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" It took me years to separate Nick Foles the person from Nick Foles the football player. "

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" I can't do something unless my heart is in it. "

" From the moment you enter the league, everyone wants to slap a label on you - some tidy description of what they think you bring to the game. And more often than not, that tag sticks with you, regardless of whether it's accurate. "

" I just want to thank the good Lord for giving me the ability to play the game I love. "

" If you have to name me starting quarterback to go be a starting quarterback, then I probably have some issues I need to address. "

" Everyone knows I'm sort of goofy. Some guys are really serious when they play. I'm not. "

" My dad was a great athlete growing up, and he could never fulfill his dreams of playing professional baseball. "

" If you think you're going to be a backup, you're going to be a backup. "

" The thing I've always admired about Eagles fans is that it's not fans; it's family. It's generational. "

" In sports, everything is a process. "

" We might be in the NFL, but we still have our daily struggles. "

" You just want to put the ball in play, whether I want to throw it downfield and it's not there, so I check it down, and it's a productive play and let the running back get a first down. Just keep the chains moving. "

" Nobody aspires to be a backup. And although I take great pride in the supporting roles I've played in both Philadelphia and Kansas City, part of me still cringes every time I hear myself described that way. Not only is it limiting and one-dimensional, it doesn't come close to describing who I really am. "

" If you want to be a quarterback in this league or Pee-Wee, you've got to believe, 'Hey, I'm the guy.' "

" Third down is a big thing with a quarterback: pinpoint accuracy, making good decisions. "

" When I was in Kansas City and having a tough time in my career, I decided to go to seminary to continue my spiritual growth. "

" When you're playing in the NFL, you can only do this for a short amount of time. Guys retire before they're 30. If you play forever, you play into your 40s - and you're still a young man with a lot of life left to live. "

" We're all human; we all have weaknesses. "

" I wouldn't be out here without God, without Jesus in my life. "

" You always want to know, What makes a team great? It's the relationships. It's when you take the field, you actually care about each other. And when you care about each other, you play harder, and you trust the guy next to you. "

" It doesn't matter if it's first-, second-, third-, fourth-, fifth-string snaps - any time you get a snap and get to go out there and practice, you build a database of information. "

" I have amazing teammates, amazing coaches around me, and all I have to do is go play as hard as I could and play for one another, play for those guys and not look at the scoreboard, not look at the time. "

" When you're dropping back and everything's going on, part of you wants to force it, but you have to make the right decision and not force the ball and sometimes throw it away. "

" There's always going to be a lot of distractions in the NFL - that's just how it is; it's on the biggest stage - but really focusing on what I have to do now to help my team win, help me be at my best physically when I'm out there on the field and mentally, because that will ultimately help my team no matter what role I'm playing. "

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" I love my family, love being with them, and that's what I stick to. "

" Coach Pederson is the one who drafted me. He was the only coach who flew down to Texas and worked me out. I was only worked out by one team, and that was by Coach Pederson... the Philadelphia Eagles took a chance on me. "

" You keep adding things to your game. You never want to stay the same. You want to be consistent. "