Tony Romo
Tony Romo
Antonio Ramiro "Tony" Romois an American football quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys of the National Football League. He played college football for Eastern Illinois University. At Eastern Illinois, Romo won the Walter Payton Award in 2002, and led the Panthers football team to an Ohio Valley Conference championship in 2001...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth21 April 1980
CitySan Diego, CA
CountryUnited States of America
You try and work hard and get better each week. I play the game with passion. I enjoy the game. It's a lot of fun when I'm out there. That's the way I play. For some reason, people like that.
You know you are going to go through your ups and downs in this game.
I've played long enough to know that certain games are certain ways. You're gonna throw it less in others, more in others, and just look at what the team needs that day to win a football game.
It's just like high school. If you're a freshman or a sophomore, it's hard to tell the seniors who've been through two, three, playoff games what to do.
The first game of the year is always an in-season adjustment game.
When you're younger, it's about 'How can I get better? How can I become the player that I want to be?' As you get older, it's 'How can this football team improve?' While all along getting better along the way.
I think my best years are ahead of me and that's exciting.
Fame is fleeting. That stuff comes and goes. You know, as soon as I play poorly ... you won't be doing this interview--you'll be interviewing the next guy.
The Leftovers is a great basketball book that shines a light on what true competitors can overcome with a solid work ethic.
Everyone runs their own race.
There comes a point in the game where you gotta make a play or you gotta do something to get your team over the hump, and when that time comes you gotta be able to do it.
As a competitor and an athlete, you love that you get to go back and challenge someone, especially the world champs.
I would have loved to have had the start that Tom Brady did, won a couple of Super Bowls early, but I wasn't good enough at the time. I have to get better. You start to understand that all the talk and noise really don't matter. Every quarterback goes through the same thing. You have to keep getting better; your team will keep getting better—and you'll have a chance.
You may have seen have seen me in such places as your local market in a tabloid.