Brentson Buckner Quotes (47 Quotes)

The 2006 team might be the best Panther team of all time.

I can't say it got to us. If I say it got to us, that's taking something away from Seattle. They were the best team today. We play on the road eight games a year (during the regular season), so that didn't bother us.

But come Sunday, I get paid extremely well to go out there and play football, and that's what I plan to do. If anything, it tells you in life one minute you can have everything and the next it's gone. I'm going to go out and enjoy every game I get to play

Really Cool. Go Tigers. Clemson has a winning tradition and the players learn that while they're there. I guess it carries over to the NFL.

You don't ever want to limp in. You don't want to go in after you got beat your last game or you had to count on somebody, because you're not too sure of yourself. When you go in after you put up a good victory and you executed well and you played a rival away game, you go in with confidence. You go in with your head high, and you're ready to take on the world.

He's the one consistent thing back there through all the coaches. From '97 on up, he's been the one constant thing that's been back there. When you got a piece like that, you don't replace that. You replace the stuff around him until you find the right combination, and that's what they've done.

We have to be patient. We have to get our hands up and try to tip some passes or disrupt some passes. We watched them against the Raiders and Brady just keeps that machine going over there. They're still the defending Super Bowl champions, two years after we played them. That tells you something.

One thing you better learn about Steve The madder you make him, the better he's going to play. He's like the little Hulk.

He loves it, waking up at 4 in the morning, doing what he has to do, that's his life. You can take the boy off the farm, you just can't take the farm out of the boy.

Usually, the best defense wins. Today, the luckiest defense won. Their defense played better than ours.

It was smash-mouth football. We knew that coming in. This is the Chicago Bears and that's their tradition. We can play that kind of football.

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer. We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

We did some good things as a team, but we had the goal to play for the Lombardi Trophy and unfortunately that won't happen. This is not how you want to end your year. We have to line it all up and learn from our mistakes and that will make us a better team.

I don't care what people think of us. The only thing that matters is what the guys in this room believe. The guys that have that black cat on their heads, the coaches, the owner . . . we don't worry about what people say. All that's going to handle itself on the field.

Early on, it's natural that you take it for granted (you'll win a Super Bowl). You're like, 'Oh, this is my first year, my second year, my third, fourth.' Then you start getting around eight and nine and you start looking at rosters and there are not too many people that have nine or 10 after their name in (years of) experience.

You tell me one receiver out there right now that's doing the things he's doing. There's some guys who are having good games, but I'm talking about somebody who can give you across the middle, the short yardage, and beat you deep at any time And line up at punt return and be liable to break it You name me one that's doing it.

It's America he's allowed to be or express his opinion anyway he wants to. You don't deserve respect, you have to go out and earn it. And until we do something to earn it then so be it.

They've been there. They know what the hoopla is all about. They know how to go through the week and prepare. Now, the coaches don't have to worry about impressing what you need to know. Now, without even talking about it, you see guys spending more time on film or lifting more or communicating more.

It's hard to take punches. Our offense did a good job building a lead. It's just human nature to blink when things like that happen.

We'll show up and play anywhere. We'd play on the moon if they ever get a shuttle going.

Take your biggest college bowl game. That's just the wild-card game. The next week, you multiply that. It gets big because the whole world's watching you.

Being a defensive lineman, Reggie is one of the guys I always watched. And he was an inspiration off the field, too. We lost a great football player today, and we lost a great citizen.

If it's having Brady throw the ball 40-50 times, that's what they're going to do. You just have to practice for everything and play. We can't look at it like, 'Jenks isn't here now so we have to worry about that side.' We have to just play and let the pieces fall where they may.

This is a team, and we've been down this road before. Last year when the team finished 7-9 was a big thing, but we're beyond that now. We've got guys who know how to play. We showed that today. It's easy when the coaches just let you tee off and go after them.

After the success they have had against us in recent years, we wanted to make a statement today and get our swagger back.

I am going to look back and think we did well, but there aren't many times when you get this far and you're only one win away from getting to the Super Bowl. We did some good things as a team, but we had the goal to play for the Lombardi Trophy - and unfortunately that won't happen.

When he's healthy, there's no one better at doing what he does. ... He's in great shape, and he's been dominating. So for us as a front four and as a defense, we know now that's a major problem for other teams.

I like the pureness of college football. You never know what you're going to see. You have the option one week and the run and shoot the next.

I know how bad it hurt him not to be out there last year. Hopefully he'll handle it a little bit better this time. We're going to make sure that he knows we're here for him, and that he can still come around even though he's hurt. Don't be scared to pick up the phone and call one of us if he has a problem - because he's still part of this family. We don't want him to ever feel that just because he's not here every day, we forgot about him.

The best team is going to win. This is not baseball. Nobody has got a hundred mile per hour fastball can't nobody hit.

That's the key for most defenses. Your job as a defensive tackle is to make sure those guys are untouched. Dan Morgan is like my quarterback. If he's untouched and making plays, then I'm doing a great job. If you're disruptive inside, you can let a guy like Dan Morgan fly to the ball, you're going to have some success.

Yeah, sometimes you start questioning yourself. But we saved ourselves today.

He keeps his balance. I can't count how many times you think, 'He's down, they got him' and he's coming out the back end, going down the field with speed. You need 11 guys coming to the ball making sure he's down. Keep pounding and pounding him and make sure he's on the ground.

I don't know how we're going to do it because he's crazy, a double threat. You can say all you want about takingaway the throwing option, but then he takes off and is running like Eric Dickerson. All you can do is go out there and line up, stay technically sound and hope for the best.

Anytime you've got a player that can just come out and dictate the game like that, you've got an edge. That first touchdown took the air out of the crowd.

The funny thing about it is it's been in our hands several times this year and we seemed to drop it. Our backs are against the wall right now and there are no more drops.

I don't know what the other 113 people are like. But I know I've got deep spot in my heart for sports and a love for it. I can't speak for anybody else. I have plenty of time (to follow college football). I know what my perspectives are. I love sports. I spend all day Saturday watching college football anyway, so I'll put it to good use.

I'm smart enough to know that he has an arm to make throws that Kyle Orton couldn't make and the (Bears) coaches feel more comfortable with him back there so they're going to open up the offense a little bit more. With Rex being healthy that offense is more open. They're taking more chances going down the field.

That's the hog farmer, man, the hog farmer's gonna show up and play. For him to show the way he did - that's a blessing. I'm proud to say I'm his teammate.

When you're going against arguably the best defensive lineman in the game, you're going to lose some sleep at night, especially when you're feeling that he's in a zone. It's human nature. If you see me ball up my fist to hit you, you're going to move out the way, right Just imagine that. When you start taking those punches, sooner or later you're going to jerk back.

Taylor is that kind of player. He can give them a very nice little package in that offense, something that's going to be very tough to stop.

This is the identity we want. We want to run the ball, stop the run, play aggressive defense and just play our football. It was a good game to try to establish that.

It's human nature. The team that's got something to play for will always play harder than the team that doesn't have anything to play for. It's just a matter of going out there and taking it.

When you get a chance to play someone in your division, you want to play them, but it didn't work out that way. We've got the Giants, and we've got to handle our business. You want to get invited to the dance. You don't care who you dance with. You just want to make sure you get the invitation. We got the invitation. We've got to dance with the Giants, and that's what we're going to do.

We're in, so we've got a chance to do it. That's the only thing that matters to us. If they have shuttles going to the moon and we have to go up there and play on the moon, we'll go do it.

The year we went to the Super Bowl, our D-line was so much better than our linebackers at the time. Our linebackers were so much better than our secondary. It's like, the farther you went back, it sort of like dropped off. But now it's strong all the way through.

When we play our best, we can play with anybody. I think we're capable of going all the way, but we've got to take it one game at a time. We've got to line up and play whoever they put in front of us and play the way we played today and it will all take care of itself. We're not just in there just to be saying we're there.