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Why Tony Romo believes he should be able to play basketball and golf during the off-season
SportsDayDFW sports
Cowboys QB Tony Romo recently called into the radio show on 105.3 the Fan. Romo commented on his relationship with the Dallas media and if he could have come back in the last few weeks of the 2010-11 season if the postseason was on the line for the Cowboys.
Here are the highlights, transcribed by SportsRadioInterviews.com.
How come you didn't make a comment on the coach (Jason Garrett) at the game yesterday?
"Oh, is that what you were talking about? Oh no, I think you know the reporters they're great here in Dallas and they do a good job of not coming up at different venues in places like and at the Mavs game or when you're out at dinner and places where you see them. You know they're pretty cool about it. If you start a precedent where you're always talking no matter whenever they see ya it's just kind of happens everywhere you're at. You try not to say too much in that regard, but you know I think it's quite obvious I support Jason Garrett. I'm excited about what's going to happen here in the future and how stuff's going to go. I think it's going to be an exciting time. I know I'm excited."
Why didn't you say to the media "Hey it's going to be fun. He's (Jason Garrett) going to turn around the team." It felt like you had something to hide?
"Oh no I think that's more just talk for people sometimes, for people to write about. No comments on every bit is much as saying something to some people. Now when you're the one who's not talking, you're just trying to enjoy a basketball game and the people around. That's more probably what happens sometimes, but you know I can understand that. I'm guy who likes...you know when I'm passionate about a team or when I love about hearing about a basketball team or anything everyone likes to read into a lot and I'm the same way as everyone else, so I know how that goes."
Did you play tonight in a basketball game? Is that what you're coming back from as you called into the station?
"Well it's fun. I mean I actually just got healthy here about a week ago with the collarbone, so I've been itching. I've been doing cardio. You're lifting. You're doing all this stuff, but just the competitive juices wanting to get out and do stuff. You know it's amazing when you have a little time off how you'll be doing anything that you can get some competitive vibe going, so you get up there and play around some."
Should you be playing basketball and golf? We've criticized you for doing that before along with the John Daly thing. When you hear that what do you think when people think you should be just focused on football?
"Oh I think that's part of human nature. Listen I'm the same way. If I hear about another quarterback anything outside of football you automatically assume they're not doing football, but I think you also know once you're in the position you're there. You know football is my mornings and early afternoons. Then there's a lot more time in the day and I'm a competitive individual. I'm a guy who enjoys putting myself in competitive situations and I've always felt like the more times you do that the better off you are mentally you know and physically. I mean the stuff I do a lot of it relates to just getting back to being better at football in a lot of weird ways. For me being in shape, putting my body in different positions. I mean you can lift. You can do cardio, you can run, but your joints, your bones... I mean all these things. Your muscles, they need to feel different positions cause you get put in those in a football game, when you're not use to it. I wouldn't exaggerate and pretend I'm jumping for rebounds up by the rim anytime soon, but I'll pull up and hit a three and usually guard out by the three point line extended. I'm pretty safe when I'm out there. It's a good chance for me to move your hips to do things you need to do to get in shape. I think it's all just a little bit of a process of kind of getting yourself to be playing your best on Sunday's and it all follows together. The mental side of golf, the physical side of other sports. It's just the competitive juices all that stuff. It's all the same."
Could you have come back and played the last game or two if the playoffs were on the line?
"You know I would of umm...It would have been real questionable if we would have had...I would say this the percentage of me getting hurt again would of been really, really, high. You know that's part of the bone structure. We had a couple of breaks there. One heals a lot faster than the other and one of them just took its sweet old time. I do know this, you put me in a competitive situation like that I would of been hard pressed to sit down, but at the same point we weren't in the playoffs. That was a disappointing thing for us this year."
SportsDayDFW sports
Cowboys QB Tony Romo recently called into the radio show on 105.3 the Fan. Romo commented on his relationship with the Dallas media and if he could have come back in the last few weeks of the 2010-11 season if the postseason was on the line for the Cowboys.
Here are the highlights, transcribed by SportsRadioInterviews.com.
How come you didn't make a comment on the coach (Jason Garrett) at the game yesterday?
"Oh, is that what you were talking about? Oh no, I think you know the reporters they're great here in Dallas and they do a good job of not coming up at different venues in places like and at the Mavs game or when you're out at dinner and places where you see them. You know they're pretty cool about it. If you start a precedent where you're always talking no matter whenever they see ya it's just kind of happens everywhere you're at. You try not to say too much in that regard, but you know I think it's quite obvious I support Jason Garrett. I'm excited about what's going to happen here in the future and how stuff's going to go. I think it's going to be an exciting time. I know I'm excited."
Why didn't you say to the media "Hey it's going to be fun. He's (Jason Garrett) going to turn around the team." It felt like you had something to hide?
"Oh no I think that's more just talk for people sometimes, for people to write about. No comments on every bit is much as saying something to some people. Now when you're the one who's not talking, you're just trying to enjoy a basketball game and the people around. That's more probably what happens sometimes, but you know I can understand that. I'm guy who likes...you know when I'm passionate about a team or when I love about hearing about a basketball team or anything everyone likes to read into a lot and I'm the same way as everyone else, so I know how that goes."
Did you play tonight in a basketball game? Is that what you're coming back from as you called into the station?
"Well it's fun. I mean I actually just got healthy here about a week ago with the collarbone, so I've been itching. I've been doing cardio. You're lifting. You're doing all this stuff, but just the competitive juices wanting to get out and do stuff. You know it's amazing when you have a little time off how you'll be doing anything that you can get some competitive vibe going, so you get up there and play around some."
Should you be playing basketball and golf? We've criticized you for doing that before along with the John Daly thing. When you hear that what do you think when people think you should be just focused on football?
"Oh I think that's part of human nature. Listen I'm the same way. If I hear about another quarterback anything outside of football you automatically assume they're not doing football, but I think you also know once you're in the position you're there. You know football is my mornings and early afternoons. Then there's a lot more time in the day and I'm a competitive individual. I'm a guy who enjoys putting myself in competitive situations and I've always felt like the more times you do that the better off you are mentally you know and physically. I mean the stuff I do a lot of it relates to just getting back to being better at football in a lot of weird ways. For me being in shape, putting my body in different positions. I mean you can lift. You can do cardio, you can run, but your joints, your bones... I mean all these things. Your muscles, they need to feel different positions cause you get put in those in a football game, when you're not use to it. I wouldn't exaggerate and pretend I'm jumping for rebounds up by the rim anytime soon, but I'll pull up and hit a three and usually guard out by the three point line extended. I'm pretty safe when I'm out there. It's a good chance for me to move your hips to do things you need to do to get in shape. I think it's all just a little bit of a process of kind of getting yourself to be playing your best on Sunday's and it all follows together. The mental side of golf, the physical side of other sports. It's just the competitive juices all that stuff. It's all the same."
Could you have come back and played the last game or two if the playoffs were on the line?
"You know I would of umm...It would have been real questionable if we would have had...I would say this the percentage of me getting hurt again would of been really, really, high. You know that's part of the bone structure. We had a couple of breaks there. One heals a lot faster than the other and one of them just took its sweet old time. I do know this, you put me in a competitive situation like that I would of been hard pressed to sit down, but at the same point we weren't in the playoffs. That was a disappointing thing for us this year."
