Brentson Buckner Quotations

We're in, so we've got a chance to do it. That's the only thing that matters to us. If they have shuttles going to the moon and we have to go up there and play on the moon, we'll go do it.

When you can put together a performance like this, you've got to feel good about it.

One thing you better learn about Steve: The madder you make him, the better he's going to play. He's like the little Hulk.

I don't know what the other 113 people are like. But I know I've got deep spot in my heart for sports and a love for it. I can't speak for anybody else. I have plenty of time (to follow college football). I know what my perspectives are. I love sports. I spend all day Saturday watching college football anyway, so I'll put it to good use.

I don't care what people think of us. The only thing that matters is what the guys in this room believe. The guys that have that black cat on their heads, the coaches, the owner . . . we don't worry about what people say. All that's going to handle itself on the field.

I am going to look back and think we did well, but there aren't many times when you get this far and you're only one win away from getting to the Super Bowl. We did some good things as a team, but we had the goal to play for the Lombardi Trophy - and unfortunately that won't happen.

But come Sunday, I get paid extremely well to go out there and play football, and that's what I plan to do. If anything, it tells you in life one minute you can have everything and the next it's gone. I'm going to go out and enjoy every game I get to play.

I can't say it got to us. If I say it got to us, that's taking something away from Seattle. They were the best team today. We play on the road eight games a year (during the regular season), so that didn't bother us.

Go ahead and doubt us. We eat that stuff up like it's dinner.

If it's having Brady throw the ball 40-50 times, that's what they're going to do. You just have to practice for everything and play. We can't look at it like, 'Jenks isn't here now so we have to worry about that side.' We have to just play and let the pieces fall where they may.

He has a way of keeping the chains moving. He has good quickness. He's a complete quarterback.

He loves it, waking up at 4 in the morning, doing what he has to do, that's his life. You can take the boy off the farm, you just can't take the farm out of the boy.

When he's healthy, there's no one better at doing what he does. ... He's in great shape, and he's been dominating. So for us as a front four and as a defense, we know now that's a major problem for other teams.

We've got to stop him. We can't let him beat us.

He's better than Warren Sapp and he's the most integral part of our defensive line. Usually you have guys who are categorized as run stoppers or pass rushers. He's big enough to be one of the most dominant run stoppers, but he's also athletic enough to rush the passer. So that makes him very unique.

We match up with anybody. If they tell us to come out and play on the moon, we'll play on the moon. Everything we want to do is still ahead of us. We didn't win the division, but we're in. We took care of business.

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.

He keeps his balance. I can't count how many times you think, 'He's down, they got him' and he's coming out the back end, going down the field with speed. You need 11 guys coming to the ball making sure he's down. Keep pounding and pounding him and make sure he's on the ground.

He knows what to do and he goes out and plays hard, and you can't teach a person to play hard. You can teach them technique, help them get stronger, help them get faster. But playing hard, that comes from inside.

Our fans made this a nice little home game.

Names are irrelevant. All we want to be is the Carolina defensive line.

I'm smart enough to know that he has an arm to make throws that Kyle Orton couldn't make and the (Bears) coaches feel more comfortable with him back there so they're going to open up the offense a little bit more. With Rex being healthy that offense is more open. They're taking more chances going down the field.

The 2006 team might be the best Panther team of all time.

That's the key for most defenses. Your job as a defensive tackle is to make sure those guys are untouched. Dan Morgan is like my quarterback. If he's untouched and making plays, then I'm doing a great job. If you're disruptive inside, you can let a guy like Dan Morgan fly to the ball, you're going to have some success.

That's the hog farmer, man, the hog farmer's gonna show up and play. For him to show the way he did - that's a blessing. I'm proud to say I'm his teammate.

You don't ever want to limp in. You don't want to go in after you got beat your last game or you had to count on somebody, because you're not too sure of yourself. When you go in after you put up a good victory and you executed well and you played a rival away game, you go in with confidence. You go in with your head high, and you're ready to take on the world.

When you're going against arguably the best defensive lineman in the game, you're going to lose some sleep at night, especially when you're feeling that he's in a zone. It's human nature. If you see me ball up my fist to hit you, you're going to move out the way, right? Just imagine that. When you start taking those punches, sooner or later you're going to jerk back.

Usually, the best defense wins. Today, the luckiest defense won. Their defense played better than ours.

We played our worst game and we got exploited for it. To get here and play the way we did is disappointing.

Yeah, sometimes you start questioning yourself. But we saved ourselves today.

The one thing you can say about the Patriots is that they're going to do what they feel they need to do to win the game,

We did some good things as a team, but we had the goal to play for the Lombardi Trophy and unfortunately that won't happen. This is not how you want to end your year. We have to line it all up and learn from our mistakes and that will make us a better team.

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer. We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

Yeah, everybody from Iowa's a pig farmer, ... We just laugh about it. Because if you look at him and look at his dad, they're probably two of the cleanest pig farmers I've ever seen in my life.

We'll show up and play anywhere. We'd play on the moon if they ever get a shuttle going.

When people talk about how you don't belong here, you shouldn't be here - you're a man, your manhood has been challenged. He plays that way, and I love him because he does that.

With a performance like that, 2006 might be a magical year.

With any offense, if you make it one-dimensional, then you know what they're doing. The challenge for us was don't let Corey Dillon get started. Because when he gets started, now you've got to bring safeties in the box to stop him. And Tom Brady's play-action is dangerous. We just decided to go hard. And when you couldn't go hard, let the next guy come in so he can go hard. We just rotated players constantly.

When you get slapped in the face by a bully for so long, it makes it even sweeter to come into their place and win like this.

When you get a chance to play someone in your division, you want to play them, but it didn't work out that way. We've got the Giants, and we've got to handle our business. You want to get invited to the dance. You don't care who you dance with. You just want to make sure you get the invitation. We got the invitation. We've got to dance with the Giants, and that's what we're going to do.

When we play our best, we can play with anybody. I think we're capable of going all the way, but we've got to take it one game at a time. We've got to line up and play whoever they put in front of us and play the way we played today and it will all take care of itself. We're not just in there just to be saying we're there.

When we play our best, we can play with anybody.

We had some success this year, but this is not the way you want to finish your year.

We don't want national cameras. We just want to play football. Let the people write what they write, let them report what they want to report.

We challenged ourselves this week to know the Giants better than they knew themselves.

Early on, it's natural that you take it for granted (you'll win a Super Bowl). You're like, 'Oh, this is my first year, my second year, my third, fourth.' Then you start getting around eight and nine and you start looking at rosters and there are not too many people that have nine or 10 after their name in (years of) experience.

Early (in your career), it's natural you take it for granted. Oh, this is my first year, my second year, third, fourth. Then you start getting around eight and nine and you start looking at other rosters and there are not too many people that have nine and 10s after their name in experience.

I've seen a lot of football. I haven't seen a defense since I've been in the NFL that's more impressive than that defense.

The storybook ending. You want to go out in the playoffs, hopefully in the bowl holding up that trophy at the end.

Ronnie Brown didn't do nothing -- don't even come over here with anything about Ronnie Brown. Ronnie Brown had 37 yards until he hit that one long run. And he hit that one long run because we missed an assignment. So don't ask me what Ronnie Brown was doing to get those yards. Go look at the stats. Ronnie Brown had 37 yards until he got that one long run, so he didn't do nothing. It's all about what we didn't do right.

Really? Cool. Go Tigers. Clemson has a winning tradition and the players learn that while they're there. I guess it carries over to the NFL.

As a group, they're one of the best offensive lines we've faced all year.

You put pressure on yourself when you fail to prepare or you haven't put your all in it. That's when you've got pressure because you're looking around and trying to find ways to do things. If you prepare well and know them better than they know themselves, then there's no pressure.

They've been there. They know what the hoopla is all about. They know how to go through the week and prepare. Now, the coaches don't have to worry about impressing what you need to know. Now, without even talking about it, you see guys spending more time on film or lifting more or communicating more.

They don't have to do it by themselves. There's the other 10 guys that rally around them.

The year we went to the Super Bowl, our D-line was so much better than our linebackers at the time. Our linebackers were so much better than our secondary. It's like, the farther you went back, it sort of like dropped off. But now it's strong all the way through.

This left a bitter taste in my mouth. Losing a championship game is the worst feeling in the world.

This is the identity we want. We want to run the ball, stop the run, play aggressive defense and just play our football. It was a good game to try to establish that.

It's just like eating some ice cream. As long as you've got a big bowl of ice cream it's good. When you get to the end, that's when it starts tasting better because you know it might be your last spoonful.

It was smash-mouth football. We knew that coming in. This is the Chicago Bears and that's their tradition. We can play that kind of football.

It's also good for the guys like me because now somebody has a little extra money and they can go after a veteran who might have gotten squeezed out in this. I'm sure the veteran minimum is going to go up, so guys like me can go out and get a one-year somewhere and feel good about the situation they are going into.

It looks like the game really has slowed down for him. The athletic ability has always been there but now his techniques are starting to show up in his play. He looks so natural because he's such a great athlete but he's really understanding what people are trying to do to him and how he needs to react to it.

It's hard to take punches. Our offense did a good job building a lead. It's just human nature to blink when things like that happen.

You tell me one receiver out there right now that's doing the things he's doing. There's some guys who are having good games, but I'm talking about somebody who can give you across the middle, the short yardage, and beat you deep at any time? And line up at punt return and be liable to break it? You name me one that's doing it.

It's like growing up. You get slapped in the face by a bully for so long, that when you finally get your chance to be on top you want to spank him.

The best team is going to win. This is not baseball. Nobody has got a hundred mile per hour fastball can't nobody hit.

Taylor is that kind of player. He can give them a very nice little package in that offense, something that's going to be very tough to stop.

Take your biggest college bowl game. That's just the wild-card game. The next week, you multiply that. It gets big because the whole world's watching you.

It's America; he's allowed to be or express his opinion anyway he wants to. You don't deserve respect, you have to go out and earn it. And until we do something to earn it then so be it.

It's human nature. The team that's got something to play for will always play harder than the team that doesn't have anything to play for. It's just a matter of going out there and taking it.

It was horrible. They gained almost 700 yards on us that day, if I remember correctly.

After the success they have had against us in recent years, we wanted to make a statement today and get our swagger back.

Anytime you've got a player that can just come out and dictate the game like that, you've got an edge. That first touchdown took the air out of the crowd.

I like the pureness of college football. You never know what you're going to see. You have the option one week and the run and shoot the next.

I know how bad it hurt him not to be out there last year. Hopefully he'll handle it a little bit better this time. We're going to make sure that he knows we're here for him, and that he can still come around even though he's hurt. Don't be scared to pick up the phone and call one of us if he has a problem - because he's still part of this family. We don't want him to ever feel that just because he's not here every day, we forgot about him.

Being a defensive lineman, Reggie is one of the guys I always watched. And he was an inspiration off the field, too. We lost a great football player today, and we lost a great citizen.

He started off mad. Since Day 1, when he walked into the Panther facility he was mad. But that's Steve. That's the competitor in him. He wanted to be the best.

I don't know how we're going to do it because he's crazy, a double threat. You can say all you want about taking away the throwing option, but then he takes off and is running like Eric Dickerson. All you can do is go out there and line up, stay technically sound and hope for the best.

He's the one consistent thing back there through all the coaches. From '97 on up, he's been the one constant thing that's been back there. When you got a piece like that, you don't replace that. You replace the stuff around him until you find the right combination, and that's what they've done.

He came in and gave us stability on one side of the field, where we can say we've got a shutdown corner. We've got a physical guy that can play the pass and play the run.

You can't take nothing away from them. They came out and played hard. Rex found a little groove, and they moved the ball some. But when we needed a stop, we usually got it. And when we got the ball back for the offense, they usually did something with it.

You've got to play sound defense. This is one of those running backs where the play might start to the right, but it might end up on the left. He's almost Michael Vick when he has the ball in his hands.

You've got to know that whatever you did that first game you've got to do a whole lot better, cause they're watching that same film and they're going to come with a different level of intensity and you've got to be able to match it.

You've got to have 11 guys coming to him. You have to keep pounding him.

The four best teams in the NFL are playing. They earned it.

The funny thing about it is it's been in our hands several times this year and we seemed to drop it. Our backs are against the wall right now and there are no more drops.