Mike Shanahan Great Quotations

Our guys aren't as big as some. But they do have great speed. We really thrive on speed with our defense. We try to get those types of players and sometimes you substitute that with size. Our linebackers do have good speed.

The All-Star Classic is a great event to showcase our league and we are excited that we can bring it to the St. Louis region. We are so fortunate that we have one of the nation's best pediatric hospitals in our community, so anytime there is an opportunity, we want to support their efforts.

We really feel like Mike is in great shape. He's had a great camp. There are no questions in our minds that he's totally healthy.

When you are 0-6 and you havent won a game out there, it is a great challenge for our football team, ... It is not with the same team, but it never is.

When you do that, it makes it hard for your defense to play four quarters at the level that we expect them to play. We did not do a very good job on offense. I can not put my thumb on it, because there was some great effort, guys played hard, but you have to have eleven guys out there playing together. One guy here (and) one guy there just doesn't get it done.

They're very physical on offence. If you look at the great teams and especially in the playoffs, you've got to be able to stop the run.

Tatum made a great move to the inside and the rest is history,

Everybody wants difference makers and everybody wants great players.

Everybody wants difference makers and everybody wants great players. Sometimes, you get a great player that's not a team player and then you have a great player on your team and he might not help you win games.

Anytime you have your base personnel on the field against a dime defense, you have a chance on a play like that. If we would have made it, it would have been a great call.

It takes a great athlete and a very mature athlete to play as a rookie in the NFL.

I know how great Jerry Rice was in his prime, ... I saw it firsthand.

He's unbelievable. They do a great job with their scheme-making, making it very difficult to figure out where he is, but the rest is him making plays. There are not many plays where he is not involved, and you can't say that about many people in the National Football League.