Michael Boulware Quotes (24 Quotes)

It didn't take long at all to get used to each other. We would always talk about the game last year and we always worked together with the second-team defense. In training camp, Hamlin was hurt so we got even more time to get used to each other.

to read the angles of receivers and how they're coming off the ball and what routes they're trying to give me and not get sucked up on the run. I'm still having trouble with that. I still get overanxious, and that is something I cannot do.

The timeout was a great coaching move because after that we got back in the groove, ... I guess that's why he's the head coach.

We don't care what anybody thinks about us. (We don't care) what the analysts say. We're going to play our game on Sunday. If we win and they still don't think we're the best, we really don't care.

It was really scary. I mean, he was in a situation where he had the potential to die. Super Bowl, all that is nothing compared to someone's life. That was a very, very hard time, a very emotional time for our team.

In a championship game, you can't afford any mistakes. I thought I was going to be able to swat the ball down. I just completely missed it and he caught it, and he just beat me on that play.

There's no bulletin board. We had one in college, but not here.

There's a lot of new faces, a lot of younger guys, but I think they're building something great here. Once we get that chemistry together and that confidence of playing together, then I think we'll be a dominant defense. We still have a long ways to go, but we have great potential.

I was very surprised. I was concerned about being able to walk again, and even possibly having to retire. And the possibility to maybe play in this game is very exciting and motivating for me.

It wasn't that we put extra guys on him or did anything different. The corners played a sound game they weren't cheating up or anything. The safeties were over the top. The defensive line put on good pressure. That's why it looked like we were all over the place Everyone was where they should be.

When it happened, it was really a shock. It blew us away. It's one thing to get hurt but to get hurt almost to the point of death....We had to take it day by day and hope for the best.

I never really did like linebacker. In high school I played receiver. I was already undersized. I never got over 220, ... Back at safety, I'm starting to have a love for the game again. In college it was more like a job that I had to do to get an education and get a job and make money. But now I'm doing it for the love again.

It is motivation for us, but that's just a glimpse of our season. Every game we've been the underdogs, and people have not picked us to do well and have thought that we've been lucky the whole year and that we would never make it to the Super Bowl. Here we are, and we're here to show the world that we're a good team and that we're the best.

It kind of reminds me of my brother's Peter team in Baltimore. They got there, and they were kind of young like we are, made a lot of mistakes. Sooner or later they came around to be the No. 1 defense of all time. That's what I'm hoping will happen here.

The possibility to play this game is very exciting and very motivating. The play I got hurt on, I played a little tentative, and I think it made me realize that if you played tentative you're going to get hurt.

Steve Smith deserves that kind of credit, and you know you have to give him that kind of respect. But we wanted to show people that we deserved to be here, that we also deserved that kind of respect. We knew we were better than what people were saying about us.

We've been overlooked the whole season. Now we've shown the world we deserve to be here. We knew we were better than people were saying. I think we got that point across.

We think we should be mentioned with the top defenses in the league. We haven't really gotten the credit we think we deserve.

Hey, if he's willing to risk it, I'm willing to give it, too. We're all excited. We couldn't wait for him to come back.

They're right. I make a lot of plays off other people's tipped balls or missed tackles.

It's been amazing how he's stepped up into the leadership role and made big plays. He's been a big asset to this team on the field and in the locker room. Coming in as a rookie, you didn't know if he was going to make the plays. Then he started making plays, so I figured he'd hit the wall. But that never happened. He's just gotten better and better.

I thought everybody used the 12th Man. I can't believe they're really serious about it. I know for me, as a defensive player, our 12th Man is huge. I need the 12th Man. They give us an advantage. I just hope this thing just goes away.

The attention is nice at first, but it gets kind of old. You just want to focus on the game. Now we can really focus on game and not worry about what we have to say. It's going to be a relief.

There's definitely a lot more at stake when you mess up. At linebacker, when I made a mistake, I knew my safeties and corners were going to back me up. Now, if I mess up, the only person who is going to help me is the ref.