Charles Woodson Quotations

Playing with Aaron Rodgers, every time I went into a game you always felt like no matter what happens, he was going to bail you out somehow. He was that kind of guy. He was one of the three or four guys you have in the league right now that no matter where you are or what’s going on in the game, you have a chance with him.

Russell Wilson knows who he is. He’s not a running quarterback, he’s not a throwing quarterback – he’s an athlete back there playing the quarterback position. He knows that, he understands it and his team allows him to be who he is.

I couldn't believe it. That was the first time I had ever seen somebody celebrate for a whole 40-second clock. That was ridiculous.

When I look at the way I was able to play in my 17th year, I feel like I earned the right to play in the NFL for another one,

Andrew Luck, if he gets to his first Super Bowl and he wins that Super Bowl, that means he won on the road every game except for that first playoff game. He went and beat Peyton Manning…Then that means he went and beat Tom Brady…Then he would either have to beat Aaron Rodgers or the Seattle Seahawks. That’s a pretty tough hill to climb. If he does that, he’s just solidified himself in that conversation as an elite quarterback.

If you limit yourself, in my opinion you’re just saying, ‘We’re not supposed to win this game.’ You’re playing into their hands. You are scared of what of this team does. You can’t go into the game scared, that’s for sure. Richard Sherman, a great player but you have to play football.

I allowed myself to relax, and there's just no excuse for it. Anytime you relax on that field, big plays can happen. We can't let that happen in games like this.

I think it is what it is -- we come out and we play well early in the game and then just let it slip away late in the game. It is second team, third team. What we're looking at is when our starters are in there, we're doing a good job.

I thought we played pretty well, but we just didn't make enough plays. That was the thing we've got to do at all costs, we've got to get the ball back (for the offense).

It is away from us right now. We have to find a way to track it down and get it back in our grasp. Everybody has to dig deep.

You knew the fans were ready to explode, waiting for that. He's going to have fun with them this year.

We're a good team, I believe. I think we can turn this around.

We've been getting hammered a little bit. It's almost like we're not going to contribute to whatever happens this season. Guys are going to step up to the challenge this year, take it upon ourselves as a defensive unit to go out there and get it done. You'll see a big change in us this season.

We should have had somebody on him -- simple as that.

There's no blame on the coaches for that aspect of it.

The sad part of it is that we had a great week of practice. There was no reason for it to go down the way it did today.

The sad part about it is, we had a great week of practice. To come out and play the way we did today is frustrating. For whatever reason, I don't know, we started off the game pretty slow. We were in disarray at times, and there was no reason for us to be that way. They didn't give us anything we hadn't seen on film. That is disappointing.

It's away from us right now. We've got to find a way to track it down. Run it down and get it back in our grasp ? 1-4 is not a very pretty record.

It's not too much pressure. That's what we drafted him for. You throw him in early, and you hope that midway through the season, he's playing like he's been there before.

That's one of the breakdowns that I am talking about. We went over all that stuff this week. Everybody understood what we had to do. ... Nobody picked him up. That's on us as a defense.

Everybody wants to be a hero, so to speak. But it takes everybody. Those four downs, it was somebody different on those four plays. It was a team effort.

It seemed like we were in disarray at times when there was no reason for us to be that way. They didn't give us anything different than what we saw on film. That's disappointing.

It's too many mistakes. We found a way to win today. But those games where we can put teams away and not let 'em back in the game, we've got to do it.

Any time you are 1-4 it's a challenge to keep everybody into it. It is going to come down to the individual and you hope you don't lose guys one by one.

I'm trying to make a play. I saw an opening and tried to run with it.

I don't believe in feeling good about being close. Close ain't winning. We felt like we should have won that game, could have won that game, but just didn't come through when we had to.

The first half definitely did not go the way we anticipated. We came out in the second half and gave a good effort.

The last game, we didn't start off well. We let them drive down the field and score a touchdown, and that's something we can't do.