Terrell Suggs Quotes

When I'm lined up in the middle, it's a lot of freelancing and blitzing.

That's my thing. Pass rusher, yeah, you can call me a pass rusher.

I think you have to go deep into the bag of tricks, so to speak, to try and slow down the quarterback.

I love getting after that quarterback! That's my deal: sacking the quarterback.

Any team, if you can rattle the quarterback you have an opportunity to win the game.

That's the key to defending any quarterback: to make them throw before they want to throw.

Having a good defensive line allows you to play better because it's less stressful in terms of defending.

A defensive coordinator is always going to try to throw you something different and get you out of your element, and I have to do better with the pass protection.

I think anytime you can take as much off the quarterback as possible, that only helps them out in the long run.

No one coaches what to do after three seconds, after the quarterback's broken the pocket or he's been in the pocket for five, six seconds.

The name of the game is 'kill the quarterback.' Every football team tries to knock the guy out of the game that's handling the ball.

A little more movement of the defensive side of the ball, some rules that will be unnoticed, but a big rule will be allowing the jack linebacker to move out of the box sideline to sideline.

I know how important it is to have your quarterback standing upright. Matter of fact, I know how important it is not to allow someone hit on him period because I want him to think that this pocket is completely safe, no one is going to get to me and I got all the time in the world to make whatever decisions I need to make.

Charles Haley changed the way the Cowboys played football in the 90s. And the reason why I say that is because he was such a dominant force coming off the edge, where it took two and three to block him.

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

When we had a great defense at Tampa Bay, we always measured our defenses against the best quarterbacks.

We always think we can get to the quarterback, put pressure on him.

As a pass-rusher, 100 sacks is a big milestone. My 100th sack was on Joe Webb.

My goal is I want to create the 20-20-20 club: 20 sacks, 20 tackles for loss, 20 batted balls.

When you can recognize hot throws and blitzes, that's when they can slow down their blitz and they don't want to blitz you as much because you're getting the ball out.

I want to get to the quarterback and stop the run.

It's very tough to run my side of the line. Eight out of 10 plays, they don't get anything.

Obviously, teams are passing a lot more, and there are rules that... allow the offense to be more explosive, so you want to have as many defensive players and defensive playmakers and defensive backs that you can.

That's the only way you can stop a guy like Cam Newton. Hit him. He's unstoppable, so whenever he does try to run like a running back, you got to punish him.

It's definitely tough on the pass rushers when they say you're taking a quarterback down and you fall on top of them and it's roughing the passer. Ain't really much you can say, it's just tough.