Joe Burrow

"Well I came here to play. I didn't come here to sit on the bench for four years. I know I'm a pretty good quarterback. I want to play somewhere."

"Excited to be playing in Death Valley next season. Ready to get to work."

"I enjoy getting hit sometimes. It makes me feel like a real football player instead of a quarterback. People can look down on quarterbacks if they're not taking hits."

"All of my teammates have supported me and welcomed me with open arms, a kid from Ohio coming down to the Bayou, and welcoming me as brothers. It's been so awesome."

"I want to thank the Heisman people for a great weekend. Thank you for allowing me to be here as well as my family."

"I'm just so thankful for LSU and Ohio State. Playing at two of the best programs in the country. Great coaches both places."

"I tried to leave a legacy of hard work and preparation, and loyalty, and dedication everywhere I go. And, I'm surrounded by such great people that make that so easy. Great strength coaches. Coach [Mickey Marotti] is in the audience, [he's] my strength coach from Ohio State, and Coach [Tommy Moffitt] is watching from home. And, they've made me a great person and a great player and so much better because of them."

"Coming from southeast Ohio it's a very impoverished area and the poverty rate is almost two times the national average. There's so many people there that don't have a lot and I'm up here for all those kids in Athens and Athens County that go home to not a lot of food on the table, hungry after school. You guys can be up here, too."

"I'd like to thank Louisiana, the entire state. Like I said earlier, [I'm] just a kid from Ohio coming down and chasing a dream. And the entire state has welcomed me and my family with open arms and invited us in to be native Louisianans. I've learned to love crawfish and gumbo. During crawfish season, Coach O made sure we have pounds and pounds and pounds of crawfish during our year."

"So thank you to everyone, everyone here. There's so many people that I should thank and unfortunately, I just don't have the time, but those people know what they mean to me and my family. So when I lift this trophy again it's for LSU, Ohio State, southeast Ohio and all of Louisiana. Thank you."

"This was a long time coming. Kind of speechless right now. This was fun."

"Whoever wants to pay me money to play the game of football, I'll play for 'em. It doesn't matter to me."

"I've been watching the draft enough years that I know crazy things have happened. I've watched people on camera slip, and then the camera stays in their face and all that stuff. I'm keeping everything on the table. Honestly, I expect to be No. 1, but I'm not positive about it."

"The black community needs our help. They have been unheard for far too long. Open your ears, listen, and speak. This isn't politics. This is human rights."

"I'm not into the whole politics thing. I'm passionate about what I believe in. To me, that's racial inequality. Socioeconomic inequality. To me, that's not politics, it's human rights. It's giving the same opportunities to people regardless of their skin color or social status. Whether it's racial or socioeconomic or just people out there not given the same opportunities, I think being in our position it's our responsibility to help those kinds of people."

"Yeah. You know, it was good on the sideline. We were struggling a little bit, so everyone was a little frustrated, but they were positive conversations and there was never any negativity."

"There was no feeling sorry for myself. It was, 'Let's figure out how fast I can get the surgery so I can start my rehab.' And then get it going."

"With my knee, it felt the same. But I tweak my throwing motion every offseason and tweak my base. It was actually kind of beneficial for me, because I really started from the beginning and was able to refine some things that needed refining."

"Just getting my hips stronger through my rehab has gotten a ton more velocity on my ball. I've been very happy with that."

"Two-and-a-half years ago, I didn't know if I was going to be a starting quarterback anywhere in college. And now, sitting where I'm at, I've gone through a lot of adversity that's helped put me in the position I'm in. This is just another bump in the road that I have to overcome. And I'm confident that I can, and I'm confident I've done it the right way so far."

"We knew that they were gonna be jacked up for us to come in, and expecting to beat our ass. But we were ready for it. Playing in the SEC definitely, definitely helped. Gets way louder in the SEC than in any of these NFL stadiums."

"This is the NFL. This isn't peewee, this isn't high school where you go out and run up the score. You play until the final whistle. I don't care what the score is. We've been in spots where teams go out and do that to us. They did it to us last year. No sympathy from me."

"I didn't think it was a necessary comment. I wouldn't say I was offended by it. I mean, I'm in year two. Who knows what's going to happen down the road? But I didn't think it was a necessary comment"

"We're still a healthy team, which not a lot of people can say at this point in the season. We've been lucky as far as injuries and COVID-19. We're doing a great job with our COVID protocols. Fortunately, there's not a ton to do in Cincinnati, so nobody's going out to clubs and bars and getting COVID every weekend."

"Everyone knows that meme. F-it Ja'Marr's down there somewhere. I'm just going to throw it up to him; he's going to make a play."

"It's exciting for us to see the Bengals in the news a lot. Growing up nobody talked about the Bengals too much. It's exciting for us, exciting for the city that people are starting to realize we're a really good team and an exciting team as well."

"I didn't do much for about a week and then I was back at it. I'm not the kind of guy that wants to take a month off, sit on the couch, watch TV and get fat. I'm happier when I'm working out and that's what I do for fun, so we got right back at it."

"You don't really want to talk [trash] to me … [The Ravens] talk. I love that. [The score] was a lot to a little [in both of the Bengals' wins over the Ravens last season]. I threw for 520-something in the second one and I threw for 400-something in the first one. … Yeah, I love playing the Ravens. They like to talk. I don't start the talking. But if somebody pokes me, I can talk a little bit."

"We were gonna smoke all the cigars in the locker room. And we started smoking them and the cops come in because I guess you're not allowed to smoke inside or whatever. And they start trying to arrest people in the locker room. Yeah. After we won the national title. We're like, 'What's going -? C'mon.' This was in Louisiana. We played in New Orleans for the national title. They were trying to (arrest us). And then I think they finally realized like what are we doing?"

"The window's my whole career. Everybody that we have in that locker room, all the coaches we have. Things are going to change year-to-year, but our window is always open."

"That's our standard now. We're going to celebrate it every single time we do it. We're going to smoke our cigars, wear our T-shirts and hats. We expect that every year."

"He didn't want the red carpet. He wanted football. He didn't want none of the recruiting process, none of that."

"The vast majority of fans I encounter have an inflated impression of Joe Burrow. He was good in moments last year, but wildly inconsistent, and frankly very poor against good competition."

"As recently as this summer, Joe Burrow was an NFL draft afterthought. Following a forgettable junior season in 2018, the LSU quarterback was considered to be at best a fifth-round pick. One prominent scouting service ranked eight senior QBs above Burrow in the 2020 class—and that didn't include underclassmen like Georgia's Jake Fromm or Alabama's Tua Tagovailoa, who Burrow may face off against on Saturday. As a physically limited QB with average production as a starter, there was little expectation that Burrow would turn into anything more than a late-round project and potential backup. Well, let's just say a lot has changed in three months."

"Joe Burrow...Best season of QB play that we have ever seen...Just incredible"

"Take it easy on that cigar, boy."

"He definitely checks off a lot of boxes early on in the evaluation process."

"He's got natural pocket feel. He feels it. It seems like he never takes his eyes off down the field. He extends the play really, really well. He's a lot faster than you might assume when you see him running away from all those SEC guys. He's got incredible upfield accuracy. The ball hardly ever hits the ground in a game, which is rare. He just naturally puts the ball in places where those guys can make plays."

"Talk about the right man for a desperate franchise. Burrow has statement games against the longtime power players in the AFC North, Pittsburgh and Baltimore, winning at Heinz Field and at M&T Bank Stadium in the first seven weeks of the Bengals' resurgent season. On Sunday, he riddled the Ravens for 416 yards, including an 82-yard TD to the hottest rookie on the planet, Ja'Marr Chase. Boy, is Burrow going to be fun to watch over the next few years."

"Like I said last week, Davante Adams, he's one of the top two receivers in the league, and he's not No. 2. And Aaron Rodgers is a Hall of Fame quarterback, and I don't think we're ready to buy a gold jacket for Joe yet."

"Joe's my guy. There's no bad blood between us. But Joe's just got that swagger about him that when you play against him it's hard to just sit there and be cool with him. There's an edge about him that gets everybody else fired up."

"Style. It's how you tell the world who you are, and what you're about. It's what makes you … you. My guy - Joe Cool. It's all about that quiet confidence. Led his cats to the big game last year. Now they're working their way back into form."