Jonathan Vilma Quotations

Whether we like it or not, we are high-profile athletes. We're role models. Kids come up to me all the time to talk and it makes me remember when I was a kid and I got to meet Jerry Rice and how much that meant to me. And how we've got to set a good example.

I still think we're a playoff team. It's just a matter of working on some things and getting better.

I liked the preview. It interested me that it was based on a true story.

Ed Reed gave me some good advice when I was still in school. He said, 'Stay all your years at school. Enjoy it. Get the experience out of it, in football and everything else.' That's what I did. And that got me ready for this.

The perception for us is we're going to be great. We have guys people may be worried about, but we're not worried about them. You're talking about two guys that are playmakers.

In this business, nobody is going to feel sorry for you. You have to create your own luck.

We didn't do what we planned to do. The bottom line was to stop the run. We didn't do it and I don't know why.

It's an honor for me to be selected to play in the Pro Bowl. It was one of my goals when I set my sights on playing in the National Football League and I am excited to play with all the great players that have also been selected.

We knew what they were going to do, we didn't get the job done. I don't know why we didn't make the tackles we should have made. It cost us a couple of touchdowns, and that was the game. That was our game plan coming in, stop the run. We didn't do that. It's humbling.

What can Ray Lewis do that you can't do?