Corey Simon Quotations

We have to go into the playoffs firing on all cylinders. I don't think we're there yet.

When you can shut down a player like Michael Vick, you're doing something good. He had nowhere to go. The same plays that worked last week wouldn't work this week. Then he was forced to throw, and that played right into out hands.

Simon told The Philadelphia Inquirer. ''I had a great five years, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

My ego is not that big where I need to feel I'm the missing link to this defense or anything like that. We're playing together and playing as a unit. Guys in the system have gotten better, they're understanding the system more and we're playing assignment football.

I don't know whether to fault the seamstress or the guy I was playing against.

I feel good, I feel 100 percent. It's playoff time, and I'm ready to go.

I get into it. I don't want to have to think about things when I get out on the field on Sunday, so I get into it as much as I can. I want to make sure everything comes second nature to me.

He's all speed. A fast guy. Quick. A pass-rushing defensive tackle, which is rare.

Just really being able to sit down with him and pray with him about what was going on in my family and in my life really put things in perspective in terms of where he puts this game and life in general.

I think we have our own unique way of doing things here. These guys are hungry, they are young and they want to get better. They want to make a name for themselves.

It had nothing to do with rust. (Sunday), (the Steelers) had the breaks, they played well. They played well enough to win.

Over the past few years, this team has done some tremendous things, and hopefully I can be the piece of that puzzle to move them a little further. I missed out on a Super Bowl ring last year, and I'm very excited about being here, because I think the possibility of obtaining one here is beyond our wildest dreams.

We can't worry about who they have playing or who they don't have playing or where they're getting their emotional lift. This is Monday Night Football. This is a huge game where everybody is watching. If you can't come out with the intensity you need to play, you don't have a pulse.

We're just as disappointed, if not more so,

We lay our hearts on the line every week. It doesn't hurt anybody more than it hurts us.

Tonight was a great start for the defense. It's time for this defense to step up.

This team is poised to make a big run starting with this week. We've not played a meaningful game in a month. Guys are just ready to get out there and play a meaningful game with title implications behind it.

We knew it was going to be a fight when Marvin got a personal foul. That's a rarity. But he held his own. He's a fighter.

We knew if we could just get one big play we'd be OK. Cato got that interception and we turned it around from there.

To hold a team out of the end zone for 60 minutes - anyone in this league - it's tough.

We just need to take this step and move forward. We can't rest our head on what we did this week and then go out next week and not play well. We need to continue to improve.

We just wanted to go out today and play a physical ballgame and show the world that we can do that when we need to.

We just wanted to go out and play a physical ballgame and show the world that we can do that when we need to.

Did you see how he made that guy miss last week? Jerome is a tough guy to get your hands around. He doesn't give you a whole lot. He just gives you shoulder pads and knees.

Andy (Reid) and I, we talked and we talk outside of football. So when he called me up and said, 'Corey, listen, I'm going to let you go,' he knew that that was a tremendous opportunity for me, and they were comfortable in the position in that they were moving to get some of those young guys in there. And from a business standpoint, it saves them some money. So there are no hard feelings.

Dungy said. ''He's really a power player, a physical presence inside. He's much bigger than we've had inside.

There's something to play for every week. I like to win. I'm always here to win. I don't care if quarters are on the line, or pennies are on the line, a win is always great. We've got things to play for, clear into February.

So often, our offense gets a lot of credit. They've done great things, but it's time for the defense to get a name for ourselves and play hard and be just as good as our offense.

Psychology. Oh gosh. This is football. It's not psychology class. ... This team needs to beat New England because that's who we play this week. That's the only reason.

You play this game hard and you put everything into it to go out and play well, but as a professional, you never want to see a guy go down. The worst guys I hate playing against are those who have no regard for another's livelihood.

It's one or two plays that get you beat, and hopefully I can go out there and provide some of those plays that won't get us beat. That's what seasons hinge on.

Everybody wants to win and it's going to take everybody in this locker room to get it done. There's no one guy that's going to ever come in and change the atmosphere of the whole team. ... It's never a one-man show out there.

Talk to us about 16-0, ... when we're 15-0.

I didn't expect them to lift the tag, ... This gives me a chance to be a free agent, but I have mixed feelings. I'm going to miss the guys I played with there and the coaches I played under. I had a great five years, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

I didn't expect them to lift the tag. I had a great five years, and I enjoyed every minute of it.

I couldn't tell you. I haven't been on the scales in a little while. But I've done things this offseason that I haven't done in the past. I've run the stadium steps over at Doak Campbell. I just want to get down to where I play my best, whatever weight that is. I just want to be where I feel comfortable out there.

He called me up and said, 'Corey, you know, listen, I'm going to let you go,' ... He knew that was a tremendous opportunity for me. And they were comfortable in the position that they were moving, getting some of those young guys in there. And from a business standpoint, it saves them some money. So there were no hard feelings. It was somewhat of a surprise because I had the tag on me all offseason.

These guys pinned their ears back and got after it. I kind of challenged these guys before we walked out there. I said, 'Let's make a name for ourselves on defense. Our offense has just been so great over the last few years. People say this defense is not comparable, but this was a first step to disproving that.