Bill Cowher Three Quotations

We've been in the playoffs for three weeks now. Nothing will change. We have something to build off now. We'll come back on Wednesday and understand what we have in front of us.

We settled for three field goals in the four times down there. It's something we can improve on and something we need to improve on.

Mr. Rooney was very supportive through three non-playoff years (1998-2000), and I'm very appreciative of his patience.

Mr. Rooney is a football guy. He wanted this business, and he was very supportive through the three non-playoff years, and I'm very appreciative of that, and will always understand that and appreciate that patience.

For us to come in and do what we did today, it took a supreme effort in all three phases, and had nothing short of that today.

We've got to play our A game in all three phases - offense, defense and special teams - or we're not going to win this Super Bowl.

His record speaks for itself. We came into the league together in 1992 and I have nothing but tremendous respect for him and what he did in Green Bay and now in Seattle. We served three years together on the NFL competition committee, so I got to know him more as a person. I think the world of him and Kathy and his daughters. It's funny that he's got four girls and I've got three girls, so we've got a lot in common.

I think we lost a little from the week off. We had won seven straight and those three road playoff wins had given us momentum. I think we lost a little of our sharpness.

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.

Maybe in two or three games, it's going to start to come together. I certainly want to see our first units go out and show some continuity. We don't need to be on all cylinders, but we need to show some positive steps.

We worked Thursday, Friday, Saturday (in Pittsburgh), and had three good days of work. I gave the team Sunday off as a transition day to take care of their families.

We only have three guys under contract at the safety position.

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've been playing well the last three weeks on the road, and we've got another fourth game on the road. I don't know if that's superstitious, but that's the way I'm thinking.

We were put in that situation when we lost those three games. We have to come back and win at home against Detroit and go on the road wherever we need to go.

Even at the end of the game, you can see what he gives you, that extra two, three yards. I have so much appreciation for him, more than I can even express. We've been through a lot together.

The officials said we didn't move on offense. But they didn't touch anybody on defense. But they had three guys in the backfield and they stopped the play with no call. That was bizarre.

(The officials) said that we didn't move on offense, but they didn't touch anybody on defense, but we had three guys in our backfield and they stopped the play with no call. That was bizarre.

Defensively we played a pretty good game. We gave up only three points. We didn't give up a touchdown. But we've got to play better than we did.

It's not like we're building this big building and starting at floor three and just finishing this thing off. We're back at the foundation. We're back at the bottom ground, building our way up.

That's probably the one position given our status there, we only have three guys under contract at the safety position, we'll have to address the numbers issue there.

I'm their biggest fan every Sunday; they go out there and play. I'm pulling for them, for the people in New Orleans and everything they're going through. If there are three or four hours that people can get away from the reality that is existing for them right now, the uncertainty, the unknown, the Saints can bring a sense of pride to them for that short period of time.

These kids are still maturing as people. I've watched players we've had mature tremendously in a short time, and then sometimes it takes players three or four years. These are still young men. You can't ever lose sight of that.

The circumstances are such that we don't have a choice. We were put in that situation by losing three games in a row. We know the path that is ahead of us. It's a tough journey, but the guys are looking forward to it.