144 Quotes by Brian Dawkins

Those are things you don't understand and can't sweep under the rug,

You have peaks and valleys. At the end, after you've handled everything you need to handle in those valleys, you come back up in those peaks. We're at one of the peaks right now.

When you replace a Jeremiah a year ago and try to replace Hugh this year, we would never ask those guys to be those players. We just ask them to bring what they bring to the table, and hopefully it'll add to what we already have. But I would never say anybody could replace what we lost in Hugh. No one person could ever do that for us. Because what he brought wasn't just on the field, but in the locker room also.

Those were the plays that used to go our way in the past. But for whatever reason, this year everything continued to bounce away from us.

You love to have that on your team.

We definitely expect when he gets in a game for him to make a play. We expect those things from him now.

We definitely miss him. He's a guy we depend on for pass rush and stopping the run. He's a big, huge, strong dude in the middle.

We used that until they wrecked one of theirs.

There is a business side of the game. You may write about it, we may read about or see it on TV, but it does not affect what is going to happen between those lines.