217 Quotes by Shaun Alexander

Oh yeah. I took all the tests and realized the guy knocked some sense into me. I am actually smarter than I was before.

Our defense did good enough for us to win, and we didn't help them out at all. Jacksonville did what they wanted to do against us, which is throw us around. They totally controlled the whole game.

Some of it seems like it is going to go fast, then some of it is going to go slow by next Thursday before the game. We are going to enjoy where we are, but we know that our only goal is for (Super Bowl) Sunday.

The more film I watch, the more I understand that we have to do some great things to run the ball. They stop a lot of plays. And not only that, they push running backs out of holes that they are supposed to be running into, and a lot of times they don't get credit for that. They are amazing players.

A little wake-up call for all of us.

Mike says when you get to Detroit everything goes by so fast that you really don't even feel like it's real preparation.

This is the best family atmosphere we've had in six years here. That's what family members do, when somebody's not there, they say, 'We're going to carry you for a while.' And that's how the whole game went.

Mike said we will always be the other team. Even though they are a sixth seed, they're the pick over us. We win 11 in a row, and they say it's our fault the other teams weren't as good. We can't worry about it. We just got to go out and play.

Mike said from the very beginning, that we are always going to be the 'other' team.