Joey Porter Quotations

I was sleeping all week, but I just tasted blood right there. You're craving it when you haven't tasted it in a while. Now I'm thirsty for more.

I don't have to make a name for myself by talking on the microphone. I made a name for myself when I go out there and play football. I feel like what I've done in this league speaks for itself. I started six out of the seven years I've been here. I went to the Pro Bowl three out of the seven. If they don't know who I am now, they are never going to know me anyway.

I have my parade in my head, how I would plan it. But I can't tell you. It's a secret.

I would think somebody would say it, but I wouldn't think he would say it. He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have an opportunity to back up his words and I'm going to have an opportunity to back up my words. It's something I'm looking forward to. I'm ready to get it on.

I would think somebody would say that, but I wouldn't think he would say that. He's too soft to say something like that.

He shocked everybody. He told us he came here because it would be a pleasure to coach us. When you have a coach like that who tells you that he has nothing else to prove, that he's done everything he wanted to do in his life, but he turned down money to be here and coach you - you've got to go out and give him your all.

He's a tight end. I have never, ever, ever been afraid of a tight end.

He does a lot of good things. I've just got to get an edge.

He does a lot of good things. I've just got to try and do what I've been doing all year so I can get a win. I'll be looking at more tape. I want to get some more feelers on him. I thought he was a great player when I played him (in 2003). He definitely has put himself up there as one of the better left tackles in the game.

My older brother taught me that there was no such thing as a shortcut home. If that's the way I gotta go home, I can't let anybody make me take a shortcut. I had to face that bully.

I saw a month ago on TV saying they were going to make everyone with long hair cut it off. And he said he'd never do it. He doesn't care what they say, he'd never do it.

I wish the defense could have played better. It was one of our bad performances in that four-game stretch we had. It doesn't matter. We'll have a greater focus next week.

I still stick to my word: that's not smash-mouth football. We play smash-mouth football.

Three on the road? Nothing we've never done before.

You can forget he's a second-year guy because he's out there so poised. He's not nervous. I've been around a lot of quarterbacks. I've been around quarterbacks who have played eight or nine years and are put in pressure situations and the pressure gets to them.

That was one of the craziest games I've ever been in. I feel good the ball actually bounced our way in the playoffs one time.

We were able to lean on each other through the tough times, and that's what makes me appreciate the position I'm in now. I know where I came from, and I know how hard the journey was for me to get here. So I really try to appreciate everything I get.

We don't believe that we're America's favorite team. Now we are? Now you're going to tell us that after you all wrote us off for dead? Why should we believe you now? I've still got all the articles. So there's no way I can believe you now that you're truly with us.

There is no need for us to stop now. You play that well, like we've been playing to get here, you save the best for last. Now this is the game that really matters. This is the history game. This is what makes you a part of history forever.

We knew what we could do in our hearts, but we still had to go out and play each one of those games. We went and won seven in a row. We did what everybody said we couldn't do. We took the scenic route. We went and visited everybody's city and played on the road. They said, 'No way they could have all these games on the road and continue to win.' You know what? When you play football like we play at that point in time, and just execute like we're doing, we feel like we can beat anybody.

You aren't too good if you're a first-rounder and you barely play four years. And he got on because somebody got hurt.

When we play with a chip on our shoulder and play mad, that's when we play our best football. We play our best football when we're ticked off.

What a perfect way to walk away. I'm sure the broadcast table is waiting for him. He has a perfect smile. He's good in front of the camera. He's great with words. I think he has a face for TV.

This one will always be remembered. It's never been done before what we did. We kept being told we couldn't do this, and that's what we needed.

Now I know how they really feel, and now I can tell you know how I really feel, I don't have to hold any punches any more. If they're looking for a fight, I've been ready for a fight.

That's how you look at it. I didn't take it that way.

There's no way he can hide from me. We have to meet. We have to meet. Over and over and over.

I know they wanted Indy to win the game and everybody in the world loves Peyton Manning, but come on, don't try to take the game away from us. That's just not right.

I mock him a little bit, but I don't think now would be the right time. I'm not the only guy. Everybody has their impression, because everybody's been yelled at by him before. He yells at everybody. It's not hard to see the chin coming out at you and the spit flying everywhere. If you've been yelled at, you know how to do the impression.

I'm not going to give you anything, but to answer these questions one at a time, and I'll take my time doing it. I can tell when you're looking for something, fishing for something.

The bigger story is what I say. The big story isn't how I go out there and play football. The bigger story is what he's going to say next. That's the only reason why I have people waiting for me right now. I'm not going to give you anything special but to answer these questions, one at a time, and I'm going to take my time doing it.

It's tough enough to play against the Colts themselves. When you have to play against the Colts and the refs, it's a much harder game.

The offense kept plugging away and giving us opportunities. Then we let them score another touchdown. At the end of the game, we did what we had to do, but you don't want to let a team like that stick around. You have to put a team like that away early.

That's all wrong. They were picked to go to the Super Bowl a long time ago, and we took the scenic route to get here.

It was good to hear it, I needed that. He spoke out of turn right there.

They are killing me. They're asking me about everything but football.

He's too soft to say something like that.

He's too soft to say something like that. He's going to have the opportunity to back up his words. I'm going to have the opportunity to back up my words. So, it's something I'm looking forward to and I'm ready to get going.

I don't know how you can get a soft 1,800 yards.

I don't know how you can get a soft 1,800 yards, and he has 28 touchdowns. I'll take that every day. He's the MVP.

A guy that says something that lines up in front of me every play, you've got to be like that. We have to meet. We have to meet over and over and over.

That's the goal. Anything else we do doesn't matter if we don't make the playoffs.

You don't want to come to the Super Bowl and think about losing. I can't be mad about that. Definitely, the mental thought that you have to take to the Super Bowl is that you can't be thinking about anything else but winning, so I don't fault them for that.

We shut Rudi down plenty of times. We shut him down more times than he had success against us. He only had 100 yards against us one time.

We're going to try to send as many people as we can to the sidelines. If we can 'tap out' somebody that's what we're going to do.

We're going to try to tap out as many people as we can, I'm going to put it like that. We're going to try to send as many people to the sideline as we can.

I do what I have do to get myself going and he likes to see me going. He knows once I get going, he knows what kind of player he's going to get. That's going to make me play at a high level.

If he had said something about my kicker, I'm going to fire back. It doesn't matter who you are talking back. I'm not the kind of person who is going to sit there and let you talk about my teammates.