Kurt Warner
Kurt Warner
Kurtis Eugene "Kurt" Warneris a former American football quarterback, a current part-time TV football analyst, and a philanthropist. He played for three National Football Leagueteams: the St. Louis Rams, the New York Giants, and the Arizona Cardinals. He was originally signed by the Green Bay Packers as an undrafted free agent in 1994 after playing college football at Northern Iowa. Warner went on to be considered the best undrafted NFL player of all time, following a 12-year career regarded as...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth22 June 1971
CityBurlington, IA
We have to get the ball in the end zone. It's tough to win kicking field goals.
You don't want to be sitting out the game. You want to be out there battling, no question. But at the same time, when those things happen, what do you do? Do you stew on it and pout about it, or do you do everything you can to get back on the winning track?
I want to win some Super Bowls, and so that's really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship,
I want to win. That's the most important thing.
I want to win some Super Bowls, and so thats really my focus, to do whatever I have to do to lead this team to a championship,
It changed my life in an extreme way. I dont know if you could calculate just how much it does [change your life]. There was so much notoriety for me in my first season, and to finish by winning the Super Bowl and get the MVP set my place in history. It cements it and its very special. There is something that comes with it, something everyone recognizes and knows. No one can ever take it away from you.
It's much easier when your team's winning. When your team starts to lose, that's where a lot of these quarterback controversies divide a locker room. The key, as a pro, is to be a pro.
I expected to play well, I expected to lead my team, and I expected to win.
We just made some mistakes. We killed ourselves. It wasn't physical. It was mental. That's the frustrating part. You know physically you match up pretty well with them.
We just gave up too many big, key plays, and it turned on us really quickly, and we weren't able to dig ourselves out of the hole.
I've been here a lot of times when I had everybody in here cheering for me and I don't know if I fed off it, but I definitely know I was focused and feeling good.
I've been in a lot of places where I haven't had offensive lines that can just manhandle guys one-on-one, ... but if you get on the right guy, you pick up the right guy, you give your skill players a chance to make a play, and that's where you're successful.
Everybody expects me to be that quarterback, too,
Yeah, I think, yeah, in New York it was really a chance to showcase what I could still do and try to present myself with an opportunity like here in Arizona, ... It's where I can play the game the way I wanted to and hopefully write my own story.