50 Quotes by Willie Parker

I can live with the awareness that someone might harm me. I am not so sure that I am brave enough to live with the awareness that I was too afraid to do what I knew to be right.

When I came here, I wasn't even expecting to play. He (Bettis) was a type of guy who took me under his arm and saw something in me and he just helped me out along the way.

More interviews, ... I'm just happy for this team that we got a win. The accolades will always be there. It's not really about who gets offensive awards, defensive awards, it's about the team and the win.

I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye. It was one of those situations where the coaches are going to be always right and the player is never right. They decided not to play me, and I had to live with it.

I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame, also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye.

I can't explain what I was going through at that time. I knew I was doing some good things on the field, and I was feeling really confident, but I also knew that one phone call could destroy all of it. Like I said, I had confidence, but there's also this feeling you have. It's a crazy feeling, one that isn't very fun.

I don't think anybody at UNC thought I could make it up here. That's what motivates me every day when I wake up, knowing that there are people out there saying I can't do something. That's like fuel on your fire.

If that came down, if that was the issue, I'm all for it. I'm all right and ready to go. Everybody gets sick now and then.

I always look at myself as a role player anyways, so I wasn't looking at myself as the starter, ... Even though I was starting I looked at it as though I was filling in. When those guys got back I was ready for whatever.