Steve Hutchinson Quotes (37 Quotes)

I've been blessed. I pride myself on my motivation.

I wasn't really anticipating it to be as big of a controversy. I knew about the clause. I knew it would be hard for Seattle to match. I did what I thought was best for me and my family.

All year long, we've heard why we shouldn't be able to do this or that. Finally, we got sick of hearing it. As an organization, we had to go out and earn our respect.

It was like a Disney ride.

They were prepared to stop that today, and we caught them with the outside stuff.

He was the best man at my wedding.

He's now the rookie. The veterans over there have a tendency to find your room number and send the lunch bills to that room.

Jeff knows how to play. He's a fierce competitor and he wants to win. Detroit's record wasn't what they wanted it to be the last couple years, but Jeff's going to keep playing and keep doing what he can do to help that team win.

It was special. An offensive lineman doesn't really have stats for himself, so any time you can get the rushing record or a touchdown record like that it's big for us, too.

Walt never gets in a position where he's off balance. He takes pride in what he does and wants to win every play.

I think we're all kind of hoping for it. But we all kind of had it in our head this is going to be a long week.

We'd been hearing that our team had the worst defense of the 12 teams that made the playoffs. They proved people wrong today. Can you play any better than that

He lets it be known what he's thinking, and yeah, sometimes his opinions get on your nerves. Sometimes I want to beat him, but that would look bad, because you're not supposed to beat the elderly.

He played hard, played fast, really came off the ball. I think he's going to be a good player in this league.

It's not a big secret that we like to run left. Because of that, other teams are going to overload to that side. But Shaun can see that and make the defense pay by cutting it back. Shaun single-handedly a lot of times will force the defense to play it honestly because of the cutback.

I think that reflects the whole offense. We just knew that once we got down there, with their type of weapons, we can't just settle for field goals.

My wife loves the area. I love the guys on the team. We've gotten pretty comfortable calling it home.

I just got a little sick of hearing about we couldn't beat them. I mean, we're out here with a 13-3 record and people keep doubting us.

Frankly, we get sick of hearing it. You'd think we'd earned respect. All we can do is keep winning.

It's a fairly young franchise. And it really hasn't had much postseason success prior to this year. Everybody was talking about it. That seemed to be the big news. The ('83) team reached the conference championship. I was 7, 8 years old then.

If I've said it once, I've said it a thousand times This is something that's way overdue for this city.

That's the type of adversity that the Super Bowl-caliber teams have to be able to overcome. We're playing a team Carolina that went into some of the most hostile stadiums in the league and won handily on the road. We know in the playoffs momentum is going to go back and forth. Steve Smith is one of the top players in the league. He made a great return, and we knew we had to put more points on the board.

We kind of knocked the rust off a little bit. We had a light practice, meetings, got back into it a little bit and tried to get back in a normal schedule. (Monday) was a good start for us.

Walter is undoubtedly one of, if not the top, offensive lineman in the league. We've played next to each other for five years now, and the continuity we have and the bond we've formed, that's been key.

Hopefully some of the teams that aren't use to playing in cold and rainy weather have to come out here in the middle to end of January.

Nobody gave up. That's the difference between this team and teams from the past. We are not going to accept 'no.' We did not play anywhere near our best game. The defense played their butts off for the entire night against a very good offense, and we struggled a little bit. We covered for each other, and that's what a team does.

Pittsburgh has the tradition of being a blue-collar, three yards and a cloud of dust team. I can appreciate that, coming from a Big Ten school. But I don't think many people know much about us. And that's not a bad thing, flying under the radar. But you can't play in this league without being physical.

We're really coming into our own. But that's what happens when you've been together four or five years. The entire offense is trying to take our game to the next level.

I talk to him every week. He was my best man in my wedding. Yeah, I talk to him a bunch.

If you just look at the odds - the odds of every guy coming back, or the majority of the line coming back - probably weren't that good.

They had a lot of guys in the box. It was like beating your head against the wall.

We're out here on the West Coast, as far away as you can get from the East Coast and your ESPN studios and most of the media. As long as we can fly under the radar and just keep playing well, that doesn't bother us.

We found a way to win. The last couple years, in close games, we'd find a way to lose.

If it's March and I'm able to go on the market, I'll look around. But right now, my focus is on the playoffs and this team. I'll deal with free agency when the time comes.

You really don't need it (then). This year, it's kind of smack dab in the middle, which is nice. You can really take advantage of it. You can really use the rest.

Up until (Friday), everything was about me being new, the poison pill, the contract and what the league wants to do to amend the rule or whatever. Now it is back to football and putting on a helmet and being able to play. You can kind of put that behind you, so it's nice.

That would be kind of funny. I guess it would be kind of an honor, too. But at the same time, you hear guys saying, 'I want that long-term deal,' because of the security.