Sid Gillman Quotes

To be able to be mentioned with guys like Emmitt, Walter Payton, Barry Sanders, Curtis Martin and my man LaDainian Tomlinson, it's a blessing.

For a guy not to want to listen to a Jerry Rice, a Tim Brown, a Charlie Garner, doesn't make a whole lot of sense.

I think Ray Guy and John Madden for sure should be in the Hall of Fame and Cliff Branch should be as well.

I'm probably the only guy in the country who can say he's worked under Chuck Noll and Don Shula.

I had some good OGs, from Charles Woodson to Justin Tuck to Antonio Smith.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I always idolized guys like Deion Sanders, Barry Sanders, Steve Young and the entire 49ers team, really. I was a huge 49ers fan growing up.

We have about 4 million people who have voted for who they want to see in the Hall of Fame. There are some people they put down that are pretty good players. You have Ray Guy, Jim Plunkett, Lester Hayes and Donnie Shell.

In his time both on the field and on the sideline, Jack Pardee will forever be a part of the Washington Redskins' legacy.

Even though you wouldn't want to line a D-lineman and running back up across from each other to block, when you get help initially from the guard, and then the defensive tackle gets picked up by the running back, it's not as bad as a lot of people would think versus if you're just putting that matchup on paper.

To survive in the NFC West, we have to win in the trenches.

You can't put a running back in there and have him not know who to pick up. You can't get your quarterback hit.

Johnny U was an American original, a piece of work like none other, excepting maybe Paul Bunyan and Horatio Alger.

Drew Brees is going to be in the Hall of Fame.

The job of the offense is not to score points. The job of the defense is not to stop the other team from scoring points.

I look up to many great players - principally attackers. The two Ronaldos, Romario and Rivaldo all play well.

LaDainian Tomlinson, Hines Ward, Marion Barber, and a host of other black stars help the NFL shine brightly week after week.

My football idol growing up, I was named after Walter Payton, but my idols at RB were Barry Sanders and Emmitt Smith.

There are a lot of great players who have not won a Super Bowl.

Obviously, Kobe is one of the greatest players to ever play the game.

When I played for Stuttgart, I met Manchester United and Chelsea. With United, I immediately think of the duels with Ryan Giggs and Paul Scholes and with Chelsea, it was John Terry. Those players are symbols of their clubs and the success they had at that time.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

I think of guys like Troy Polamalu. These are guys who didn't see much action in the regular season, but when it came postseason time, they made their plays. That's ultimately how they got their names. Ed Reed. Troy Polamalu. Ty Law. Asante Samuel.

I loved Tom Landry and Roger Staubach.

I think about the great players with whom I have shared a pitch: Eric Cantona, Zinedine Zidane, Pirlo, Xavi, Cristiano Ronaldo - and the greatest of them all is Messi.