Joey Porter
Joey Porter
Joseph Eugene Porteris a former American football linebacker who played thirteen seasons in the National Football League, and is the current outside linebackers coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After playing college football at Colorado State, he was drafted by the Steelers in the third round of the 1999 NFL Draft. A four-time Pro Bowl selection, Porter earned a Super Bowl ring with the Steelers in Super Bowl XL against the Seattle Seahawks. He played for the Miami Dolphins from 2007...
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I wish the defense could have played better. It was one of our bad performances in that four-game stretch we had. It doesn't matter. We'll have a greater focus next week.
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We knew what we could do in our hearts, but we still had to go out and play each one of those games. We went and won seven in a row. We did what everybody said we couldn't do. We took the scenic route. We went and visited everybody's city and played on the road. They said, 'No way they could have all these games on the road and continue to win.' You know what? When you play football like we play at that point in time, and just execute like we're doing, we feel like we can beat anybody.
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There is no need for us to stop now. You play that well, like we've been playing to get here, you save the best for last. Now this is the game that really matters. This is the history game. This is what makes you a part of history forever.
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I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.
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My older brother taught me that there was no such thing as a shortcut home. If that's the way I gotta go home, I can't let anybody make me take a shortcut. I had to face that bully.
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That was one of the craziest games I've ever been in. I feel good the ball actually bounced our way in the playoffs one time.
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I saw a month ago on TV saying they were going to make everyone with long hair cut it off. And he said he'd never do it. He doesn't care what they say, he'd never do it.
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You can forget he's a second-year guy because he's out there so poised. He's not nervous. I've been around a lot of quarterbacks. I've been around quarterbacks who have played eight or nine years and are put in pressure situations and the pressure gets to them.
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Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.
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I'm not going to give you anything, but to answer these questions one at a time, and I'll take my time doing it. I can tell when you're looking for something, fishing for something.
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It's tough enough to play against the Colts themselves. When you have to play against the Colts and the refs, it's a much harder game.
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The bigger story is what I say. The big story isn't how I go out there and play football. The bigger story is what he's going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. I'm not going to give you anything special but to answer these questions, one at a time, and I'm going to take my time doing it.
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That's all wrong. They were picked to go to the Super Bowl a long time ago, and we took the scenic route to get here.
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It was good to hear it, I needed that. He spoke out of turn right there.