26 Quotes by Matt Birk

Like him or not, say what you want about him, but the guy makes plays. He said he was going to make up for last week, and go out and make some plays. He showed up today.

Right now I'm just focused on getting healthy and feeling good. It's a bummer. Going through what I went through last year, I burned the candle at both ends. It caught up to me.

I would have been ecstatic to play this year. And I'm disappointed that I'm not. But also, at those moments when I separate the emotion from it all, I think this is probably the right thing to do, not only for myself and my career, but also for the Vikings.

I feel great; this right hip will not keep me out of the regular-season opener.

He's as good as there is. Just from the little bit I know about him from some Pro Bowls and around the league, he's a quality guy, too. When people were asking me about the deal he signed, I said if anybody's worth that kind of money, he is. In my opinion, he's that good.

Hopefully, this incident wakes some guys up and scares them straight.

I almost felt like a rookie again, but that's OK. I'll take it.

Playing with pain is part of the game. But I felt that I had risked my career by playing injured last year, and probably shortened it. And I wasn't willing to do it again unless the team was going to assume some of the risk.

Playing with pain is part of the game,