Tamba Hali Quotations

We were blood-born (to his father). He was already (remarried) here. She was married as well. So she couldn't file for her.

We've got to prove that we can be a great football team week in and week out.

I think in the back of his mind, he knew we were coming. He still had to do his job, but he knew we were coming.

That's the reason I came to Penn State. I looked at other schools but when I saw Penn State's fans, I said, they love their football.

We played with a lot of penalties. We played stupid, hitting guys when they're still out of bounds. We had a lot of chances to get off the field.

We got in contact with him from the airport. He uses amateur radios, and that's how we reached him. He sponsored us to come to the United States.

When you file for a person you have to be a relative, blood born.

We weren't going to let them drop back and pass. Every time he went back, we got to him. The pressure was great. They weren't going to get down the field.

We didn't know what to do. Then it started happening all the time. So we went into hiding.

Before it was real hard getting in contact with her because we didn't know where she was. Now she's in a stable place. It's a relief just knowing she's doing better.

Sometimes you'd see a lot of people killed, sometimes maybe just a person. Sometimes you'd see a stack of bodies on the side of the road as you were walking.

Sometimes it would be a lot (of people). Sometimes it would be just one. Sometimes you'd see a stack of bodies sitting on the side of the road while you're walking.

After a couple of times of this, my mother and (stepfather) thought (the kids) should flee the country.

That was 1994. But I'm trying to bring her over now. My sister, too.

You never come into a game thinking it's going to be easy. But everything really went our way in this one.

They were graduating 86-90 percent of their athletes that year, and they were graduating minorities (at a) high (rate). Everything just fell into place for me.

It was a lot of emotion. We've lost so many games to them in our past history. We had the Big Ten title at stake and we had to play well.

It's going to be drastic for her. She's going to go from living in a hut to living in a nice home.

It's going to be a drastic change for her. She has no clue what's going on, that she won't have to live in a hut, that she will be living in a nice home.

It shows we can keep people out of the end zone. Calvin fumbled the ball, and we didn't put our heads down.

It's hard to explain to somebody what it's like when they haven't really gone through it. We produce a lot of war games, and we've seen (on TV) what happened in Iraq. But it's hard to explain to people what it's like to actually be in that situation and feeling like maybe today I could die.

It's big, man. Nobody believed in us. We come in and go 11-1, win the Big Ten and then come here and win the Orange Bowl. I mean, you can't ask for more.

I keep her in my prayers. I don't try to make it a burden on me, every day worrying about her. I just have faith that she's doing well.

I just kept reminding them that I wanted to play the end position. I felt like playing the end position was where I was going to excel. I felt that was where I was going to make my living.

He picks on me all the time because he sees something in me that I can be better at. Little things, paying attention to detail.

The coaches just told us to go out and have fun.

Three of them got killed. My mother was shot in the knee. But by God's grace, she's still alive.