Marshall Faulk Understand Quotations

I think that in a sense you just have to be honest with yourself and what you can and can't do and understand what you want to get out of this game and what you want to do. And I want to win. My personal accomplishments aren't as important to me; winning is. I think the combination of myself and Steven gives us, as a team, a better opportunity to win. With the work that he's going to put in, he deserves to be the starter.

In my mind and my heart, I feel like I'm the better player. But I feel like I'm better than anybody who ever played the game, but that's just how it is, that's the only way you can succeed. And in his mind, he (Jackson) feels like he's the better player and the best player who has ever played the position. You have to have that attitude to succeed, but you can't have the ego to the point where you don't understand how him starting and me playing the role helps the team.

This is a business and you've got to understand that. I always speak in business terms in this game and I learned that when I was young.

You have to understand that although it's a game and it's my career and it's my life and it provides a living for me and my family, it's a business to the people who own it.

Coach Martz and me, we've shared some great times, some all-time highs. But we're all realists. We understand the situation.