Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hines Ward

I never went into the game saying I wanted to be the Super Bowl MVP. I just went out and played. And everything worked its way out.

I think our fans are having fun. I don't want to take anything away from the Liberty Bowl because those people treated us great, but this is a great place. This is great for our fans.

Ralph Macchio

I just love that one and always loved the moment where Daniel bows to Miyagi after he puts him to sleep, ... That was John Avildsen saying, 'Before you leave, just turn and bow to him.' It's just a genuine organic great moment that just sort of came up on the day.

Hopefully, I can bring some of that Super Bowl magic here.

Rex Grossman

He's a Pro Bowl receiver. He led the league in touchdown catches and yards last season. He's been there, done that. He makes big catches in big games, and I know he is going to come through when it counts.

Matt Hasselbeck

He's a Pro Bowler now. He's so big-time that he's hogging interviews.

He said he didn't get an invitation to the Super Bowl until a month ago and he'd planned to have those visitors. Maybe he would have gone if he'd been invited earlier. Of course, maybe he wouldn't have.

I don't know if he's priced himself out. We don't know the interest level out there. Certainly we have an interest in keeping him, and we definitely want to keep him. I think any time you win a Super Bowl it enhances your value, sometimes artificially, too.

I didn't realize you got gifts this sweet until I got here. Our bowl gift at the JC level was a hat and a T-shirt.

I didn't realize it was going to be a reunion, ... It was like the five-year reunion from the Super Bowl team.

Jerome Bettis

I didn't play football until high school. I bowled until high school. I bowled. Football was a second thought, bowling was my first love.

Joe Torre

I didn't know what to expect going in. But nothing gets by these fans. Bernie didn't know whether to take a bow (in the eighth inning). He looked over at me and I gave him a nod.

Steve Spurrier

He's still on my team. Because I might would've done the same thing as a college kid when somebody took the bowl game away. ... You get mad and you get over it. Those guys, I don't really have a problem with it.

Michael Robinson

He's taking it OK. He understands he's still a young guy. He has a lot of football to play. He's waiting to see if he can make it back for a bowl or not.

Larry Alexander

Hosting a Super Bowl is so much more than a game. It's about global visibility, economic impact, competition for conventions and more visitors.

Ali Smith

How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

George Vecsey

I've seen fire, and I've seen rain. I've also had to scramble over tundra to get to the Super Bowl and seen baseball turf fields that could fry a fielder's soles.

I've seen teams win Super Bowls like that. Defense wins championships in this league, and I don't see why we should be any different.

I've reviewed it. That was certainly a different situation. We were a very experienced bowl team and we were hitting on all cylinders. Things got away from Northwestern a little bit.

It was the number one Super Bowl weekend opening of all time.

It was the No. 1 Super Bowl weekend opening of all time. The industry was really expecting only expecting it to gross in the mid-to-high teens.

Darrell Royal

It was the right call and I don't know how a Super Bowl could have been more meaningful.

Hines Ward

It was all for Jerome. We were going to fight for him. I'm just so happy for him. The way he ended his career, to win a Super Bowl in his own town, is a fairy tale come true.

It was an unbelievable moment. The Rose Bowl is the greatest bowl game there is. It was the greatest memory of my life.

It was a case of talking to the bowlers and saying, 'It can't go on.

Gary Pinkel

I told the guys at halftime, let's have the greatest comeback in Independence Bowl history.

Larry Brown

I told them we're bowl eligible. We won seven games.

It's money that was here that is no longer here. You're talking about money at the gate, television money, bowl money. You're talking millions of dollars annually.

It's two contrasting styles. That's why this bowl game is so attractive. Our style of play is so different from theirs.

Arthur Blank

It's very clear, ... the ownership feels strongly about having the Super Bowl in a spot where it is guaranteed to be warm.

It strikes me as one of nature's greatest jokes that the types of food we all like to eat more than anything (especially in winter) are the very things that cause the most insane weight gain - mounds of fluffy mashed potato, hot, thickly buttered toast, huge, steaming bowls of pasta, great big... actually, I'll stop there.

It's not just the Super Bowl itself, but the residual impact. Some of these companies who are here for the Super Bowl also are looking for different destinations for future meetings, conventions and trade shows.

Michael Vaughan

For James to bowl as well as he did on his debut was fantastic. It was a good a toss to win, but we exploited the conditions fantastically.