Jay Cutler Quotations

We were confident all night. We moved the ball well, and our offensive line did a tremendous job.

I got it done without a lot of guys around me. I didn't have All-Americans scattered across the field. I had to adjust. I had to deal with pressure. I had to get the ball off. I think it's going to help me at the next level, having gone through adversity.

But this year has just been a joy so far.

If anyone says we're a bad team, I'll argue with them all day. We have great talent and lots of games left to play.

If it comes down to me leading them in the fourth quarter and putting the ball in my hands, I'll take my chances. I'm an older guy, and we have a lot of new guys. Hopefully, they will listen to me so we won't be on the roller coaster ride that we were on last year. We have to change our state of mind.

He's a fan of mine, so I'm a fan of his.

We lost some guys last year, but we have replaced them with guys that are fired up about playing. That is something we haven't had in the past at Vanderbilt.

He was fired up for this game. He knew that we were going to use him a lot so we could save Erik and Marlon for the rest of the season.

I take chances (on the football field) but I think they're calculated chances. I know what I'm doing.

I think it was pretty close, ... Especially with the end of the season, we had been through some tough losses down the stretch. It was hard to take three years of losing, especially when you aren't used to it. I thought it might be best if I moved on. I took my time and talked to a lot of people, and it's turned out well for me.

I think there was a time last year and the year before when we were down in the cellar. We didn't have a lot of confidence in this team, this system, but we stuck it out and we prepared each week as hard as the week before, ... It's paying off now.

Overall, I thought we may have had the best players.

Part of me definitely wants to go because it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The other part of me wants to stay in Nashville and get together with some people who helped me get to this point.

I think I did everything they (Titans) thought I would do. It's been pretty positive.

It has really been different. It has been crazy, and it will be out of control with LSU coming in. No one ever gives us a chance. It is fun proving people wrong.

It has really been different, ... It has been crazy, and it will be out of control with LSU coming in. No one ever gives us a chance. It is fun proving people wrong.

That's the reason I wanted to step up and throw, to get some of that media attention and ride that wave a little bit.

You'll drive yourself nuts. It's a crazy process. It's a job interview for four months. For four months, you've got to be perfect.

We can't have that kind of stuff, and I let him know it.

Yeah, we'll build Vanderbilt into a good team some day.

Two years ago, I was just running around and throwing it,

When they'd drop passes I'd say something to them right away and then tell them it's over with, pick your head up, we've got more football to play.

We thought our offense would play a lot better. We thought we would score more points.

But now winning makes all the practices and all the hard work worthwhile.

We're the talk of the town, which is fine. ... It's everything everyone wanted it to be, and hopefully we can keep it going.

The defense played awesome, and we didn't help them at all. They were carrying us the whole game. It's unfortunate we couldn't do anything with those turnovers.

This team worked exceptionally hard in the weight room, so it's a tribute to that.

This team is very resilient and they bounce back. I think this team is going to have a great week of practice and get ready for LSU. This game is gone.

This team has stuck together. We're a close-knit family. The coaches have been great, and things are going our way right now.

Vanderbilt really was the only thing I had going that was a D-1 and would give me an opportunity to play quarterback ... so I jumped all over it and never looked back.

Vanderbilt in a bowl would be a great story.

You get to a point in your career, I think, it's not even about money. You're secure. You want to win Super Bowls.

You eat as many vegetables as you can, and try to cut your carbs and your sugar. That's going to make the job of being a diabetic so much easier.

As I get older and maybe a little bit wiser, you realize how much stuff affects your body and what it can do. Cutting out carbs and sweets and trying to eat just proteins and fruits and stuff like that, more natural stuff, is what I have found has had the biggest impact on me.

Diabetes is all about insulin levels and sugar levels and what you put in your body.

Earl had a few, and it's going to happen. I don't expect that from Marlon. I don't say much to those guys. They know I have high expectations of them, and they have high expectations of me to put it on the money. It's just one of those things.

There's a fine line between winning and losing, and you can really get lost in it. But with the losing we've been through in the last three years and all the times we've been in close games, it makes it so much sweeter now.

It was unbelievable. There is so much difference between now, last year, and two years ago. You can't put it into words. Just all the experience, being able to keep your composure and in the fourth quarter being able to deliver the ball when you have to.

Coming out I was a little shaky and a little nervous. The ball was a little hard, but I got into the flow of things and started to feel more comfortable. I started to forget about all the people on the sidelines. But that's what comes with being a quarterback. You have to deal with the pressure.

This is obviously a dream come true. It's a lot of work, and we had a lot of success at Vanderbilt we hadn't had in the past that definitely helped.

There's a little attention and stress, but we're here to do our testing, and we've just got to go out and do it. I'm just thankful to be here right now.

The more you put in your body, the more you have to regulate it with insulin. So later kickoffs, you're talking about breakfast, lunch and a pregame meal, so that's more food you've got to be aware of and what you put in your body. A noon game, light breakfast, a little fruit and some insulin, and I'm good to go.

It says Vanderbilt is an up-and-coming program. Everything is going in the right direction. The players believe that they can win. And really this award honors the rest of the team.

It's an honor to be linked to someone at that level. He's one of the best quarterbacks ever. But I've got a long way to go before that comparison is going to be a reality.

It's the steak I always get when I go there. It's my favorite cut.

It's only throwing. I've been doing that a long time.

It's fun to wake up on Sunday morning. You just want to get right back to work,

The offensive line has played exceptionally well. And with everybody doing what they're doing, it's made it easy on me, ... Everybody's doing what they're supposed to do and a little bit more. We have people who can make big plays, so all I'm really doing is handing the ball off and getting the assists.

The numbers don't really mean anything. We've been in these type of situations before, and we didn't get the job done.

It is the steak I get when I go there.

It's hard enough as a kid these days to feel normal and just try to fit in. To be a diabetic is just a dramatic thing to go through.

It was my decision to make, and I'm sure there were players that expected me to come back,

I've had a good time with these guys. I know their speed and know where they're going to be in their routes, and I know they were going to catch it for me. It was cold, and the ball was real hard. But it was fun. There's been a lot of anticipation up to this point. But now I can just relax and start working out again.

I want to be on a successful team, and I know that paying one or two or three players premium hurts your chances of being able to bring in extra talent.

They weren't 34 to 6 better than us, I can tell you that right now. But sure, we struggled tonight. It's easy to point fingers, but we've got to look at the film. At times we couldn't hold them out, and at times we ran some wrong routes. We'll just have to get back to work.

I'm a fifth-year senior and have been here a long time. I'm expected to handle it. It is part of being a captain and part of being a quarterback and the face of Vanderbilt football.

In any case, we're going to celebrate this win.

I knew it was there. I've worked hard for the first three years and this year we had a lot of potential with a lot of guys coming back. We had some newcomers we thought could contribute and we started off hot, going 4-0 (they ended up 5-6). The Senior Bowl has been another opportunity to perform in front of everybody.

I met with pretty much all the teams that are probably looking to take a quarterback, and some that weren't looking to take a quarterback. I ran well. I threw well. But I was happy to get out of there.

In the fourth quarter, we found ways to lose. Now, we find ways to win. The win at Arkansas gave us momentum, and we built on it.

In the past, I don't think we had enough talent to overcome those mistakes. Now, I do.

Because I don't produce insulin, I have to put insulin into my body, which means that I have a pen with a needle on it. I have it with me. You have to stick it in your thigh, or your arm - a lot of different spots you can put it.

I dream about it every day. If any year is going to be the year, this will be it.

I can do a little bit of everything.

For the most part we're healthy, and that's very important for us,

This has been so much fun. When you get the wins and things actually go right for you, it validates me coming back and all the work this coaching staff has put in,