]

Here are some from the man himself...

I would like to play it all: receiver, running back, linebacker, nose guard, cornerback, and safety. I just love the game, and it would be fun to look at the game from those other aspects, especially on the other side of the ball. I think you need that attitude where you just need to get it done, and I have that attitude. That just get it done attitude where I can play anywhere.
-Daunte Culpepper, answering the question of what position he would play if he wasn't a quarterback

"I'm just playing football, man."
-Daunte Culpepper

"Each year they pay you to play is a gift.
-Daunte Culpepper

"When I am ready to hit the field this year, wherever it may be, I plan on being better than ever and enjoying the ride."
-Daunte Culpepper

"I don't worry about stats. The only thing that matters is winning."
-Daunte Culpepper

"Oh yeah, I'll be ready."
-Daunte Culpepper, from a sideline interview during the Carolina pre-season game answering the question "Will he be ready to play opening night?"

And I just couldn't resist this one...

Joe Montana, Troy Aikman, Doug Williams, Dan Marino… guys like that. Those are the guys who I've tried to pattern myself after. My favorite player of all time was Charlie Ward. When he was at Florida State, he was phenomenal. When it came to managing a game, he was great.
-Daunte Culpepper

 

[TotoreMexico]

Good stuff bro!

Go Pepper!

 

[HybridPHIN 23]

Nice !! thanx

"He has it all. I thought years ago that he's one of the best players in the NFL. I don't think he gets enough credit. The Vikings are in every game, regardless of the defense, because of Daunte Culpepper. Daunte Culpepper has driven his team to be better than it actually is."
-Phil Simms

that's my fav....
all we needed was a guy who can manage the game well and make some plays..... and we got DAUNTE !!!! Man i dunno what alot of us were thinking hoping for Brees when Cpep was dying to get over here.

 

[DolfinDave]

They couldn't respond to those quotes in the Brady vs. Culpepper thread. I don't know how you say Brady has the intangibles and then turn around, read those quotes, and say Culpepper doesn't. That is why it was impossible to argue with those guys.

Anyway. Gotta love that praise. If he can get back to that form as far as being a passer, he may not be able to run like he did, we should be in really good shape offensively. Good stuff Finole.

 

[Finole]

Some recent praise from Danny Boy...

"Daunte is an incredible quarterback."
-Hall of Famer Dan Marino

"He's a Pro Bowl player who still has an incredible future in front of him."
-Hall of Famer Dan Marino

"What he brings is a proven guy who can win games and you can count on."
-Hall of Famer Dan Marino

"Daunte is the kind of guy who can take a game over and have you win that way."
-Hall of Famer Dan Marino

 

[PhinsRock]

Great post, but my fav quotes are the ones coming next season:

"I really screwed the pooch when I let Daunte go, and he went and won a SB for the Dolphins", Brad Childress in March, 2007

"I should have locked him up for the love boat scandal, and thrown away the key", the judge, after Daunte slaughters his Vikes this season.

"Geez, you guys really were right about DC", the Pats fans in the Brady vs. DC thread, after DC helps the Fins beat Pats twice this year and we win the AFC East.

THOSE are the quotes I'm most looking forward to.

 

[enigmatics]

They couldn't respond to those quotes in the Brady vs. Culpepper thread. I don't know how you say Brady has the intangibles and then turn around, read those quotes, and say Culpepper doesn't. That is why it was impossible to argue with those guys.

Anyway. Gotta love that praise. If he can get back to that form as far as being a passer, he may not be able to run like he did, we should be in really good shape offensively. Good stuff Finole.

We couldn't respond? That's cute, seeing that you never addressed the Brady ones. I'll stack my Brady quotes vs. these Daunte quotes any day of the week.

Added Shanahan: "He has the ability to focus downfield with a pass rush right in his face, and there's not a lot of guys who can do that. ... Tom has just gotten better and better every year."
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"The best way to put it is there is no quarterback I'd rather have than Tom Brady," New England coach Bill Belichick said. "His preparation is outstanding. His work ethic is outstanding."
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Also outstanding is Brady's record when the pressure builds to ear-popping levels.

"He's a poster boy for that," Denver coach Mike Shanahan said. "He's played his best games when the pressure's been on the line. He's played at such a high level consistently in tough games. ... You can't say enough good things about him."
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That Brady clearly elevates himself against the toughest opponents in the biggest games is perhaps best demonstrated by his 3-to-1 touchdown-to-interception ratio in the postseason. In the regular season, he's just less than 2-to-1.

Compare Brady's 15 TDs and five postseason picks with that of some of the other recent greats, and you can't find anyone who is as proficient at nailing end-zone passes while committing a minimum of mistakes. Joe Montana's playoff numbers were 44 touchdowns and 21 interceptions, Steve Young's 20-13, Troy Aikman's 24-17, Dan Marino's 32-24 and John Elway's 27-21. Brett Favre stands at 33-26, and Peyton Manning checks in at 15-8.
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"Pressure doesn't really bother him. I think the guy's phenomenal. I really do," said former New Orleans Saints coach Jim Haslett, who is now the St. Louis Rams defensive coordinator. "He makes everything go. I think if the guy is not the best player in the league, he's got to be in the top two or three."

Buffalo Bills safety Troy Vincent said, against Brady, "If you don't pressure him, you have absolutely no chance.

"You don't want (Brady) just looking at your defense and staring you down and looking you over, because 95% of the time he is going to make the right call and put the ball in the right place."

In the prelude to their playoff matchup, Denver linebacker Al Wilson called Brady "definitely the best in the league right now."

"He is always calm and always laid back and relaxed," Wilson said. "You never see Brady panic."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/football/nfl/patriots/2006-07-19-elite-qb_x.htm

Buccaneers CB Ronde Barber:
“I’m going to have to say Tom Brady. Nothing glaringly spectacular about the guy, but he just knows how to play football, he’s calm as heck under pressure, he makes all the throws and he just doesn’t make mistakes. You see other great quarterbacks in this league make a lot of mistakes that lose football games for their teams, and I don’t see that guy doing that.”

“Well, obviously I’d have to say my brother (laughs). But honestly, I think it’s hard for anyone to say that somebody’s playing better than Tom Brady. When you’ve won the Super Bowl two out of the last three years and been as productive as he has been, it’s hard to argue with that. People say Joe Montana was the best ever because he won all those Super Bowls and was cool in all those games and brought his team back. They didn’t say it because he had the best stats or the biggest arm or ran around the best or anything like that. So until somebody does what Brady has done the last couple years, he’s got to be considered the best.”

PFW associate editor Trent Modglin:
“Peyton Manning comes to mind immediately, and guys like Daunte Culpepper I don’t think are far behind. But I always judge quarterbacks based on how they do in the big games. Isn’t that what’s most important in sports? Right or wrong, I think that’s the common element on how athletes should be compared. And so for this, I have to go with Tom Brady for obvious reasons. He has redefined how to handle pressure and dissect defenses.”

http://www.profootballweekly.com/PFW/Features/NFL+Features/2004/question091804.htm

Brady, meanwhile, elevates his game when it matters most. One year after another, he’s turned in his most impressive performances against the toughest teams when the stakes are highest. These performances include a 312-yard passing game in a blizzard in his playoff debut, two last-second Super Bowl-winning scoring drives, two Super Bowl MVP awards, several Super Bowl passing records and a 2004 AFC championship game in which he shredded the league’s top defense on the road, posting a season-high 130.5 passer rating in the process.

http://www.coldhardfootballfacts.com/Article.php?Page=527

"Well, he won in college, and the way he handled himself his rookie year, even though he was a lot of times the fourth quarterback, was good. We had a big rookie class of rookies and free agents and they ran their plays after practice and I thought he did a good job that year of taking control of that group. If things weren't going well or we wanted something done, you could say, `Tom, I want you to take care of this with the rest of these guys' and it pretty well got taken care of . . . Like if one or two rookies were late for the meeting, then we'd tell Tom, `Tell the rest of these rookies that if they're late we're going to move that meeting back to 6 a.m. Let 'em know that.' And after that they were all on time. I don't know how they got there, but they were there."

http://www.boston.com/sports/football/patriots/articles/2004/01/16/the_qb_motto_just_win_brady?mode=PF

Whether he's driving around in his pickup, or unseating The Franchise in New England, or resurrecting an 0-2 team into a probable playoff team, Tom Brady always seems to have that toothy grin on his face, the look of someone who's crashed a party. He knows people are always checking him out. Frame: too skinny. Arm: not powerful. Age: too young. Credentials: a sixth-round pick. So when Brady joins Montana, Young, Baugh and Aikman on the all-time list of quarterbacks to connect on 70% of his passes for four games in a row, that grin reappears, smugly, as if to say, "Told you so."

Maybe we should have seen this coming when Brady started advising Drew Bledsoe on offensive strategies during the preseason. Or when Brady tossed touchdown passes of 91 and 60 yards on consecutive plays against the Colts in his fourth career start. Or when Pats coach Bill Belichick, a man who usually schedules exactly one smile every other month, started grinning like it was Christmas when chatting about his young QB. Sure, running back Antowain Smith has rediscovered his career, and a small-fry offensive line has been better than anyone thought. But the lanky second-year quarterback, the one who entered the season with one completion in three career passes, is the reason the Pats are thinking January.

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"It doesn't matter whether he's right or wrong," wideout Troy Brown says. "People listen to him. He gives you a look that makes you know if you do what he tells you, it'll be fine."

http://espn.go.com/magazine/vol4no26brady.html

The success he's had, at Michigan and at New England, he largely attributes to being one of the guys. That's a quality your Elways and your Montanas excelled in. And I believe it. You can see it in the way his teammates played for him and the way the Patriots played as a team.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/si_online/news/2002/04/09/silver_brady/

 

[enigmatics]

"I am proud to be a part of this team," Bledsoe said. "This whole season has been about playing as a team. I know my role, and I do my part to support my team. ... My hat goes off to Tom Brady."

So does the hat that belongs to three-time Pro Bowl safety Lawyer Milloy.

"Tom," he said, "is the reason why we are here."

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Said Patten: "You can't say enough about that kid. He has a tremendous amount of confidence. He has led this team. Maybe he doesn't have the most impressive statistics, but it doesn't matter. The kid knows how to win. He knows how to motivate other players."

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/super/2002-02-04-brady-mvp.htm

"Above any way he throws the ball, his biggest asset is he knows how to lead men," Fauria said. "If he was in the Army, he'd be a general. He'd be the guy leading the troops, but he wouldn't just lead them, he'd be on the front lines with them. He'd go fight himself and be in front of everybody."

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The players and coaches in the locker room said that may be where Brady excels most -- he just knows how to win, and how to convey what he needs to convey to motivate his teammates. The kinds of attributes that never see space on a stat sheet other than the most important line: wins and losses.
"A team usually takes after its coach, and that's the way Brady is," center Damien Woody said. "He's a fiery guy. But in pressure situations, he's as calm as anybody I've ever seen. That really sets him apart from a lot of other quarterbacks."

 

[Lester]

http://www.usatoday.com/sports/nfl/super/2002-02-04-brady-mvp.htm

Keep your man love for other teams quarterbacks to yourself please. There already was a thread for who is better.

This thread is to pump us up about Cpep.


Who's got some more quotes about "our player?" Keep em comin!

 

[enigmatics]

Keep your man love for other teams quarterbacks to yourself please. There already was a thread for who is better.

This thread is to pump us up about Cpep.


Who's got some more quotes about "our player?" Keep em comin!

When my argument in another thread is called out in this thread, sorry bub, I'm takin' over.

If I've got man love for Brady, then what do you call this thread? Give me a break.

 

[phinphan11]

Charlie Ward?!? Gimmie a break.... :shakeno:

 

[jnobes7]

brady is better, culpepper is cooler, and who cares about the patriot fans who have no heart and showed up when they won... they never really existed they came from the red sox because they won first.

 

[Lester]

When my argument in another thread is called out in this thread, sorry bub, I'm takin' over.

If I've got man love for Brady, then what do you call this thread? Give me a break.

I admit it I love Daunte Cullpepper! Not because he is the best but because he is our QB (and is not fiedler,feely,frerrote):D

 

[enigmatics]

I admit it I love Daunte Cullpepper! Not because he is the best but because he is our QB (and is not fiedler,feely,frerrote):D

............that's great..........I love that we have him too.........