Kareem McKenzie Quotations

Right now is the time you want to start winning. Win on the road, then go to the playoffs and keep winning. That?s how you get to a Super Bowl.

To compete that next weekend I would've thought was a setback because it wouldn't have given people a chance to deal with what was happening. To come together and try to play a football game and sort of smooth things over would have kind of cheated people out of their grieving.

There's still some growing pains to go through and some things he needs to work on himself like we all do. You have to let him develop on his own. You can't make him into the player you want him to be. He has to develop on his own as an athlete and be the general on the field. Different quarterbacks do it different ways. Right now, the main thing is let him do it the best way he sees fit.

You really don't like that, ... because it really kind of dawns on you that it's sort of a slap in the face because you don't have the prime-tine slot.

It's a risky business when you talk about the NFL. It's a dangerous job all around.

It really shouldn't make that big of a difference, if you think about it.

You think of all the sacrifices that people made before you so you can enjoy the freedom you have, playing a great sport like football. We were touching on that today four years ago, our resolve to be who we are as Americans, and we came back from it.

If you?re not winning you don?t feel all that good about yourself, and then teams look at what you haven?t done right in your recent games and try to exploit that.

These kids want to go to the next level of their sport -- they want to be in the limelight. The only way they see doing that is by going ahead and attracting the attention of these I-A coaches who want the strong athlete. They want the athlete that will make their program better.

You want to go to the playoffs winning, so you can get that swagger about yourself.

You want to go into the playoffs winning and get that swagger about yourself. If you go into the playoffs losing, you don't feel that great about yourself and teams look at the things you didn't do well and try to key on those things and make you look bad. You want to build up as the season progresses along.