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Wikipedia Summary for Aaron Rodgers
Aaron Charles Rodgers (born December 2, 1983) is an American football quarterback for the Green Bay Packers of the National Football League (NFL). Rodgers began his college football career at Butte College in 2002 before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley to play for the California Golden Bears, where he set several career passing records, including lowest single-season and career interception rates. He was selected in the first round of the 2005 NFL Draft by the Packers.
After backing up Brett Favre for the first three years of his NFL career, Rodgers became the Packers' starting quarterback in 2008. In 2010, he led them to a victory in Super Bowl XLV over the Pittsburgh Steelers, earning the Super Bowl MVP. He was named Associated Press Athlete of the Year in 2011, and was voted league MVP by the Associated Press for the 2011, 2014 and 2020 NFL seasons.
Rodgers has led the NFL five times in touchdown-to-interception ratio (2011, 2012, 2014, 2018, 2020); and five times in lowest passing interception percentage (2009, 2014, 2018, 2019, 2020); three times in passer rating (2011, 2012, 2020), touchdown passing percentage (2011, 2012, 2020), and in total touchdowns (2011, 2016, 2020); twice in touchdown passes (2016, 2020) and once in yards per attempt (2011) and completion percentage (2020).
Rodgers is third on the NFL's all-time regular season career passer rating list, with a regular season career passer rating of over 100 (the first to ever have a career rating over 100) while also having had the highest passer rating, the best touchdown to interception ratio and the lowest passing interception percentage in NFL history throughout the entire 2010's decade.
In the postseason he is second in touchdown passes, fifth in all-time passer rating, and sixth in passing yards. In the regular season he has the best touchdown-to-interception ratio in NFL history at 4.66, holds the league's lowest career interception percentage at 1.4 percent and the highest single-season passer rating record of 122.5. Rodgers is considered by many sportscasters and players to be one of the greatest and most talented quarterbacks of all time. Rodgers is also a four-time winner of the Best NFL Player ESPY Award.
Outside of football, Rodgers has a minority ownership stake in the Milwaukee Bucks of the National Basketball Association (NBA). In 2021, with him as a minority owner, the Bucks won the 2021 NBA Finals.
This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.
When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
I just don't think it's appropriate talking about family stuff publicly.
I've dealt with a lot of injuries over the years, and you just learn about pain management and how to keep yourself in the best shape to play on Sunday, and then playing with pain.
I like to push the limit to how much air we can put in the football, even go over what they allow you to do and see if the officials take air out of it.
I think that, as athletes, sometimes we have the opportunities to make an impact. When it's authentic, I think there's room to share your opinion in an appropriate way.
I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
How you deal with adversity says a lot about the kind of players you've got and the kind of team we've got.
You play it the way you always play it. You look for matchups, and you go through your progression, and you throw it to the guy who's most open.
If we can string together some wins this year, maybe I'll be a close second-or third behind Bart Starr-on their favorite quarterback list.
I look for my opportunities, not trying to go outside of my genuine realm, because leadership has to be genuine and authentic.
Five letters here just for everybody out there in Packer-land: R-E-L-A-X, Relax. We're going to be OK.
If I can slow it down in my mind, things will be fine.
When you're competitive, the last thing you want to do is come out of a game, regardless of what kind of injury it is -- whether it's an ankle, a knee, a rib, or a head injury.
The QB is going to be judged, fair or unfair, on success in the playoffs. You remember QBs who have won 3 or 4 Super Bowls.
The butterflies I get are not if somebody boos me in the crowd, or somebody talks trash about me during the week, or somebody on ESPN rips me. It's the pressure that I'm putting on myself.
Aaron Rodgers, starting quarterback -- that just has a good ring to it.
I've always seemed to have my best performances when I'm under the most pressure.
He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.
I've always been supremely confident in my abilities. But the biggest confidence boost is when the guys around you, you feel like they have confidence in you.
I think a lot of times, the things you can't measure are often the things that give people the most success.
I think the guys are starting to rally around my leadership style and the way I do things. I've been waiting for this opportunity my whole life.
It's named the Lombardi Trophy for a reason, because we play and live in Titledown. We've got the best fans, and I can't wait to go home and see those fans and bring home the Lombardi Trophy.
Thankfully we had a big drive there in the fourth quarter after the fumble to put us up 11, and then the big drive to finish the game.
I'm not playing for anybody but the guys in this locker room.
I think there needs to be modified penalties in training camp because there's severely modified compensation in training camp for all of us.
Tonight is not a setback. It's just a learning experience.
The NCAA makes so much money off of their kids, and they put ridiculous -- absolutely ridiculous -- restrictions on everything that they can do.
As a kid, I always wanted to obviously win a Super Bowl. Now that I've got one, it's like, 'Now what?' Let's go get another one!
I think the talent is there to get to Super Bowl 5.
It takes a career, a lifetime, to build up a reputation, and only one misstep for it all to crumble away.
Surround yourself with really good people. I think that's an important thing. Because the people you surround yourself are a reflection of you.
I know a lot of friends and family who were Joe Montana fans, where it didn't matter how well Steve Young did. They weren't going to cheer for him because he wasn't Joe Montana.
I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings.
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I think as you get older, you realize there's always going to be critics. Critics are going to win every time because they can change their critique based on the stats and their own personal feelings. It's less about proving people wrong, the critics wrong, and it's more about challenging myself to keep this level up.
The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day.
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I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.
I've spent years trying to time up my drops with my throws. You learn to listen to your feet and trust your positions.
I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
Touch is more important than arm strength. You want to really allow the receiver to run underneath the throw. It'll give you a little margin for error if you undershoot it a bit.
I feel like I've set the bar fairly high, and I want to keep living up to that bar.
That's what really motivates me: to make my coaches proud, my teammates proud, and the fans proud.
I don't think God cares a whole lot about the outcome. He cares about the people involved, but I don't think he's a big football fan.