Sheldon Brown Quotes (27 Quotes)


    I felt it was a biased panel. If they couldn't get people to represent the other side of this, then they shouldn't have held it. I might have learned something if there were two sides represented. It wasn't an open forum.

    Obviously our main motivation is to get back to the Super Bowl and win it this time,


    When I heard the apology, I thought it was sincere. But then Drew opened his mouth and ruined it. Its sad because it sounded like (Owens) was crying out for help.

    Everyone wants to say we didn't win championship games without a big-play receiver. Well, our big-play receiver was hurt last year and we won a championship game.


    I thought it was a sincere apology, but Drew ruined it, ... It was T. O.'s press conference, and then I had to hear from his agent longer than I heard from the player.

    We're thinking playoffs. But we have to play every game like it's our last. Because we know that if we don't, it could be our last.

    We learned how to handle it in the future. You get a good strong nucleus of teammates get together and talk to the guy. You sit him down and say, we understand you have problems with them but our common goal is to win football games and to be a Super Bowl team and then we all get what we want.

    Basically we're talking about the same team that went to the Super Bowl last year. So what was the problem We had too many mental mistakes. How do you correct that We had 16 guys on the injured list, and they were guys we were depending on to make plays. If we get those guys back, I think we'll be very competitive.

    I stand behind (Eagles management) 100 percent, ... I don't know how much a man can take. I think Andy's been fair. He's given him a lot of opportunities.

    He didn't alienate every player. He did talk to some teammates. We all have to drop our egos, period, and become a unit. He has to put his trust in management that they'll do the right thing in the long run. Only he can decide that. Everyone in here has a job to do.

    How many times do you get a blocked field goal and the ball happens to bounce into a guy's hands running toward the end zone I mean, never.

    It's a painful injury, but the thing is, once you warm it up and you can keep it loose, you can deal with it, ... The bad part is, once it tightens up and gets stiff, it aggravates it.

    He didn't see me and probably felt he could connect on the deep slant.

    Truthfully, we're like big kids. You know how little kids have no attention spans Well, ours aren't much better. You leave us out there for hours and hours, you're going to lose us.

    It's hard to listen to negative criticism for a week. But it's good to look it in the face and be a man about it. You need a whipping every now and then to let you know you aren't as good you think you are.

    He seems to be dealing with it better than I was. Some days are better than others. The best thing about it is that you can't make it any worse.

    We're all professionals here -- been there, done that. We have leaders in this locker room. It really doesn't matter. If they brought him back, we'd still have a job at hand to do. . . . We believe we can get it done. We just came off a Super Bowl season, so why wouldn't we think that

    I think a lot of the leaders here were young guys and we expected management to handle the situation, that they'd explain what the rules and regulations were. That didn't happen.

    There were a lot of strange things. But we're going to have a great season. All of the strange things that did happen, it doesn't matter anymore. ... We're ready to play football.

    I think it was a matter of those guys wearing down and we got stronger.

    Any time he steps on the football field, he makes a difference. But we can do it with the guys we have.

    Donovan has always been the leader of this team. That's always the case with every team. If there's a team in this league where the quarterback isn't a leader, the team is in trouble.

    It sounded like he was crying out for help. I think he's sincere in his apology, but it may be too late. He may have burned all his bridges.

    He was one of my favorite teammates. He worked me like crazy in practice. I'm still trying to figure out the other part of him. It's not about the money with him. But it's the only way he thinks he can talk to the organization, by saying things about the quarterback.

    I don't care what Hugh says. Quite frankly, the guys I am playing with I trust, and I trust the leaders we have. I am around them every day, and Hugh isn't around them every day.

    He seems to be doing better than I did with it, and I thought I did pretty well, ... His mental toughness is second to none, and that's what'll get him over the hump.


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