Marquand Manuel Quotations

We let them get hot. They get hot. That's kind of what happens.

He has to learn the game at a different speed at safety. I love how he gets at it. He's young, and he's hungry. He'll be a Pro Bowler before it's all said and done. Probably next year, in fact.

I was determined to be better than everyone -- get better grades, be a better athlete.

Our goal was to not let the ball get into his hands.

It felt good to be out there. We may not get all the reps, but we watch film together, and we all talk about the same things. Every day we're working.

I think guys will be focused. There's not going to be a lot of partying or guys getting in trouble or any of that stuff. The character of this team is different. This team is focused. All these guys are focused and hungry.

That's the thing a lot of people don't understand. To have the guys we have ... to have the depth that we have, not every team has that. We've got guys that could go to other teams and start.

You knock him on the line and now they can't throw deep. The QB doesn't have that kind of time.

We can be under the radar. That's OK. It's just about going out every week and trying to execute.

When they come, they come in bunches. And they did (Monday).

When Peter landed I was the first person he called. I've been on that side of the new Marvin regime so I understood everything he was going through. I just told him to let bygones be bygones. They're moving forward, so you have to move forward.

We said in the secondary we can't let one guy do that to us -- that's all we said. He's a great player.

We're totally about team. It was our defensive line, linebackers and secondary. We all did it. Together we shut down Steve Smith. That's how this team wins. Together.

We've had a lot of players go down this season. It started with Alex Bannister. And each time we've had someone else step up and take their place.

We went out there to win that game, and he was with us. It was an emotional win, and everybody knows he would have been playing the same way and doing the same thing.

Everything you think could go wrong went wrong. But we just kept playing.

At this level, to have the guys that we have, at corner and safety and linebacker, every team doesn't have that. And then to have the caliber of guys; we've got guys that could go on other teams and start.

I've never missed that many tackles in a game. Ever.

After Mom and Dad, I started with the oldest and worked my way down. The youngest ones, sorry, just aren't going to be able to come.

One guy wasn't going to beat us. Smith did it against Chicago. He's a good player, but he wasn't going to do it against us.

Dreams do come true. You've got to keep working hard because you never know when your opportunity will come.

You're one of us. We're part of winning here.

You don't get that many chances to play in these types of games. You've got to go out there and give it your best shot.

It was a lot of fun. The biggest thing is that it taught me how to overcome adversity, how to pick and choose friends and how to trust people. I think that's the biggest thing.

They can keep (Seattle's defense) under the radar if they want. We've got a great offense and I'll take my hat off to them, but defense wins championships.

I know what kind of a team they are. I'm going to tell these guys, pack your lunch and be ready. Those guys are going to come to play every play of the game.

I just went from oldest to youngest. I didn't want to take the older ones away from work too long.

You can write whatever you want, but that game was exactly what it was. That's how we played. This is probably a blessing in disguise, for us to get it out of our system.