Michael Vick Win Quotations

So what? As long as I continue to make plays and win football games, that's all they're going to remember. That's all I care about.

I'm not going to lie. I do (care), ... The only stat that counts is if you win games. I understand that, but still, I don't want my stats to look bad or not be up to par.

We are very critical of ourselves and of how we play and what we do as Atlanta Falcons, ... We know that we have some work to do on both sides of the ball, and that's what we are looking for from our team: improvement. It would be a great situation to be in, 5-2 and 1-0 in the division. It's a great step for us, and obviously as we come back we have to win games and step our own game up a little bit as we get into playing more divisional opponents. We have to really focus in and beat New York this week and worry about what is down the road a little bit later.

I wouldn't say that the game last week was similar to the one in Carolina. That was pretty much a blowout, if you ask me. Last week, we had a better chance to win. We put ourselves in a position where we could win and we didn't come through in those situations.

That's tough. We weren't prepared for that. We didn't play a game all year in the cold weather. Its not an excuse. We still had a chance to win the game. But it was tough.

They played a great game, but in the end we had to step up or fight it out in overtime. We wanted to stay away from overtime and win in good fashion.

They place burdens and expectations on me, ... What people don't understand is that it takes time in this game. They expect me to win a Super Bowl. They expect me to go out and throw for 4,000 yards and rush for 1,000 yards every season. But it doesn't work like that.

I miss dogs, man. I always had a family pet, always had a dog growing up. It was almost equivalent to the prison sentence, having something taken away from me for three years. I want a dog just for the sake of my kids, but also me. I miss my companions.

We understand that it takes 11 guys to win a football game. We do not have any selfish guys on the football team. That is fine with me.

I don't care. It doesn't matter. At the end of my career they're going to judge me on wins and losses, not on how many throws I made from the pocket or what my quarterback rating was.

I don't know. It would help but I feel like we've got all the right pieces here to be successful and to win football games. I don't know where this Terrell Owens talk is coming from but I'm focused on what we've got in place right now.

I think that is our identity, ... We run the football whether it's Warrick, T.J. or me. That's what makes our game go. If that's the way it's going to be, as long as we keep winning and as long as I make my plays when I have to, things are all good.

When one guy goes down, we can't get the job done? That's why we've got backups, ... We're a team. One man can't win a football game by himself. I can't win a game by myself.

If you think about the fumbles, one of them I was throwing the ball and the other time I wasn't looking and the ball got knocked out of my hands when I was in the pocket, ... I try to make an effort that every time I run the ball and every time I'm in the pocket I should protect it, but sometimes there is just nothing you can do about that. You see it all around the league, and it's just something that you have to be conscious of, but at the same time it's hard, to tell you the truth.

We had a great day on third down. Third down is how you win football games in this league. You keep the chains moving, you keep the clock running and you give yourself another opportunity to add some points.

It's a gift from a quarterback's standpoint that all you have to do is throw the ball up for the guys, ... You don't have to worry about throwing to short targets. That's sort of hard to do.

It was minus-10 degrees. That's tough. We weren't prepared for that. We didn't play a game all year in the cold weather. I'm not making any excuses. We still had a chance to win the game. But it was tough.

Some days I'm going to struggle, ... Some days I'm going to miss things I should have seen. But with age and growing in the league, I'm pretty sure I can get to where I want to be. What I have to do is not lose focus and not forget about the things that got me here. If I do that, then I think there's no stopping me.

It's kind of hard to calm yourself down. But, you know, you have got to keep your composure in a game like this and understand the big picture. And that is just winning the football game. It's not about pushing and shoving and getting 15-yard penalties, because that doesn't prove anything.

Guys are four and five yards down the field and I'm throwing bullets. You can't do that.

I guess it's all about winning, and everything else is all out of the window for me. Nothing else matters besides ending on a positive note and having a good feeling about next year.

Making plays when you have to, making big plays in a tough environment, you ask yourself the question, 'How bad do you want to get to 2-1?' ... 'How bad do you want to win this game?'

We just didn't play championship-type football when we needed to. At some points we did, at some points we didn't, whether it's on offense or defense. Playing like that, we wouldn't even win a game in the playoffs. We've just got to re-evaluate a lot of things around here.