89 Quotes by Tim Ruskell

(The Panthers) weren't ready for some of that stuff, which threw them off. And that's how you win big games. Mike's called it great all year long; he's quite a game manager, and he's been a joy to watch this season.

We've just signed one of the best running backs in the history of the National Football League, basically in essence, to a lifetime deal.

We'd already had undersized inside players. For any other team, it would have been. For us, it was, 'OK, another 6-footer.'

You can just look at the card and almost define the player without reading the report. It cuts through the jargon a little quicker.

Tony would run our coaches out of there to get back to their families when it was getting too late in the night.

We just made a run for the Super Bowl, so everybody's feeling good about themselves. Obviously our players become more attractive to other teams. So they get some ideas in their head. We'd love to have them all back, but that's hard to do. We're in a good spot in terms of where our talks are with all of our players.

You factor in his durability quotient and it makes the decision pretty easy.

We are still working free agency. I think last year our most productive period was about from now even on past the draft. It's still ongoing. There won't be as many big-name people come down, but there's a lot of good need-type, value-type people still out there.

We had some divisiveness in the locker room, so we had to shake up what was in the shoebox. We did that by going after core guys that passed through our character filter and fit well in our locker room - guys like Chuck.