69 Quotes by Willie Anderson

A lot of it was our fans saying it. My thing to our fans is: Don't get scared now, because we need our fans.

It was funny. I knelt down next to all three guys and said a prayer and they all jumped up.

It was a very disappointing end to a great opportunity however you have to look forward not back and what you take from the past is the experience you have learned at that level,

It's about the same right now. It's just sore. I'm walking around like I'm 100 years old, but that's the life of the NFL lineman. It should relax by the end of the week, hopefully.

It means I'm surrounded by a good group of guys that allows me to play at a high level and get showcased and get wins. Anytime you get an individual honor, to me, it always comes back to the guys around you. The guys I'm playing with on the offensive line - Bobbie Williams, Richie Braham, Levi (Jones) and (Eric) Steinbach - those guys allow me to go out and get my talent showcased because they're playing so well as a unit. Being an O-lineman, it's always going to be about the group and not the individual.

It should let go a lot by the end of the week. Everything's stemming from my knee right now. It's not been totally 100 percent.

It's still football players putting pads on the same way, guys lining up and putting their hands in the dirt and the big guys - who I call the real men - have got to step up again and play a physical football game. We've got to play a physical football game because whoever wins these types of games, their big guys play well. Point blank.

Everybody was going with some type of injury. That's the type of character this team has now.

It's a new feeling for us. I always thought it would be freezing and zero degrees right now. That's how I always pictured the week of a playoff game in Cincinnati.