Famous Quotes & Sayings

I was going to (have a Pro Bowl year) regardless of whether he got hurt or not, ... Football is all about opportunities. I definitely didn't want it to happen this way. But it is what it is now.

Paul Allen

I was at the Super Bowl last year just hoping that one day we'd be able to get there. I may seem like a mild-mannered guy, but my gut was churning inside: 'Let's win this game. Just win this game. We've got to win this game.

I would rather be on a Super Bowl team. The whole fact still remains that we're here. ... That's all that matters to me right now.

Matt Willig

I grew up knowing I would be good at athletics, and dreams of a Super Bowl were always within reach as long as I progressed.

I grew up with a lot of these guys, ... I remember Darren and Darren remembers me, but since then I've probably gotten a few more gray hairs and he's probably gotten a few Super Bowl rings.

If we're not in shape, it seems to me we played in the Super Bowl last year. We've played in four NFC championships. Maybe more teams ought to be doing what we're doing.

If we're not in shape, it seems to me we played in the Super Bowl last year, ... We've played in four NFC championships. Maybe more teams ought to be doing what we're doing.

Drew Bledsoe

I got one of those rings, ... But I wasn't on the field when we won it. I want to win a championship with the Cowboys. I am motivated by trying to do everything I can to tip my cap and ride off into the sunset with my Super Bowl ring.

Barry Alvarez

I grew up a poor kid in Pennsylvania. I went to Nebraska because I saw them play in an Orange Bowl and I wanted to play in that game.

Allan Donald

I have given much thought to the matter, and have withdrawn my application for the England bowling coach post.

Bill Belichick

He's had a tremendous career, ... He's been there 40-some years, whatever it is, six decades, (won) three Super Bowl championships. He's been the commissioner of the AFL, been a coach.

He trusts us, but I think a lot of that has to do with the fact that we are an older team now. He might have handled it differently if we were younger or hadn't been to a bowl before.

He has a feel for our personnel. He can kind of give his teammates some pointers, and us having him here, our coaches and players have a feel for him. He looks really good, really exceptional. He looks like a guy that's trying to get back to Super Bowl form. We all know that he's a competitor and a hard worker so he's gonna come in here and try to put together a good showing.

He has to learn the game at a different speed at safety. I love how he gets at it. He's young, and he's hungry. He'll be a Pro Bowler before it's all said and done. Probably next year, in fact.

Mahela Jayawardene

He is a player that is maturing fast and the challenge for him now is to work hard on his bowling and batting.

Graeme Smith

He is difficult to handle when he bowls like that.

He is not going to be a part of the bowl game, will not be traveling, will not be a part of practice. His status in the future is outside of my control.

Antawn Jamison

He'd rather go bowling on a Friday night than go out to the club and party with his boys.

Sean Williams

Having extra time to get started has made things easier. I have time to make breakfast instead of grabbing just a small bowl of cereal.

He looks exceptional. He looks like a guy trying to get back to his Super Bowl form.

Mahela Jayawardene

He moves the ball, is difficult for batsman to read and he is not slow. He is the sort of bowler that Pakistan has not had for some time and we know need to look after him.

There is no food in Charity Hospital. They're eating fruit bowl punch and that's all they've got to eat. There's minimal water,

We've been to seven bowls in eight years, and when we missed out, we decided in January that wasn't going to happen again. We knew we had a tough schedule. We knew we had to play at Norman and had some tough games on the road in the Mountain West Conference. We just continued to improve as the season progressed.

We're probably a little short on bowls for one year, ... We'll want to do everything we can possibly do to have a home for all of our bowl-eligible teams if at all possible. But that will be a challenge this particular year.

Rex Grossman

We're one step closer to winning the Super Bowl and being world champions. It's definitely the first part of our magical season.

Allan Border

When your bowling is not firing, any captain is going to struggle.

Irfan Pathan

When I bowled my hat-trick delivery, I just tried to bowl normally at the right line and it worked.

LaDainian Tomlinson

We needed a victory bad, ... We needed to get back to even so we could feel good about ourselves and the direction we were going. It just happened to be the Super Bowl champs and their 21-game home winning streak on the line.

Roger Martin

We won't be taking any charter buses on Super Bowl Sunday. We'll limit the number of buses on Friday and Saturday, but the rest of the week will be business as usual.

Barry Alvarez

We've studied the Bowling Green defense of a year ago, and what they did and their tendencies and their patterns. And we've also studied the Clemson defense as to what they did, what he (Lovett) seems to hang his hat on, and that type of thing. So it's been a little more of a difficult preparation for us.

Joe Greene

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

One of our goals was to really enhance our reputation as a good bowl team.

My first experience truly around professional players was the New York Giants in their Super Bowl year with Lawrence Taylor and that great front that they had. Seeing how much of technicians these guys were, they were students of the game. So that was a great place for me.