Darwin Walker Quotations

Mike is going to be a good player. He's got good balance and quickness. He's got some things to learn, but he's going to be a good player.

I have great respect for Dick Vermeil. He has watched over me and taken care of me since I took the job here. I think he's a fine, Hall-of-Fame football coach and he'll have that football team prepared.

I feel the Eagles have really done a good job of making those type of decisions. Being a businessman myself, I definitely had my opinion of what I thought their next move would be. I suspected that something like this would happen.

I think deep down he really wanted to be here. I think he wanted to be an Eagle, without a doubt. He realizes that this is a business, and that's the way it goes sometimes. For him, this is bittersweet. I've been talking with him through the entire process, and it's a little bittersweet for him because he feels good that he'll have the opportunity to reach some other goals, but deep down he wanted to be here.

We realize this is a business. We go to work, and we take care of our business. But when we line up on the field, we're a team. That's how we play.

When you're outside looking in, you think every bad play you could have made a difference, ... It hurts when the team is losing and there's nothing I can do about it. All I can do is try to be a difference maker when I get back.

When you are on the outside looking in, you think every bad play you could have made, ... That's not really realistic, but it hurts when your team is losing. The only thing I can do is have the mind-set that when I get back in there I can be a difference maker.

We wanted to contain Vick and I felt that for the most part we did that. He got us a couple of times, but we stayed after him.

There's a lot of character in this locker room. I think what you'll see this week is a team coming out ready to play.

It was definitely a fluke, but these things happen, ... It was an accident. But that?s football. You just try to move on, try to get better, get out there and help your team.

It's pretty obvious that the tackles are playing pretty well right now.

They look totally different. They look like a team that's playing with some purpose. They're playing hard and making plays all over the place.

All I can do is try to be a difference-maker once I do get back out there, ... Maybe I can free up another guy. Maybe I can take the double-team and somebody else makes a play. I just want to get myself totally healthy and get back out there and help out.

All we can do is try to win with the guys we have in the locker room. That's the bottom line.