14 Quotes by Nate Kaeding

I was lucky enough to get it loosened up (thanks to a medicinal shot). It was definitely there, but I could still kick on it. With some good treatment on it, it shouldn't be any problem.

I think this is behind me now. Something I learned the last six months and this last week especially is that I have to be my biggest fan,

There is nothing I can do to ever make up for that kick, ... But that happened. I take responsibility for that. In the future there are going to be opportunities, and I look forward to that.

You have to have a good perspective, not just on football, but on life. You really have to have your life in order in terms of what's important to you. I had to understand that football was important to me, but it wasn't my life.

There's only one thing worse than being a rookie; that's being a rookie kicker.

A couple guys on the team joked about it, and coach maybe came up to me and joked about it, ... It really wasn't too much of a focal point on the team, but it was a laughable matter to me. It just played right into the way we were approaching the game -- 'We're nobodies, we're just these small-town guys from Iowa.'

I've kicked hundreds of balls in the rain before, there's no excuse for it.

It was probably just a slip on his part. I have no idea what he was thinking or what he was trying to say. If it was any sort of gauge on their preparedness for the game, I think we went ahead and reconfirmed those thoughts out on the football field against them in that bowl game.

It was probably just a slip on his part, ... I have no idea what he was thinking or what he was trying to say. If it was any sort of gauge on their preparedness for the game, I think we went ahead and reconfirmed those thoughts out on the football field against them in that bowl game.