Quotes from Matt Cassel

Competition brings out the best in everybody.

Personally, I always loved the 1 p.m. Sunday games.

At first when I first went to the Chiefs, there was a huge transition from what we had done in New England to a team that was rebuilding.

As long as anybody plays this game, you never master it because there are so many things that are always changing.

You have to go through your reads and you have to make smart decisions because if you start forcing it in to double coverage you will get into bad habits and that is when bad plays happen.

Any time you can come down and score on your first drive, that's what you're trying to accomplish.

You never know from week to week how one team is going to attack you versus another team.

I was in New England in 2007 for Spygate.

From one week to the next, everything changes from who you're playing to the defense's scheme. You just try to build on the things that you did well and correct the things that you did poorly in the game; then, move forward from there and hopefully continue to get better and better and better as you move forward.

I don't think there's anybody that puts more pressure on himself than I do.

I think that's the genius part of what the Patriots do: They go above and beyond in identifying the issue and doing whatever they can to make sure it doesn't wreck the offensive plan.

There are times when the criticism is something you deserve as a quarterback, and there are times when the people doing the criticizing don't know what they're talking about.