Raiders Quotations

Why should I talk to you? I don't know where you're from.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.

I think one game we played the Oakland Raiders and Jack Tatum and I had an accident on the one-yard line. The only thing that Jack Tatum didn't do was wrap me up so I backed into the endzone backwards.

I like the Raiders. That's my favorite team.

In the 1980s, corporate raiders began mounting unfriendly takeovers of companies that could deliver higher returns to their shareholders - if they abandoned their other stakeholders.

When you walk out there, when you into that stadium, you walk out there with a presence. Mr. Davis called it a swagger. I just want to get back to the point where when we walk into a stadium, they know the Raiders are in town. And when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. ... We've got to create that attitude, and that's what I expect to do.

This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.

Once a Raider, always a Raider.

The greatness of the Raiders lies in their future.

My first season with Pittsburgh was 1969. We were still in the old NFL. My second year, we moved to the AFC when the leagues merged. I went to the Pro Bowl that season, and there must have been nine Raiders and nine Chiefs. I got to know all those guys.

I grew up a Raiders fan, ... I've seen it work.

I don't know what people see in Denver. They'll be battling the Raiders for the last slot in their division. I don't see greatness at all.

If a player wants to leave, and they don't want him to stay and don't really care about him any more, that's how I took it. It was bad communication from inside the Raiders organization. Some things were said about me that were disrespectful, and it made me feel like they didn't want me.

We have to be patient. We have to get our hands up and try to tip some passes or disrupt some passes. We watched them against the Raiders and Brady just keeps that machine going over there. They're still the defending Super Bowl champions, two years after we played them. That tells you something.

I was like, when do the Raiders come to town?

It comes back to team defense. I think you have to be careful about trying to stop one guy in this league. There are not too many teams that you play that have only have one player. The Raiders are a team that has, when they're on offense, 11 good ones and you better be ready to stop all of them. Not just one guy.

I think you have to be careful about trying to stop one guy in this league. There's not too many teams that you play that have only one player. The Raiders are a team that has, when they're on offense, 11 good ones and you better be ready to stop all of them.

Last week the Raiders advised they would be interested whether anything new had been uncovered in that area.

Last weekend I had to have tests done in a Dallas hospital, so I missed the Raiders game, the 18th,

I think he gets up to beat the Raiders almost as much as Marty.

I think Kerry was pretty upset. He enjoyed being in New York. He misses us as much as many of us miss him. It's going to be tough to see him wearing Raiders black and silver.

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat. Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

We beat two teams that people expected us to beat, ... Now, next week, that's when we're going to find out about the identity of this Oakland Raiders team.

We basically had the same core team through that period. But that was a really good Raiders team we lost to, and without Franco it was just too tough.

We can't allow ourselves to get in those situations, to give a team like the Raiders a 17-point lead in the first quarter,

The Raiders had a hard time with him. He wrecked the game, creating two turnovers that really iced the game. He's a fantastic player.

The Raiders deserve to be world champions. They dominated us.

The past is now the past and we have five years to make the Raiders economically viable. We have to be able to compete.

Ever since we approved the move of the Raiders and the Rams, I've been saying that our goal is to get a team back to L.A., either through expansion or whatever, and we're not going to be moving any teams into small markets, ... We're going to be moving up in market size, not either down or flat. That's our goal. So that's been my mindset.

Raiders East? ... We'll call them the Raiders West. Tampa Bay Buccaneers, man.

Back in his day, he really loved Jack Tatum. My father talked to me about him a long time ago when I was playing safety. But I wasn't a big Raiders fan.

A little over two weeks ago we were in California, and we just played the Raiders and we didn't know where we were going,

It's not Kerry Collins against the Giants. It's the Raiders against the Giants. It's this team against that team.

It's always been a tradition of the Raiders to keep former players and coaches involved in the game.

It may take us a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back.

It may take a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back. And that's one of the reasons we're going to depend on the great Art Shell to help us get that done.

It may take a short while, but we'll get that nastiness of the Raiders back.

It's better than what happened in the Raiders game,

I've known I wanted to do this ever since I was four years old and watched 'Star Search' for the first time. I mean, Harrison Ford in 'Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark?' My hero.

I was a big, big Raiders fan, and eventually, when I got the opportunity to meet him and be around him, it was like a dream come true. Man, with football, he was the Raiders to me. Listening to his broadcasts, it was like you were on the field and you could see the guys cut. 'He's at the 5, the 15, the 20!' I didn't even want to watch the games on TV -- because I could see it and feel it in Bill's voice.

I just want to get back to the point where ... when we walk into the Coliseum, the Raiders are here. And we're going to play in Black Bottom - we used to call it Black Bottom back in the day, now they call it the Black Hole. That's our home field. That's our home. You can't come in our back yard and win.

I'm sure it's no coincidence that we're on Thursday night, first game of the year. It's great. There's a lot of talk about the Raiders right now, about Randy being here.

I'm sure he's not happy with the way he left the Giants. I'm sure I wouldn't be if that were the same situation in my case. But at the same time, it's not Kerry Collins against the Giants. It's Raiders against Giants. One guy can have a vengeance, but you have to go out and play the game as an entire team.

I'm excited about having a coach. I'm even more excited having a former Raiders player as coach. He has been in that locker room, played for that owner and knows what it's like to be in silver and black.

I have no doubt the Raiders will come out and play hard. They have pride in their organization and will give us a tough fight. Whatever role they can figure to play to be a spoiler, I'm sure they'll be anxious to go out with a bang.

I felt we were the Oakland Raiders of high-school football.

I appreciate that without a doubt. Great quarterback. I just look at it as going up against Kerry Collins, who is playing for the Raiders now. Nothing more.

All the Raiders came to the Coliseum carrying their luggage. They were packed and ready to go to New Orleans right after the game.

All the Raiders came to the Coliseum carrying their luggage, ... They were packed and ready to go to New Orleans right after the game.

I've been a Raider all my life.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

If something is said about the Raiders, I'm ready to go to war.

When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.