Shawn Springs Quotes (30 Quotes)

He won't let you get a big hit on him, ... Just when you think you got him and you've stopped him a couple times, he'll slither out and bust one. I laugh at people all the time that are like, 'I don't like Shaun Alexander he doesn't run tough,' and stuff like that. I tell them, 'You say what you want to, he'll bust one on you for about 40, 50 yards.'

It felt good, especially after what my last season in Seattle was like.

It's a short week. I strained it last week and that was the first game I wasn't able to finish. We have enough depth and enough quality players that I don't want to do anything that would hurt the team. We have guys like Walt (Harris) and Carlos (Rogers) who are very capable and are doing a great job.

I was talking to the Seahawks around that time, telling them I wanted to get traded. We were bad on defense -- couldn't stop the run, couldn't pressure the passer -- and it was just killing me.

Now I'm in my 10th year, I make a lot of money, and I can still walk without (limping). He was a visionary.

You don't have any choice if your dad plays for the Cowboys,

The first thing Ray said was, 'Man, come on, now -- don't do me like that,' ... We sat there at The Cheesecake Factory and talked about everything. I told him how I'd felt about the last four years, that I was tired of taking the blame. And I came away thinking, This is the guy who's going to make me a player.

He had issues with everybody focusing on his drops, not really focusing on how many plays he did make,

Of course, the defense won the game, overcoming sub-par passing, a special teams turnover that led to the Bears' only points, and the opponent. Williams runs from credit, but he's getting it whether he likes it or not. Just when you think you've got us figured out, ... he's got another package, he's come up with something else. We knew we had to come after Orton today, mentally and physically. Muhsin Muhammad even told me before the game, 'We know what you're going to try to do to him.'

Both are fun, they're just different. It's like having an angel and a devil - I ain't saying which one is which.

You can't control that. There's nothing you can do about that,

We've been playing well so far. Let's keep it at that. I don't want to go out Sunday night and get bombed or something like that. We've been playing well, and we've just been battling through injuries.

I'm excited about it. We used to get at it. I remember when Darrell first came in -- I thought he was going to be a pretty good player, so we would mix it up.

They use me everywhere, ... I blitz. I cover. I'm a rover. I make the coverage calls. I call plays. I do everything. Life is good.

I was raised in that organization. They've seen me go from a young man to who I am today.

The Redskins rattled him, as they should have. No rookie quarterback should go on the road and in his first start beat a team with a defense as good as the one the Redskins have. You hit him, you throw stuff at him he's never seen. You act as if you're in one defense when you're really in another. You put people on the field he's not expecting. You play to your strengths. You expect to pitch a shutout. That's what we talked about, ... giving up nothing.

I think he did really good, ... That was a tough group of receivers to start off with, and it was good to see that he wasn't nervous. He did a good job. I was so happy he got the pick.

When you have a quarterback that's mobile and accurate like Matt is, it's pretty tough to defend. We didn't expect Matt to be as effective as he was today, and he was great.

He's held up well, ... When you're the ninth pick, you're not supposed to look like a rookie you're supposed to look sharp, and that's what I expect out of him. He's a very mature young man, he's studied a lot of film, and I don't look at him as a rookie. When you're a top-10 pick, you're expected to come in and play.

I can take a plane to see them in 45 minutes, or take a train 2 12 hours, so I see them all the time,

Hey, Matt's a good player, man I've seen him do it before. If Shaun's not the MVP, it's not like Matt couldn't be. He can move. We didn't capitalize like we should.

The way we look at it, everybody's on a one-year contract. We need to produce this season or we're probably gone.

It wasn't a magical run or anything like that. We have a pretty good football team and we played well over the last six weeks. We beat some good teams. We were just overmatched today.

I didn't get coaching in Seattle like I did this year, ... except for my first two years.

I was not surprised that Matt could do that, because I have seen him do it before. Matt is a good player. ... If Shaun wasn't the MVP, it's not like Matt couldn't be. He's been doing that all year.

It's cool, man, ... There's a lot of love when you go to high school in this area.

We kind of laughed when we saw that they were going to open it up like that. You can't come out with four wide receivers all the time on us, not with Gregg. No one can block Gregg all game like that.

I think we did. They have good players, a good defense, and home field throughout. Whoever comes in here better be ready, because their defense was awesome, and Matt did enough with Shaun going down to beat us.

The blunt and cantankerous Rhodes, who resigned after two years in Denver as Mike Shanahan's defensive coordinator -- the Broncos had the league's sixth-ranked unit last season but were shaky in the red zone and on third down -- is being hailed as a savior by the Seahawks' veteran defenders. Springs, whose contract expires after this season, isn't sure whether this will be his last year in Seattle, but he's certainly excited about the season ahead. If I look bad in Ray Bob's defense, ... then I can't play.

I've been hearing it all over the place about us being the weak link. There was no way we were going to be the ones to get burned. Nobody is going to take advantage of us.