Joey Porter Quotes (97 Quotes)

People should look at the big picture and see how well we held them in check. I said all along I felt we were the more physical team and we proved that (today) on the field...

He can come play free safety for me every time. If he's going to make guarantee tackles like that, he can play back there.

We can't win without him. He's worth whatever he's asking for. It's obvious we need him.

They don't want to just sit there, line up and play football. They want to try to catch you off guard. They don't want to play smash-mouth football. They want to trick you. They want to catch you substituting. They want to make you think. They want it to be a thinking game instead of a football game.

He doesn't like the limelight. This stuff media day is a distraction to him. On game day, he's going to go out there and be Troy, let his hair down, so to speak.

You don't want to come to the Super Bowl and think about losing. I can't be mad about that. Definitely, the mental thought that you have to take to the Super Bowl is that you can't be thinking about anything else but winning, so I don't fault them for that.

The toughest route they said to take was the scenic route and that ended up being the best route for us. We went to three different cities and shocked the world three different times. We weren't supposed to be in this situation but we pulled it off. We pulled it off everywhere we went.

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

I've been going to the Super Bowl every year been in the league. But I've never been to the game. I'd just go to hang out and do the partying thing. But now I'm going strictly for business. We have one more game to win.

Sometimes he sacked himself. He was running everywhere, (taking) delay of games, throwing the ball in the dirt, taking sacks, running into guys he was scrambling for no reason at times.

We were supposed to be out of the way before we played Cincinnati (in the wild-card round), way before we played Indy (Indianapolis in the divisional playoff), so there's no way they can really, truly say that (the Seahawks are the underdog).

We knew what we could do in our hearts, but we still had to go out and play each one of those games. We went and won seven in a row. We did what everybody said we couldn't do. We took the scenic route. We went and visited everybody's city and played on the road. They said, 'No way they could have all these games on the road and continue to win.' You know what When you play football like we play at that point in time, and just execute like we're doing, we feel like we can beat anybody.

He's a tight end. I have never, ever, ever been afraid of a tight end.

We push each other. Clark's a good football player and we work well together.

It was ugly. But we'll take it.

In the past, I've seen this crowd turn on him. I knew he was just a bad play away before they were turning on him. If we forced him into making some bad plays, he was going to get down on himself. That was the whole game plan and it ended up working.

It's the perfect way to walk away. He's not doing it for the money. The broadcast table is waiting for him. . . . He's got a face for TV.

That's one of those momentum stoppers. They had a little momentum going, and Potsie Farrior's nickname came up and made a big play and made Henry fumble. When he did that, it kind of switched the momentum back to us and we never gave it back after that.

After New England, you just know everybody's going to use that game plan against us, ... They're going to spread us out and attack us. But if you can't get off the field and make a play on third down, then people are going to keep playing us this way.

I can't the knock the guy for doing it, but it's probably not the wisest thing to do. I don't own a bike because I don't trust them.

When I found out you have to send the team out, I wanted that honor for Jerome. It's his hometown, and if we all come out, everybody is going to have to look for him.

I said, 'How could I make it and he didn't' I wanted it for him. The honor should have gone to him.

He does a lot of good things. I've just got to try and do what I've been doing all year so I can get a win. I'll be looking at more tape. I want to get some more feelers on him. I thought he was a great player when I played him (in 2003). He definitely has put himself up there as one of the better left tackles in the game.

As long as I'm here, you know definitely I'll leave it out there on the field, my heart and soul, so get used to this. I'm getting used to this. Plan on doing this once again, baby.

He shocked everybody. He told us he came here because it would be a pleasure to coach us. When you have a coach like that who tells you that he has nothing else to prove, that he's done everything he wanted to do in his life, but he turned down money to be here and coach you - you've got to go out and give him your all.

I'm going to send him the new plasma black-and-white TV. Hopefully, he's going to get the chance to watch us in our playoff game in Indianapolis.

We came away with a victory. If Palmer had played, I think the same thing would have happened.

It's kind of hard to sit up here and hold a grudge when it doesn't really matter at this point. The feelings he had, the feelings I had ... why bring that up. We're champs.

In time, I'll be 100 percent, ... You have to run on it to play. You can't sit back and nurse it. When I come back, I don't want to be timid. I'm just going ahead and practicing hard now like I would in a game, and I let it fall where it was going to fall.

I don't want to hear about that, ... I know how many he's got. Why wouldn't I be jealous He has a ring, and I don't. Yeah, I'm jealous.

We are going to the dance. Everyone said we couldn't do it being the sixth seed. We just took the scenic route.

Playing for a coach like coach LeBeau, you definitely want to go out there and do his defense justice because you know it's a defense that works. It's been proven that it works. You don't have to do anything different. You just do what the defense has been asked to do and nine times out of 10 it's going to work.

The bigger story is what I say. The big story isn't how I go out there and play football. The bigger story is what he's going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. I'm not going to give you anything special but to answer these questions, one at a time, and I'm going to take my time doing it.

He's not a guy who likes the limelight. Bet a day like this makes him squirm. This attention, it's the hard part for Troy.

You look for the guys that say something that aren't supposed to say nothing, and I feel like he definitely was out of pocket to say what he said. I'm going to make sure he owns up to those words.

That was one of the craziest games I've ever been in. I feel good the ball actually bounced our way in the playoffs one time.

We have to take care of our business against the Titans - or they'll come up and get us. We need to go out there and make plays.

That's the goal. Anything else we do doesn't matter if we don't make the playoffs.

It's different when you're playing at home. The pressure is on you because you're expected to win. When we come in this way, we've been counted out since we went to Cincinnati. We weren't supposed to be here, and that enabled us to go out and play loose. That's what we did, and we played our best football three weeks in a row.

When we play with a chip on our shoulder and play mad, that's when we play our best football. We play our best football when we're ticked off.

That was the craziest game I've ever been in. I thought the game was over after the sack... Ben made a great play. That was the play of the game. If he doesn't make that play, then we don't keep the game alive.

It wasn't a matter of if he was gonna make it we knew he was gonna make it. He did what he always does He came through.

I'm not going to give you anything, but to answer these questions one at a time, and I'll take my time doing it. I can tell when you're looking for something, fishing for something.

You can forget he's a second-year guy because he's out there so poised. He's not nervous. I've been around a lot of quarterbacks. I've been around quarterbacks who have played eight or nine years and are put in pressure situations and the pressure gets to them.

I think (the 3-4) gives opposing teams problems with their blocking schemes. It's not like they can go out there and identify the coverage or blitz packages like they can in a regular 4-3 defense. We can show them some different fronts to try and confuse them from the get-go and do whatever we can to get them off beat.

He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have the opportunity to back up his words. I'm going to have the opportunity to back up my words. So, it's something I'm looking forward to and I'm ready to get going.

I thought the game was over after the sack. As I was celebrating, walking on the sideline, I see 25 (Harper) running down the field and I said, 'What the (heck) is going on' Ben made a great play on that. That was the play of the game. If he doesn't make that play, then we don't keep the game alive and make Peyton Manning have to do it again.

I was sleeping all week, but I just tasted blood right there. You're craving it when you haven't tasted it in a while. Now I'm thirsty for more.

I've been asleep all week but now I got woke up. I've got my first taste of blood and now I'm thirsty for more.

They don't want to play smash-mouth football. They want to trick you.