Bill Cowher Best Quotations

We're playing our best football at the right time of the year.

Mile High is a tough place to play, and we're going to have to play our best to beat them.

He's a very poised quarterback. That's the best way I could state it,

I think it's a sign of a good football team when you come out and not play your best football and still win the game.

I think Willie is a guy who has seized an opportunity. For the first two games he got over 100 yards. We didn't really run the ball that well against New England, but Willie is a guy who has a lot going for him and the best is still ahead of him.

I think throughout the course of these playoffs, I think we're a football team. We have had really great weeks of work. We're playing our best football at the right time of the year. It was tough to do what we had to do to go to the three places and win those games. They were all challenges in themselves.

Our officials are doing the very best that they can do. Obviously, at times, there's going to be mistakes made. To me, those guys are human like the rest of us, and we're moving on.

Options are cool. I think we should play it safe and just beat the Lions. But we can't take them lightly. Well, we can, and we probably will, but we'll disguise it well. Like Harrington said earlier, Detroit is riding a one-game winning streak, and their kicking game is on fire. We know Detroit will give us their best shot, so we better bring our C game at worst.

We've got some work ahead of us, there's no question. You just don't pick up where you left off. It doesn't work that way. We're going to lose some guys in free agency, probably. We'll try our best to keep as many of them around as we can.

We played our tails off defensively. We made the plays on offense when we had to. The sign of a good football team is when you (don't) play your best football and still win the game.

We won the game, but we certainly didn't play our best game. We're going to have to play better if we want to move on. There's no question we were fortunate. But we won the game and that's what is most important.

This will be a good barometer for us because this is by far the best team we've played and maybe will play. They are a football team that is not used to losing at all. For them to come off a tough loss against Carolina has really probably compounded the challenge that we have.

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here. You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

We did not play to our ability and the standards that we've set here, ... You like to think that it's something that is correctable. Sometimes you're going to have a day like that. ... We did not have our best game.

When you get to this point in the season, there are not a lot of surprises. You have a couple of very good football teams that want to put together their best game plan, and then execute it in detail. There are usually three or four opportunities in any game to make the right play, and have an effect on the outcome. This game probably won't be any different.

We kind of weathered the storm. We felt like at halftime we had kind of taken their best shot.

We missed him. Yeah, we won some games, but this guy is one of the best at his position in the National Football League and is recognized as such.

Did we play our best game? No. But when you're a good football team you don't have to play your best game, you just keep responding to the situations that come up.

Duce probably had his best day of work, but will still be questionable. Jerome is coming along quite well.

There's no question that he's the best there is when he's healthy. He was an integral part of our defensive success before the injury, and we expect him to be part of the future as well. He has worked very hard to come back, so we're not worried about him at all.

It's not like there haven't been times when we have brought in other long-snappers. The guy we brought in is good. He's the best guy we've brought in to challenge Mike.

I'm not sure we were the best team last year. I think we played the best at the right time of year.

The last time we played here, I think we were probably too determined to run the ball. We're at our best when we have balance.