Quotes about terrell (16 Quotes)


    Terrell is a great person, and he is here again today to make sure that everyone understands that he is making an apology, ... People obviously didn't accept the first one. That's unfortunate. That's not Terrell's fault.

    I do want my fair market value, ... The Marvin Harrison, Randy Moss, Terrell Owens numbers out there are ridiculous. I wouldnt try to ask for that. Not to say that Im any less of a player than those guys but I know how this organization is run, how the offense is, for me, its all about getting the opportunity to start his career in one place and end his career in one place and what a better place to do it than in the Black and Gold. Thats all I want is a commitment from this organization that I can retire as a Steeler.

    He's a spectacular player. He's the best playmaker in the league by far. Especially with Terrell Owens not playing, he's definitely the No. 1 guy in the league, the guy that people are the most afraid of, the guy that if he has the ball in his hands he can go the distance at any time.

    Two or three of those times was when the quarterback was hit in the backfield and then Owens came out and bought time down field, ... Terrell Owens is a great football player.

    We've always talked about the pressure from the outside and contrasting that with Terrell Suggs . If that's a nickel role, you're talking 15-25 snaps. He's capable of doing more, but we have a lot of assets here to balance that out. If we can use him more, we will.


    And, ... I was a little bit pensive, not unlike Ricky Williams. I understand, I think, some of what he was sensing. Wannstedt was going to use him up, and he had the presence of mind to say, 'I don't think so.' They weren't going anywhere last year, and perhaps he sensed that, too. Look, Ricky's got his problems -- don't we all But when I watched him Monday, he was thoughtful. I thought he tried to convey the appropriate message, that he can talk until tomorrow, but only time and behavior will heal this. I like that he said he had no big message. I do applaud Ricky Williams. . . . Do not confuse Ricky Williams and Terrell Owens. I'm not impressed with T. O. and what he's doing.

    The competency and the chemistry that you can create certainly helps make for a good team. Those are the situations that we would consider relative to Terrell Owens.


    There are players in the N. F. L. who are arrested, who violate the program when it comes to drug or substance abuse, and they are not punished as seriously as he has been. A lot of his teammates believe in him. He needs to be playing football. We are concentrating exclusively on Terrell playing for the Philadelphia Eagles, A. S. A. P. He'd like to practice tomorrow.

    The Eagles told Terrell, the arbitrator, and the media that Terrell would be paid for the balance of this year when he returned from his suspension, and now they are instead withholding his pay. We therefore filed this grievance both for his protection and that of players generally, who deserve to have their CBA . . . enforced as written.

    I just think for us to be the best we can be, Terrell has to be able to score, too. I'd like to pitch it up to him in transition so he can attack the basket then, and that's when Chris comes into play.

    There was a need to reinforce that we needed to stay aggressive. We were aggressive in the Terrell Owens thing, and you don't want that to slow you down when the next situation shows up. Our belief is that teams that have significant success are those that aren't afraid of making mistakes or taking chances.

    I love what (Mills, Brown and Terrell) are doing. They chase the ball, they play technique. And they've got a little burst to them. They aren't running at the same speed all the time.

    I look for our freshmen to contribute a lot in the relays. We also need them to get into the finals in their respective events, to knock other people out of position to score. Some of the younger athletes, like Lauren Scott , Steven Bach and Terrell Thompson , have the ability to do that. At the Big Ten meet, I tell all of our athletes to focus on beating bodies, not on jumping a certain distance or running a certain time. If you focus on beating people, those things will come.

    Ivory is a character. I don't think she really cares what she does. She just tries to be unique. She's the (Terrell Owens) of women's basketball. When she makes a hustle play or a steal, she might give you a dance or a wink to let you know that she's fired up. You just never know what she's going to do.

    I think the arbitrator chose to accept not only the Eagles' version of the evidence, but I think he went even further and pieced the evidence together in a way that it really didn't involve. He describes all of the events leading up to the suspension, but ignored the fact that Terrell was a model citizen from the week he was gone in training camp until Nov. 3. If you view, as (Bloch) did, the one week (Reid) sent (Owens) home as a form of discipline, that wiped out all prior conduct.



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