Jason Taylor Quotes (53 Quotes)

It kind of upset me to see it again hanging in the hallway, but when you win it, you can do that. I'm glad they got fined by their team, but I'm not big on bulletin-board stuff. If you need a bulletin board to get you going for Sunday, then you need to get a new line of business.

There's one voice here. There's one person out front, and that's Nick, and everything goes through him. Not everybody likes it, but that's the way he runs his ship.

Chad didn't throw that well last week and he really didn't throw well today. But he got the job done and we really didn't play that well.

It was a mistake by me. I should have been on the other side. It's not a good feeling. I saw what the route was going to be and just misplayed it. I could have made a play on the ball, but I just misplayed it.

Yeah, it is. It was good to bounce back after last week's loss. Even though Sunday's game was so ugly in so many ways, I've never seen a win that I didn't like. So I'll take it. But it was very ugly. It's good that we overcame shooting ourselves in the foot so many times.

I'd hate to have to play against it. That is two great running backs. They could do a lot of things together. That would be scary.

There's a lot of guys that haven't been here in years past for all the streaks and the things we've had going on with them. There's an obvious rivalry there that adds to it a little bit. ... But the way that we approach each game will be the same way regardless of who the opponent is.

He brings all the things you look for in a head coach. He is prepared, he is focused, he obviously wants to win and he has a plan. He is going to be successful and get done what he wants done with or without you. That I do like. He holds everybody accountable and he is not afraid to tell someone that they are messing up. Everyone has to be accountable and know their role and take care of their job and be focused and be intense.

I'm having a positive effect, thank goodness. And, they care enough to stay interested in the class and do their best on the test.

I had no idea what (quarterback) Gus (Frerotte) was talking about, ... I asked Randy where I was supposed to go.

We asked her if she has ever been out on a boat. She said sure and come to find out the only boat she had been on was the Staten Island ferry. It's certainly not a flat bottom boat, ... She never did figure out how to get up and walk from one end to the other. Every time she got up she nearly turned the boat over. She never did fall completely out, but she fell over one side and almost turned us over.

You had to be on time to meetings, had to pay attention in them.

We're on the right track, heading in the right direction. Unfortunately, right now, we're out of track. We just have to wait now and tee it up next year.

I would have liked to have been in the end zone a couple of more times when we were down there. We've got to be able to close out our drives. It wasn't a bad start.

We got an ugly win that was very beautiful.

The pressures in college will be a little less than they were in the NFL. I think it will work out for him.

We saw him in college down here, and he's been doing a great job in the league,

It was huge. They wanted their offense to punch it in there. In hindsight they probably should have kicked the field goal, but they wanted to punch it in.

Two days later, facing the regular Wednesday media horde, Taylor said, Sometimes his grumpy attitude rubs off on us sometimes. Like I did a few minutes ago I apologize for that. ... I am not going to sit here and talk about trying to get a win on the road for the next ten minutes.

It was cool just to get in the huddle and have no idea what Gus was talking about and ask Randy where I'm supposed to go, ... It's a different kind of huddle. Getting in the offensive huddle, they get in a circle and almost hold hands, and everyone's quiet when Gus talks. Our defensive huddle is completely different.

Let's not let these individuals with this devil mentality corrupt our city. For people who are scared to come forth, come forth. We shouldn't have to be afraid.

Chad didn't throw the ball well last week, and he really didn't throw it good today.

We have a lot of respect for him. He's a very good talent. He can run. He's quick. He's powerful. He has great vision. If we can't stop him, it's going to be a long day.

Brandon not only improved his baseball skills, but he worked hard in the classroom. He made many sacrifices and spent many hours getting better.

He did his time and paid the price that he had to pay for what he did and he is back. From Day 1, we've adopted him as back in the family, and everything is fine. ... Hopefully he can help us get some victories.

We didn't make the playoffs. We definitely did a better job this year, but we still didn't make the playoffs.

Saban claims that Williams' work ethic has been exemplary since his return. Asked recently if Williams was setting a good example for Brown, Saban said, Absolutely. He's done an outstanding job in practice and he finishes every play. He has done everything that anybody could ask of a player. If you asked me, give me the top five guys that are the best practice players, he would be one of them. ... If Jason Taylor had played in a 3-4 system somewhere, he would have been a Hall of Fame outside linebacker. He's smart and he's got great instincts to learn things, better than I ever hoped for.

That's not the team that they are. We are rivals. We do have a bad history against each other, but that's a team that I have always respected and they play well. Herm knows what he is doing up there. What they did Sunday was an aberration. It won't happen again.

They didn't run the ball the way we wanted them to without their marquee runner supposedly. You've got to give them credit. I think we did a good job of playing the run at times. It was just the big plays that really hurt us.

Buffalo won the game, and I give them credit. They've been through a lot, they've been struggling, and they had the whole quarterback situation to deal with this week. They won the game, but you can't tell me they beat us. I don't care what anybody says. I know we lost the game, but they didn't beat us.

Yeah, I made a couple plays out there, but that's what I get paid to do. I do enjoy it. This is a new role that I've kind of adapted to. I can fall in love with it, and I'm having a good time with it.

If you come back and say, 'Look guys, I made a mistake. I'm back. I'm ready to go and I'm with you,' .... it is easy to forgive. We've all made mistakes in life and done things we all regret. If anybody sat here and said they didn't, then they are lying. It's easy. You can't hold a grudge forever.

We're fine. . . . We'll see what happens in the draft, we'll see what happens with the free agency and that's what's most important. Let the system run its course and see what happens.

I just got out of church and came over here to check my e-mail and to look at DVDs.

I made a couple of plays, but it wasn't enough to help us win. I need to make more big plays and not jump offsides. I'm just anticipating the snaps. I have to be more disciplined and play it better. It's inexcusable.

I guess that is the future, huh. That means that we will be out of here pretty soon. . . . Hopefully, those guys will pan out and have the careers that Sam (Madison) and Zach (Thomas) have had. It would be great for them and the organization.

I don't know what they're going to do. It's going to be a tough choice who they keep and who they don't. We've got a bunch of veterans I know they're going to keep. After that, it's going to be difficult.

In the second half, things got a little more ugly for the Eagles, as a pair of mishandled snaps contributed to four Marsh Valley turnovers. Those are things we have to fix, ... We cannot give up opportunities.

He goes off sometimes, but I think it's good. When people make mistakes and are repeatedly messing up over and over again, at some point you've got to grab them by the back of the neck and slap them.

My wife and I were the victims in an unfortunate incident last night, but we are both fine.

Frustrating, ... It's tough when you miss sacks, but Jake's not called the Snake for nothing.

It'll be kind of like a long, linear park with a serpentine path to add some interest. It will be much more aesthetically attractive and will enhance the drainage in the ditch.

We have people out in the middle of nowhere come here and are on death's doorstep.

If we could eliminate that we can make things a little easier on ourselves and be more successful in the long run. We lost our composure a little bit and got some cheap penalties. Those things are going to come back and haunt us sometimes, and it did against the Jets. Some of those mistakes we made cost us the Jets' game. We still need to learn from that. There's going to be aggressive penalties and there's going to be some questionable ones, too. And then there's going to be the dumb ones. The dumb ones are the ones we need to eliminate.

Don't get me wrong, we haven't proven anything yet. We won a game, big deal.

It's like the whole hurry-up and wait thing. It means to go after it but to also make sure you get it right the first time.

It's a lot of stuff to learn, but I love it. We want to be the aggressors, the ones throwing things at them to see if they can handle it instead of waiting for them to come at us. Sometimes it puts you in tough spots, leaving the secondary out on an island, but I'd rather take my chances with it that way. We came out ahead of them with it today.

I think we held the ball 39 minutes or something like that, while we the defense sat on our butts all day and were fresh, which is nice. Ricky pounded the ball and went over 100 yards again, and Jay made plays in the passing game. The offense did a great job and put up plenty of points. I just know it's a lot easier to play with a lead.

I'm excited and a bit worn out. At the same time we approved this plan I've been hit left and right by new development. We're learning the new code ourselves and explaining it to developers, so it's been exhausting.

We're not good enough to overcome killing ourselves all the time. But we're getting there.