27 Quotes by Dick LeBeau

Make no mistake, they've got a great quarterback. It's not easy to hold him under 20. Our guys did that and it gives you a great chance to win. It was the execution of our players. They did a great job with their timing.

Nobody remembers who loses the Super Bowl. Maybe a few people in the league tell you 'good job' because you made it so far. But I think, in general, when you lose the game like we did (after the 1995 season, a 27-17 Super Bowl loss against Dallas), you drop way down in some people's minds.

He had a couple (of) injuries early in his career that kept him from growing at a normal pace. But soon as he stayed healthy, which he has, he just really became a fine defensive lineman.

He looked like he was 100 percent to me. They said he's 90 percent. If he's got more than that, he's pretty good.

There is a finite number of blitzes you can come up with. But it?s sort of like music. There?s a finite number of tunes, but we probably haven?t come close to exhausting them all yet.

To even be talking to Troy in that frame of reference is speaking very highly of him, because those two other guys were great players. I began to see a lot of the things that they did that Troy could do, and I think Troy has a ways to go.

He runs real, real fast. And he's very instinctive. He just can diagnose and get to the right spot.

He's a lot faster runner than you would think for a man of his dimensions. But his real strength of course is anchoring and inverting the line of scrimmage and letting us play around him.

Our guys did a great job with their disguising and their timing.