Michael Strahan Quotes (90 Quotes)

To be honest, that's the last body part I'm concerned about because it doesn't bother me in the least. There's no residual effect at all. Look, I'm here to play and if I go out there and something else gets hurt, that's part of football.

This is truly a playoff game. That's the way you have to look at it. It's going to be a good test for us. If we can come out of this test, it will make us ready for whatever else is in the future.

It is something like basically getting stabbed in the heart. These are the type of games you look back on at the end of the season and just hope they don't hurt you.

I always have a lot of personal goals, but primarily my main goal each year is to obviously win a Super Bowl.

It's scary. I've never seen anyone who's so quick, and fast, and powerful, and is such a smart football player. In my opinion, and I know he's gotten a lot of accolades, but he's probably the best all-around football player in the league.

I think everyone's been disciplined. Everyone's been in the gaps they're supposed to get in and guys are making gang tackles, not waiting for guys to make the play, and everybody's running to the ball.

I feel good about myself and I feel good about the team. We're ready. I feel like guys are hungry. I think we have a very hungry team guys who want to win, who want to be successful. So we'll do whatever it takes and work as hard as we must to do it. And I think we're talented, and that makes it even more exciting.

Well, I've been a fan of videogames all my life.

I feel fresh, ... And I appreciate playing. Every time I step on the field, every play, I look at it as it could be my last. The realization of that definitely has me feeling that I'd better take advantage of every snap that I can.

My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.

Coming out here and taking teams lightly will get us beaten. They threw the ball up and had some fun with it. It's not as if they were just lining up and saying 'Come and get him.' We all know if they did that, they wouldn't have had success throwing the ball. We gave up easy plays defensively. To make things easy is frustrating.

Compared to the other teams, it definitely seems like a younger team to me. But I think that everybody here has the same motivation, the same desire to go out there and win these games and put us in the Super Bowl. That is everybody's goal. There is no doubt in anybody's mind that we can do that as long as we play the way we are capable of playing.

It depends what you do with it those six times. If you do like Moss or T.O. does, you definitely have the right to say whatever you say because there are only a few guys who can change a game in the course of a few plays.

When I saw Toomer catch it and there were no flags, it was the most excited I've been around here in a long time.

I'm sure he's not happy with the way he left the Giants. I'm sure I wouldn't be if that were the same situation in my case. But at the same time, it's not Kerry Collins against the Giants. It's Raiders against Giants. One guy can have a vengeance, but you have to go out and play the game as an entire team.

Everybody's professional. Nobody's an idiot. Nobody's a jerk. We all know each other. So it's not like we see each other in the city and we run over and bust the window out of their car with a baseball bat or nothing. We're all friends.

So I'd rather have a defense that's successful where everyone's comfortable in their positions.

I'm glad he's a Manning. Maybe it's in the blood.

Today was a morale-builder for us. We've played better and we've played worse. But hopefully, this will be the start of an upswing that can take us through the postseason.

He's young. You know what If you don't believe that maybe you shouldn't be here. They believe they are the best. We believe we are the best. We are not bad at all. In my opinion we are the best because I am part of that combo.

There have been three guys I've been around who, personality-wise, have been the most inspirational,

Is it possible to respect someone and hate their guts ... It is Then, we've accepted it.

(It) is a lot better. My eye opened up (Sunday) and felt like it was droopy all day. It has opened up a little bit better. I can see it is a little bit more black and blue, but I just have to put my modeling career on hold for a few weeks.

We had a lot of mistakes, a lot of things that potentially could hurt us. If we can eliminate those things and continue to do everything else the way that we're doing, I think the sky is the limit.

This feels like a blown opportunity. We should've won. ... You're not going to win when you handicap yourself.

When we make our minds up, we can play with anybody.

We'd stopped them a couple of times to help us get back in the game, but we come out in the second half and can't get the job done. That's very frustrating.

It's incredible to watch those guys move the ball, control the clock and put up points.

You can be disappointed you didn't wrap it up, which I am sure we are. At the same time, it would be even more disappointing if we didn't have another chance. We have another chance. We're disappointed. We're upset. Everybody is mad. But it's not over.

Who says we are that good anyway One week we're worse than dirt, and then the next week we are better than sugar.

It was great to be back out there playing with some live action and getting to hit another team.

Today's defensive performance was absolutely amazing. It goes to show that when we make our minds up, we can play with anybody, because the Cowboys are a good team.

He's confident. He can see it right now every time he takes a snap and drops back.

Tim Lewis is great, he's a great coordinator.

When I finish playing football, I would like to work with kids and sleep!

Everyone talks about who is the best receiver in the game. In my opinion, when you go back and look at numbers, (Holt) probably is the best receiver in the game.

I'm enjoying this more than I ever have, ... I think when you're not playing, you realize that you're not going to play forever. But when you do get the chance to play again, you appreciate it that much more.

It's been amazing the last two weeks. Corey Webster has done a really good job, you can tell he played receiver in college the way he goes after the ball.

At the same time, it makes me feel like I have to prove myself to the new guys coming in as well as prove myself to the coaching staff, which is a good bit of motivation for me.

We all know there have been some cases in which guys have crossed the line. I'm pretty sure there are more that haven't been caught. When you have those situations ... it absolutely can hurt the team.

He is going to be a great head coach. I'll be really surprised if he doesn't get a job somewhere. He's done a great job with this unit and he's made it exciting. He's made me want to go out there and play like I was young again. I'm proud to play for Tim and, unselfishly, I hope I'm not playing for him next year.

That's probably one of our biggest spikes on our team, that whole combination of the three guys inside, one who is an aggressive linebacker who can run like the wind and two tackles who are athletic and strong. That's why people can't run on us - the middle has been pretty stout.

Guys are just thoroughly enjoying playing for him right now. I think that's a testament that this is his team and we're here to do whatever we need to do to in. His focus isn't to make things hard on us, his focus is to make sure we're prepared to win football games.

I think he's definitely been under more pressure before. He's smart enough to realize in the long run it's still just a game anyway. It's a playoff game and maybe the tempo picks up a little bit more, and of course everything is at stake, but at the same time it's still football.

I thought Seattle was a very good team, but did I expect them to be in the Super Bowl I thought if they were going to be there they'd have to go through us.

Usually, when you have a young quarterback out there, you think, 'Just don't turn it over,' ... Let your other superstar players give us a chance to win. Well, with Eli back there, he is the superstar player. He's the guy who's going to make those plays.

It was a punch to the face. There are other ways to block people. He said it was an accident, so I'll have to take him at his word. But it's dangerous to go at somebody's head to stop them. You can end somebody's career by poking them in the eye. But I'll be okay.

Camp is always all business.

We're sympathetic, but once you step on the field, football's football.

All camps are hard, that's what they're intended to be. They make you focus when you're tired, when you don't feel like doing things, and to see how long you can retain and pay attention.