Ryan Clark Quotations

We were asked to get pressure on them. They wanted to pressure us. It was two sides that wanted to dictate. We weren't going to let them dictate the pace to us, and they weren't going to let us dictate to them. Neither was going to give in, and so it became our speed against theirs.

We're looking forward to that. Hopefully, we get a couple new kids in that are pretty good and improve on what we're already doing.

My hat goes off to No. 8. He played a phenomenal game and, single-handedly, he worked to beat us.

He helped our team morale just to have him out there with the kind of enthusiasm he has. Sometimes people look at players and say, 'Oh, he's big-headed,' and this and that. But he just wanted to play and it really showed and he enjoyed himself and had a great time and it rubbed off on us.

I talked to everybody, and they got out safely. The only thing I'm concerned about is their being able to get back to their homes, so I'd appreciate it if everybody would pray for them.

You just want to come to a winner.

You know what you're going to get from him every week, and that's what's best for us. I know it's the reason why we're good this year. We take the same approach every week.

We haven't gotten any continuity back there with guys being comfortable playing together. It's tough. That can make you a step slower.

We don't have any stars. We don't have a Pro Bowl player on defense, which I don't think is fair because we definitely have guys who play like it. There's no egos on our team. Everybody wants to play everybody.

We're coming at him like we're coming at any veteran quarterback. You never know, he may be on his way to a Pro Bowl. You have to play him that way.

When you have a guy like that with a great offensive line and great skill people around him, he is going to thrive. I think it's more so their whole team than one player.

We were down seven and needed to make a stop, give our offense a chance. We didn't do it. We fought, but this is not boxing. We've got to win football games.

You get the MVP out of the game and you are supposed to stop them, and we didn't. It wasn't really the type of game he wanted to be in. Our goal was to get the MVP out of there. Not as far as injury, but just eliminate him from the game and make them one-dimensional. That is what happened.

I've been proving people wrong for a long time,

Coach Williams was on us all day. It felt like a practice after we lose a game. He won't let you get too high. But when he needs to be positive about things, he is.

A lot of people say I play with a chip on my shoulder, ... I don't have a chip. I'm in the NFL; there's no chip. I'm just excited to be playing, and excited to get the chance I've been given here. And I want to keep making the guys who gave me a chance look good, and the people who didn't look bad. I do relish that, but I've been proving people wrong for a long time.

It was a very good play by him. He made a good adjustment to the ball and I didn't. I've got to do a better job. When I looked, I thought the ball was going to come to one side. It actually came to the other, which is something they practice.

It's a wonderful day. I was at the airport, swinging my terrible towel. I was with a team with a great fan base now -- they're going to hate me for this -- but I'm with a team with an even better one. The beauty of it is I'm coming to a team that's already great. I'll just try to fit in and be part of this great organization.

It's the first game, but there's no excuses,

It just hasn't come. I think they will come, and when they come, they'll start coming in bunches. But isn't it better to be talking about why haven't we created turnovers when we're 3-1, instead of why haven't we created turnovers at 0-4?

The beauty of it is that I'm coming to a team that's already great. I just want to fit in and be part of this great organization.

It'll be good to get Blue back. You could say he has a burr on, because he missed the first playoff game. Shawn likes to be the reason that we win, and since he didn't get to play, he can't take that claim.

I want to be here, and the Redskins have let me know they want me back, but we have a lot of cap trouble. We have to figure out a way to make something work that's in both of our best interests. The money doesn't even have to be equal. It just has to be close to what someone else offers for me to stay.

I'm sure it will help him in the polls. But, whatever. He gets my vote.

I look at him like, hmmm, I just tackled him.

I really don't know, ... nor can I really worry about it. One thing we know from last year is there's no telling who's going to play. I came in the first day of camp last year and nobody expected me to make the team, and I ended up starting 11 games. No matter who we put out there, he's going to be ready to play.

Being physical, that's going to be the key for us. They are going to take those 2-yard and 5-yard passes ... But when a guy catches a 2-yard pass and they hit them in the mouth, they don't like that.

Ice water. He probably doesn't understand right now. He's getting himself a job somewhere if (injured) John Hall comes back. Nick Novak is going to be an NFL kicker.

Ice water, ... He probably doesn't understand right now. He's getting himself a job somewhere if (injured) John Hall comes back. Nick Novak is going to be an NFL kicker.