Rod Smith Quotes (49 Quotes)

The first time I saw a poll in this election, they had me at 4 percent. That's the good news. The bad news was that the margin of error was 5 percent. I'd like to think that meant I was at 9 percent.

I think this was done a little underhanded. I didn't even hear about any outside proposals until two months ago. After working for the city for 30 years and helping put this whole project together, its like a slap in the face.

They played better. Opportunities are limited in this business. When you get them, you have to take advantage of them. We didn't take advantage.

I loved playing with (Zimmerman). The guy had a separated shoulder in a game and didn't give up a sack. It's amazing. He's an amazing player, and one that young guys in the league can learn from from a know-how and toughness standpoint.

If we get that touchdown, we're up 7-6 going into the half, and the game is different. There's too many opportunities that we blew, and we blew them -- all 11 of us. It's not one guy, it's the entire offensive unit. We take blame for everything each other does.

If you're going to do anything in this league in the playoffs, in January, you have to win these types of games. This is a playoff game, this is a playoff atmosphere and when you come out on the low end of it you really got to rethink what you're doing and how you're doing it and go back to work.

We're a team. We just have a bunch of guys that love to play football, and we're playing together and for each other each and every week. 'Do it for me, I'm doing it for you.' That's our thing.

It is a lot of pressure, but there is pressure on all of us, and the thing is, you have to do whatever you have to do to get yourself back on the field. Sometimes, they don't have time to go and get treatment or they don't have time to do the little extra things to try and get their bodies where it needs to be. I say, 'That's your fault.' The trainers can only treat you if you are there, and if you don't let them know things are happening, you will be the one suffering in the end.

If you want to fix the schools, pay the teachers better, recruit the best and the brightest back into the classroom, give them the authority to run the classes, educate them so that we're doing something besides becoming just an FCAT test center.

There are a lot of guys who might be the best, but I'd have to say Chris McAlister. I've played against him a few times and honestly he gets better each time I face him. He just seems to keep maturing in their system, and he's a talented guy. He's a guy who was voted to the Pro Bowl about one or two years later than he deserved to be because he's someone who they can put on the other team's best receiver and just expect him to hold that guy in check.

It's always the captain's job to have 10 plans ready at all times, ... We're ready for surprises. It's not really an adventure unless you encounter a few surprises along the way.

I hung out with him (Tuesday) night. We hung out at the beach (Tuesday), and he was showing me around. This is his turf. He's well-loved around here, and it's well-deserved.

Howard Cosell had many detractors as a commentator on Monday Night Football, but he also helped drive up ratings. When you heard that voice, you knew a big-time event was going on, ... Still, to this day, no one could ever emulate the things he had done. . . . He made it exciting to watch Monday Night Football.

We knew this was going to be our night. We knew it all week. This was one of those special weeks. We heard all week about how there was no way New England could lose. We had a great week and knew this was going to be the night.

We had a good season, but it's still a failure to me. That's in my eyes, that's nobody else's opinion, that's my opinion because I know what it's like to hold the trophy at the end. But anything less than that is a failure to me. . . . When we needed it the most, we didn't get it. Their team was better.

That's Mike (Shanahan's) deal. I was still in depression mode until I came over here from the regular season, so a lot of those things like that don't really effect me right now, so I don't worry about it.

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My background is one of a guy who actively worked on the side of labor when I could have gone to the other side. They're not going to have to educate me or inform me - I understand their concerns.

I was actually at my house -- the house I'm building -- sweeping up trash during the Super Bowl. I went home, took a shower, got something to eat, read a book, went to sleep and then I woke up and it was over. I checked to see who won.

We go out and do drills with them because a sailboat is an unusual thing for them to tow, ... And anytime they want to sail, they can give us a call and we'll take them out sailing. I know what they do, it's hard work. Anytime they want to go up river and eat oysters, we'll take them.

I hope he buys a Rolls-Royce and lets me drive it.

You think Plummer cares about how people are receiving him outside the locker room Look at his face. Look at his hair. He don't care. He just wants to win a football game.

I remember (Clerk of the Court) Buddy Irby opened the courthouse at night for us. It was round-the-clock. In my life I've never put as much focus on something as I did on the prosecution of Danny Rolling.

Injuries are part of the game. We always put 11 out there. And that is going to be our 11 for that play or that day. That's all we can work with. We can't work with who's down or whatever, we just have to hold it together until the guys come back. The season is long. We're just seven games in, and we've got a long way to go.

I tell all the young guys, when it's all done, it's about performance. When you get the chance, you have to make some plays . . . that's just the way it is.

We're not very good, not very sharp right now. We didn't do anything in the middle of the field. Our guys did a good job in the red zone, but we have to take that same mentality to the middle of the field.

Some of those guys are going to have to grow up quick because in this business they are not going to wait on you. We still have to move forward whether you are here or not. You just hope they have a speedy recovery and they are out there showing their teammates what they can do, and when guys are not dressed out, it's hard to see.

I don't think that's something the governor makes decisions about. I'm going to let local government decide whether a dog gets to go in. I hope they do.

I'm tired of hearing that (expletive). The people that keep bringing that up, tell them to find something else to write about.

It was a prioritization that said tax cuts are the central need of government. It didn't talk about how we need to invest in schools.

I didn't watch one snap of the Super Bowl. It was nothing against the teams that were in it. I was still in depression.

I'm p---ed off, trust me. But what can I do about it now All I can do is go to work tomorrow (and) look at the tape hard.

I've been wanting to do this since I was 10 years old,

People want to focus on this for political reasons rather than focus on the underlying issues that we ought to talk about, which are adoption, parenting, prevention. I hope we can do that. I see nothing right now that tells me that we need to make changes to the existing body of law in this state.

My strategy from Day One was to reconstruct the traditional base of the Democratic Party labor, working families and agriculture, and the legal community. We have taken labor for granted. We think getting the endorsement of the union leader means you get the votes.

We saw Robert's number, and it said 'sail only,' then we saw it was a 541 number,

You've got those two guys, and both of them want to be the other one, but it's fun. That's the thing. Those guys know what they do and how they really make their money. They get the chance to go on the other side of the ball and mess around a little bit.

I've seen a lot of excitement around the state as the Democrats are growing. I got in this race for two reasons I can win and I can make a difference.

This is one of the best teams we've brought in here in the last six or seven years and we still found a way to come out on the low end.

That's just me. I'm kind of nerdy like that because it benefits me it makes my job easier. At the same time it helps me keep my job I don't have to feel threatened by other guys. Now I do it to where I study coordinators I study those guys because they have certain tendencies and patterns of what they want to do.

He's in total control. He's the guy that you see when he leaves every week he's got a bag of tapes with him. The rest of us get DVDs, Jake gets a bag of tapes that he takes home to study to make sure that he can put all of us in the right position.

We had a customer, old Col. Franklin. His doctor was in Los Angeles and his house was on Balboa Island. His big decision was, should he move closer to his doctor or stay close to the gas station so we could take care of his cars That's the kind of station Jim ran.

I see him leading a team, I see him leading an organization.

It helps us physically and mentally because we play well at home. And you want other teams to come to your place with that doubt that 'They play well at home.' It doesn't mean everything. I've been in the playoffs where we've lost at home against Jacksonv

That's a huge accomplishment for them to be able to do that. I envy what they've done. It's not a matter of being jealous. I envy it. I'm not afraid of it. At the same time, it's a great opportunity to hopefully be the team that can say we stopped the run they've had.

For us, that was like heaven.

I think it was time for Jake to move out of the situation he was in and get a fresh start. And the Pro Bowl quarterback that you see now is something that's probably been in him all the time. He's finally getting a chance to go out on the football field and put those skills to work.

I don't know exactly what he's done, but whatever it is, I like it. Honestly, the guy has a renewed life for the game. His spirit uplifts everyone else. He plays the game with a passion that a lot of people don't see and that same passion he plays with on Sunday is what we see in practice (in) the attention to detail. He's always studying, he's always focused on the task at hand. Then, right after that, he'll crack a joke.

And it isn't always talent. There are lots of talented guys outside these walls who can't get in. It ain't just talent. Guys want to say it is, but it's only one piece of the puzzle. They learn that or they do something else for a living.