Quotes from Andrew Whitworth

Joey Porter is not one of the people I have respect for. His unprofessionalism is ridiculous.

You learn the most by listening and so, to me, always just listening, always just paying attention and finding out what it is that people see in somebody like them. You find those things, and you try to figure out how to fit them into who you are, who you want to be, and how you want to lead.

My mentality is always to seek perfection, and you'll find that if you can get somewhere close to it or in the vicinity of that, that's good.

I want the young guys to say, 'How old is this guy that's blocking me every play?'

The bottom line is the best way to lead is to play well.

I love Cincinnati, and I want to be there.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

At the end of the day, who you are as a man is more important than who you are as a football player.

I've got two contracts in my life. One, with my wife because we're married. And, two, I've got a contract to protect Andy Dalton. I'll do both of those to the best of my ability.

If you went and found my draft bio, I wasn't supposed to play left tackle, and I sure as hell wasn't supposed to play it for 12 years.

As I say, 'Every tackle's nightmare is third and long.'

Being a mentor and a leader, I've always urged guys, if you're ever allowed to be a free agent, to take advantage of that opportunity.

Most tall golfers don't have a lot of success. You have trouble getting steep on the ball too much. Stance, posture, all those things can be bad.

Leadership is a position where you want to create the opportunity to inspire people to walk along beside you, not listen to what you say.

It's our country. I have a lot of pride in it and the flag and what that's about and all the people who fought for it.

Every team, in some sense, plays dirty. The game of football is dirty.

I'm a technician. It's like that in football and the same way in golf. I want to try to find a way that I can swing the club properly. Over the years, it's getting better and better.

I've always been known for speeding up the tempo. To me, that's just the way you play the game - aggressive. There's no time to rest. You rest on the sidelines.

People fought hard for freedoms; they didn't fight hard for one mentality. If you really talk about what the country was founded on and what those people are protecting who went to war and fought these wars and give us our freedoms and are fighting for our freedoms, I think you have to really ask yourself what is involved in freedom.

Freedom is a part of protest as well.

Leadership, to me, is about the ability to have people want to hear what you have to say. People want to be around you, people want to believe in what you tell them, and they feel good when they walk away from you about who they are and what they're doing.

I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton.

No matter what job you have, you're in control of your attitude. That, to me, is my biggest focus every day - being on the energy bus.

I think the way to maximize not just your leadership but your ability to influence your team is whatever you can do that helps the team perform at a really high level.