Willie Anderson Quotes (40 Quotes)

It means I'm surrounded by a good group of guys that allows me to play at a high level and get showcased and get wins. Anytime you get an individual honor, to me, it always comes back to the guys around you. The guys I'm playing with on the offensive line - Bobbie Williams, Richie Braham, Levi (Jones) and (Eric) Steinbach - those guys allow me to go out and get my talent showcased because they're playing so well as a unit. Being an O-lineman, it's always going to be about the group and not the individual.

I have to make sure I'm not going to cost myself or the team some valuable time later in the season. It's going to be a long season.

Guys were infuriated. But I know him. He's not a dirty player. His momentum just kept him going into Carson. It wasn't a dirty play.

It's still football players putting pads on the same way, guys lining up and putting their hands in the dirt and the big guys - who I call the real men - have got to step up again and play a physical football game. We've got to play a physical football ga

It was a very disappointing end to a great opportunity however you have to look forward not back and what you take from the past is the experience you have learned at that level,

Guys have to realize that it took us 15 years to get here. It's not going to be easy for us. They don't start throwing you bones for another five, six, seven years. We've got to come to work, take the shovel, and break up the rocks with the sledgehammer. It's not going to be easy. It's just the hand that we've been dealt.

Our motto is still keep shoveling. We want to be the guys with the shovel in our hand, getting dirty and not getting all glamorized and Hollywood after two games.

The majority of the Scottish players were fantastic. They wanted to change and wanted to learn,

It's big. This game usually is down the line in October or November. Starting off, I think it's going to be a statement maker. I think it's going to make a statement for both cities.

I get tired of hearing about the Bengals' draft picks, ... They talk about picks in the early '90s. If you look at the picks we have had since I've been here, myself in '96, Takeo (Spikes) in '98 - then you had Reinard Wilson (in '97) and Akili (Smith in

I played with Peyton in the Pro Bowl. I told Peyton, 'You're a machine.' The information that spits out from him is in the form of touchdowns. Carson has a ways to go before he gets to that point. But he's definitely on pace to be that kind of student of the game.

The thing I focus on just before the snap is the inside half of the guy across from me. Coaches call it having 'big eyes.' You keep those big eyes focused on his inside number, the number that's right across from you, because that's the part of him that tells you where he's going to go. Whether he's going to make a move outside or try to bull-rush you.

It's about the same right now. It's just sore. I'm walking around like I'm 100 years old, but that's the life of the NFL lineman. It should relax by the end of the week, hopefully.

With me, coming form the Bengals and offensive lineman, I was automatically compared to Anthony Munoz, ... Any pass rusher, I don't care what team, has the expectation of being the next Bruce Smith, or Coy Bacon here in Cincinnati. People expect high sack totals, but Justin's game is much more than that.

We're tired, but we always know that they're three times more tired than we are because they're chasing the football. It speeds the game up.

We've had quarterbacks here in the past who had no idea what they were doing and, you know what -- we'd get our heads kicked in.

I think it's a different feel for our fans. In years past we have been packing it up at this time of the season. I think our fans have been caving it in, too. It's a new experience for everybody.

Physically I'm doing good. It's going to be a while before I get that game-type conditioning and get my second wind in the game.

Ever since I've been here, we've had slow starts. Before Marvin got here, we'd be winning meaningless games in December.

They tried to stretch me on the sideline but it kept getting worse and worse to the point that I couldn't move left or right. I couldn't bend down into a stance. I should have come out of the game but being stupid and stubborn. I gave up a sack being stubborn.

He's making huge plays. He's making plays that only a very few in the league can make.

Our job is to make those guys successful, ... We know no glory is going to come to us. But if we can get our quarterback throwing for 300 yards and after the game he's not limping and his jersey's not dirty, and Rudi's jersey is dirty and he's running, that's a good game for us.

Ray sat down with Paul and did research in coming up with drills and a plan just for me, ... We'd simulate everything. We'd do the two-minute drill. He'd rush me and if it was a five-yard gain, I'd sprint five yards. Or a 10-yard gain, or whatever it was.

Bratkowski has been preaching to us the last couple of years that our will to prepare to win has to be greater than our will to win. That's what the good football teams do. They out-prepare people. We have to get our young guys' football knowledge up. You don't need to run a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash to do it. We've got to play smart football.

Everybody was going with some type of injury. That's the type of character this team has now.

I just walked into his office and said, 'Your boy was real good in the huddle,' ... He kept everybody calm. I didn't sense any (anxiety) in his eyes or in his voice. We kind of fed off that.

We haven't done anything yet. We're judged at the end of the year, whether or not you're in the playoffs playing in the cold weather, or at home watching TV. That's how we're judged.

We all knew we needed coaching. We had a bad reputation of being an undisciplined team. We wanted direction. We wanted leadership. We wanted somebody who could take control of our organization and who could organize himself to run a company. That's what Marvin was doing.

I think it got too big for all of us. Everyone was saying that was the biggest game the city had seen in 15 years, and the whole momentum, the whole thing, got too big for us. So right now, we're trying to keep a level head, an even keel, not get too low or too high. Not get too excited too soon.

I haven't had double-digit wins since my second year in college. It feels good to get 10 wins. We still have to finish it off.

My dream has always been that this organization would be one that year-in and year-out would be in this position, and no more talking about what happened 14 years ago, that that was your last winning season.

The penalties hurt us but it's not the reason we lost. We committed a lot of penalties in games we won by blowouts. We just got beat tonight. I think this is the kind of game we'll look back on later in the year and become stronger because of it.

I feel 85 percent all of the time, ... You're not going to feel 100 percent. You can't.

Regular guys don't have that kind of attitude. Only elite guys have that temperament.

They tore up his deal. I would have taken value at that time. I hoped they would have let me ride into the sunset as a Bengal, like Jonathan Ogden as a Raven.

Today we ran from opportunities.

I almost died in the night water.

The last couple of years, we were sitting at home after being 8-8. We won five games down the stretch, but lost three or four early on that cost us. So we realize the importance.

These guys have been successful for years. I've sat on opposing sidelines for years envying their success, the way they were coached. Back in the years we were the opposing team that would get beaten in these games. I came out years ago and said I was mad that we weren't progressing.

I am delighted to be back, spending time with my family and use the experience I have, whether I am coaching the Under-14s at Sullivan Upper or coaching coaches at Level 3 (with the IRFU). It is good to be able to help people change,