Simeon Rice Quotations

We've won the tight games and before we didn't. Before we were receiving the brunt of the bad things that would happen. You see what happens at the end of the games now. At the tight part of the game we're stepping up and playing through it.

There are opportunity and circumstances that fall our way and we have to take advantage of them. Any good team is able to do that. You've got to step up.

Right now he's one of our best defensive players. ... He's like our 12th man.

I am the best of the best. I'm that rare individual, that rare athlete, who is able to negate offenses.

Business is business and business has to be run as a business. It has to be on paper. Business can't be hocus-pocus, or wishful thinking. You have to understand your market.

From week to week, game to game, it doesn't matter if a team is 3-12 or 12-3 or undefeated. They're going to always play you hard. When our games come around, it's a playoff atmosphere.

For us, we are very optimistic. We understand where we are. We competed against several of these teams already that are in the mix and we have gained confidence because we have won.

He did what he needed to do. I'm not mad at him. It's a situation. It's life. You move on. ... I learned my lesson. There's no hard feelings.

He's a big, strong guy. He can throw the ball the length of the field and take big hits. He's what you want at quarterback. He's the next level.

He's a gamer. If we had a player like him, we'd have been in the Super Bowl this year.

Hopefully they bring the noise. Hopefully they're a little on edge, a little crazed. We need a crazed crowd. We're begging for a crazed crowd. I'm begging for a crazed crowd. Hopefully it's sold out and you can't even hear yourself think. Forget about talk, I'm talking about just thinking.

Hopefully, they bring the noise. Hopefully, they're a little on edge, a little crazed. We're begging for a crazed crowd. Hopefully, you can't even hear yourself think. When the other team feels that, they feel like they're going to lose right out of the gate.

Last year is last year. That's a done deal. That's why I don't even talk about last year that much. That was a joyous memory. Now we're living in the moment, and the moment right now is we're 4-5 and we're still digging and we're still struggling. What matters is the realness of the moment. That's what we're not overcoming right now. We're being overcome by it.

That's the type of thing we can do on defence. We want to do something special.

That (Super Bowl) team was a really tight-knit team. We had characters. We had Hollywood. We had bravado, we had it all. That was our time then. This is our time now. Our time now is what it is. Winning brings about a better situation. It's just as tight. But it's still all about winning.

We needed this, it's a rite of passage game, ... When you get through a game like this, it shows you what you're about and shows you where you're trying to go. ... At certain points, this is a journey. And it was a hell of a journey today.

We're just going to ride this ship, ride this wave. We accomplished one mission, we'll be setting out for many more.

We basically lost it two or three times and basically won it two or three times. It was definitely a wild ride.

We've got to be there. We're all Americans.

Both philosophies came to a head, and clashed today. Better offense? Better defense? Can old players play? Everything. All those different things played out today. But the truest story that's known to man today is that we're truly No. 1.

We've got a lot better players. We've got a lot of players who are doing big things. ... From Cadillac to myself to Chris stepping in there.

This year? Clean slate. Of course, my past is checkered. But we're dealing with the now.

We're going to be able to recover, be able to rest, allow our hunger to build, allow things to really revert back within ourselves. It's going to allow us to take it easy for a week. Then, when you get back to the game, you're refreshed. I think we'll be ready, be really pumped, and then be off to San Francisco and do our thing.

We wanted a situation where we were going to play them again in Philly, and we got that. All we have to do is bring our dancing shoes, put our best foot forward and let the chips fall where they may.

Everything we've done this year has been under the radar. But we're an accomplished team, and now we want to finish strong and carry whatever momentum we have into the playoffs. To do that we need to put together a dominant performance this week.

At the beginning it was chaotic. It's been a rough ride.

There's no hard feelings. We've got something great going on. We've got a real good head coach, who sets a great tone . . . got players who have one common goal. In the end, we're trying to get to Detroit. Don't let anybody fool you. That's why we're in this game.

People really don't understand how good we are. But that's OK. Defense is not a glamorous spot.

A distant memory. Many moons ago. Now, we're looking forward. It's the future. We're living it now. We're in the moment. It's a whole another ballgame. It's a whole another perspective. It's this year. It's about what we have. It's about pioneering back to new things and getting ourselves back to winning things like Super Bowls.

So we accomplished one mission. We're setting out for many more.

This is the truth, this is not virtual reality any more. This is straight up and down. It's a matter of fact. We're world champions.

It's going to be a showing of what we are all about and what were trying to get accomplished for the whole year. As a whole, this game is appropriate for so many reasons.

I'm going to say it early. I think we've got a dynasty. The offense is just getting going, and they're only going to get better.

I'm extremely happy for him, but I'm extremely sad for me. He'll do great at what he does, because what he does is mold men into becoming whatever they seek to become in their careers. ... The Lions are getting much more than a coach.

I guarantee we're going to kick your butt.

If we understand this is probably going to be one of the hardest games of our lives, we'll be OK.

If you're writing a story, it's about two teams that did not quit. Both fought hard. Both deserved to win.

He's well prepared. He comes up every week, and you can depend on him. He's ready to make a big play whenever we need one and therein lies the truth.

You want to get off to a start and put yourself ahead of the curve right out of the gate. You want to do that. You definitely want to stack your chips. You want to stack your nuts for all the hard times to come ahead.

The thing I see for myself is to be the best ever.

I'm a free spirit. A spirit that evolves. I'm a diamond. I'm just refining it. Polishing it. Glossing it up.

A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.

I approach football like a street-ball game, like I'm playing with the fellas in the yard.

It means everything. Making my father happy, that's my biggest joy.

For me, it's not about sacking the quarterback. It's about changing the course of the game. It's causing a crucial fumble at a crucial time. It's making a tackle for a loss when the opposing team needs to gain one or two yards for the first down. I look at myself as a sudden-impact player.

I want to do something extraordinary, not just make a tackle. I want to make people's eyes widen, like, 'God, you see that?