Lemar Marshall Quotations

I want to be out there as soon as I can, but I've shown that I can play both positions. I have a contract. I don't feel the pressure that I might have felt in the past. You want to be out there when you see other guys getting better, but you've got to follow the right procedures so you don't have any setbacks.

We're trying to make a different statement as far as our record in the NFC East. The last couple of years since I've been here it's not been very good, so right now we're trying to win a lot more games in the NFC. And we just have to find a way to keep it going and win on the road.

I was the first one to the ball, then he made that cut at the last minute, and after that, we couldn't get him down. He found holes.

Hey, that's OK. The first rule of the game is that you can't score if you don't have the ball. And our defense saw to it that they didn't have the ball all that much today.

It was so funny. That's just Marcus. He's just having fun when he's on the field.

When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to make a name for yourself and get the trust from your teammates. And he came up just hitting people last year on special teams, and then finally when he started playing on defense he was really coming downhill and just hitting big guys like Jamal Lewis last year. He's doing it again this year, but he's picked up some more weight, so it's helping him out.

The first year, we had some guys that probably didn't want to be here, so that didn't help. This year, Coach Gibbs was just determined. That was the key word, he was determined to make that change, to get this team back to where it needs to get to. He was determined not to be in that situation again.

It wasn't the same without him in there. Cornelius is a crafty veteran. He's going to get out there and do things because he knows the tricks of the trade. After playing with him for two years, you get a feel for what he's going to do, and when someone else is in there, maybe they're not as quick or not as strong, and you react different, and it affects the whole defense.

I think it's better to start off on a lower note and finish higher than the other way around.

We wanted to come out and start fast. I believe we did that.