Kimo Oelhoffen Quotations

My apologies to him. It's unfortunate it happened, but that's the risk we all take playing this game.

I was surprised he waited that long (to talk). But he is a force in our locker room. He's somebody that we turn to. And he did not let us down today.

Last year's line was good. This year's line can be great.

I don't think you can control that. Your job is to tackle the quarterback, hit the quarterback, hit the running back. Big hits. You have to create momentum, create an edge, and that is part of the game, it will always be part of the game. But you never want to see nobody get injured. Ever.

Marvel is the reason why I'm still playing football. Bottom line. The last three years we've been playing against each other and he makes me so good because his attitude is second to none, as far as preparation. There's nobody on the team that works harder than Marvel Smith. There isn't. You go in the weight room every day after practice and he's in there. He's getting better. His mechanics are superb, man. He stays square; his hands are great; his feet are good. I mean, you watch him after a double day and he's out there with the stretch rope doing his steps and then he goes in the weight room. He won't let anyone outwork him or outplay him. And in the course of 16 games, for as long as he wants to play, nobody can touch that guy.

Larry knows how to find the football. He might not make a lot of big plays, but that's not what he's called upon to do. He just doesn't make mistakes. He's always where he needs to be. He's a true linebacker.

I think I've converted a lot of Washingtonians to Pittsburghers. (But) there will be some Seahawks stuff (on the walls). It's not just Steelers.

I think he handles himself the way he should on and off the field. We believe in him, just as he believes in us.

It does (work) if you fall into the trap and start looking for it. Normally, you react to which way they're going and you just run. When you start looking for it, you get injured.

You know what will change that? Win the Super Bowl. That would change everything. All that people remember is, we've lost three AFC Championship Games.

When I first got to Cincinnati, I was not a good football player. I played 12 games in my whole life before I got to Cincinnati. I started 36 games in Cincinnati. Everybody thinks I was there just as a scrub.

We played really bad at times and really good at times, but we need to play better to overcome the circumstances.

We were not worried but more ticked off. We are better than what we did early in the game. But we responded, I thought pretty good.

We've contended four out of five years for the Super Bowl. You get to a point where contending just isn't enough.

We're been doing it for 20 weeks. It doesn't change. Sometimes the outcome of a game is different, but our job doesn't change.

You cannot compare this team with any other. They will run the ball left or right, you don't know where it's coming, and then they've got great players. They do something different than everybody else, and they do it very well.

What they do is legal. As long as they get their heads out in front, it's up to us to defend it. It's part of the game. It has been for a long time.

We had our opportunities. We didn't play smart football on both sides of the ball. (These are) things we can fix, though. We can get a lot better. I know we're fine. Sometimes you get the bear; sometimes the bear gets you.

Stopping the run, that's our No. 1 goal every game. I don't think it's ever not been our No. 1 goal.

That's just football. Believe me, it wasn't because of a lack of effort.

Probably the best man, and not just one of the best coaches , I've ever met in my life. The things I've learned from him about football and about life, I'll cherish forever, really. Every minute you're around him, believe me, is a minute where you've benefited in some way.

If people don't know who we are, it would be good to tell them in the last six years, we've been No. 1 in total defense three times and we've been No. 1 against the rush four times. That has not happened in the NFL before.

I'm feeling pretty good. I'm with my boys, my brothers, so I'm having fun.

I kind of always wanted to play. I saw a lot of the guys that came in with my class and I played basketball and volleyball with them and I could play with them. I gave (football) a shot and fell in love with the game.

Everybody's giving their line crap now. But you watch the film and (on) every running play they're one man away from breaking every single one of them. They're good now but they played bad last week. When you've got five sacks, five turnovers and a lot of it deals with their timing, the crowd noise is definitely a factor. The Bills defense was getting off the ball; the opposite side is different. They just played bad, but they're a good football team. Their defense is good; they ended up strong last year. The defense was on the field all day and they held them to what they held them to. That's excellent.

His acceleration and speed is unmatched in the history of the NFL. You can't compare him to anyone.

His acceleration is unmatched in the NFL, in history. You look at every defensive back in the NFL and compare their acceleration, their closing speed with Troy. There is none.

That kid deserved a shot to play in this game.

They are the best I have seen. Individually, we are going to have to beat our blocks. If we don't, we will get torn up.

We just kept hitting the quarterback. It was as simple as that.

We just played football like we did the last six weeks. Nothing special. That's just how good the Pittsburgh Steelers are.

They're good at it. It's nothing illegal but it's something you have to defend.

He's not a head coach. He's one of us.