Jim Irsay Quotes

There are a lot of people who might not get another chance to win a Super Bowl, not just me.

I'm thrilled, I'm grateful, I'm blessed. I played for the world's greatest professional sports team in history. Once a Dallas Cowboy, always a Dallas Cowboy.

It's one thing to play football in this league and make a living, but it's a totally different thing to come to a place with a rich tradition like the Bears.

In the end, the Super Bowl is just a football game. You try to take a couple of big, deep breaths and convince yourself it's just another game. You try to, anyway.

I've always joked about Joe Montana not appreciating his Super Bowls nearly as much as I do because he never lost one. We lost three before we got one.

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.

Most of my recognition comes from us winning that championship. The words may not come out - 'Super Bowl III' - because a lot of the folks at the grocery store, gas station or mall weren't even born when we won the Super Bowl. But they're aware of it. It has had a tremendous impact on my life since then.

It's an awesome responsibility, not only to maintain the level of success the NFL has, but to build on that.

I was truly honored to be a part of that game, to be playing the 50th Super Bowl.

I'm retiring as a football player from the University of Tennessee who played for the Colts and the Broncos and was very lucky to have played for all of them.

If you don't win a Super Bowl, you're not considered successful in the National Football League. I can remember, when we finally won that first one, feeling so good for the players and fans.

Many quarterbacks have won throughout their career and had a lot of success... and have a lot of wins, but were not able to win that Super Bowl... But that is the ultimate goal.

Winning the Super Bowl would be way more special than the rookie rushing record.

I was blessed to play a small role in the Steelers tradition.

It's an honor to play on the same team as some of the best players in the history of the game.

I just want to exhaust every opportunity to play and obviously try to play in a game like this - the Super Bowl.

I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don't see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.

There are a lot of great players that never got a chance to play for a national championship. And I got a chance to play for two.

I'm happy for my kids getting postseason opportunities, for both of them playing in the Super Bowl back to back. I never would have envisioned anything like that.

That was a terrible Super Bowl, I have to say. I mean you got the big Peyton Manning walk off into the sunset win, but what a shnoozo.

I want to finish my career as a Dolphin and win a championship here. That's what they brought me here for and that's what I came to do.

As I always say, one of the best things of football is that the game is testing you all the time.

We love football because the game of football is better than it has ever been, and is somehow managing to attain, at the same time, an apogee of opprobrium and excellence.

I've played with some of the best players in the world, and I've loved every minute of it.

All the great players are welcome in Paris.