Derrick Brooks Played Quotations

We've got to re-establish our personality. That group I played with back then, you saw a personality. Guys trusting each other. Embarrassed if they didn't make it to the pile in time. Now it's time for a new personality to come along and get established.

Twice we've played him and he's hurt us for big runs.

We have a good defensive team. You have a good group of guys who made the team defensively so I wasn't surprised we went out there and played well.

They get beat up so much. I think these guys stepped up and played well with basically two rookies starting. These guys kept pounding and pounding.

We just played collectively as a unit. Everybody did their job and pitched in.

Obviously, we wanted to play better than we played last week, come out of the gates a little faster. We had an opportunity to make some plays ... and we did.

In this game there are so many rules favoring the offense. To see a little defense being played is a good thing.

Let's not be naive to the system. For the countless examples of people who have changed teams, there are countless of examples of people who haven't changed teams. Darrell Green finished his career with the Redskins and he always was one of the highest-paid cornerbacks in the league. Jackie Slater was always one of the highest-paid tackles in the league and he played his whole career with the Rams. Brett Favre got a $100-million contract a few years ago and they found a way to keep him, so it can be done. Is it important to me? Yes. Is it in my hands? No.