Famous Quotes & Sayings

Omar Khayyam

And that inverted bowl we call The Sky, where under crawling coop't we live and die, lift not thy hands to It for help -- for it rolls impotently on as thou or I.

Casey Hampton

All that is overrated. You play, and it doesn't matter if you've been here. You forget all about the Super Bowl stuff when you get out there on the field. You've got to be ready to go no matter if you've been here or not. Then, you've got to go.

The Giants will always represent New York in the sort of in-your-face move that being in the Super Bowl presents to the way the rest of the country mostly thinks of us: huge, cold, rich, conceited, unnatural, deserving therefore of all our misfortunes.

The Dove spot was not a typical Super Bowl commercial, but it really broke through.

The Friday night time slot for the New Orleans Bowl is ideal for the Conference USA participant. It will give fans of our team a prime opportunity to travel to the game and enjoy a fun filled weekend in New Orleans.

The fun and all that stuff, in terms of the bowl experience, you can only take it so far. And now it's time to play. That's where the real fun begins, and that's the reason why you're here.

Joe Posnanski

The fun of the Super Bowl is the week leading into it; once it's actually played, the story dies down very, very quickly.

This is a good experience. It's not a nice experience. But it's a good experience to be in a bowl game and play under that kind of pressure and know now that you've experienced that and the next time it comes around, you'll be better prepared for it.

Pete Carroll

This is all we could hope for -- it's the Rose Bowl. We get to play in the Rose Bowl in the national championship game.

This is a huge game for UC Davis as they are making the move into Division I football, kind of like their bowl game.

All bowlers are subject to further reporting if the match officials are of the view that they have concerns about whether a delivery or deliveries conform to the laws of cricket when observed with the naked eye.

The Holiday Bowl Parade is a fantastic parade,

Dick Vermeil

You can see why they were in the Super Bowl last year. We played with them a long time, but not long enough.

Vince Wilfork

We're not going to bow down to anybody, we know what we have to do to compete on this level and it starts with Jacksonville.

We sent them to the New Orleans Bowl with a losing record.

David Butler

To me this millipede is more the kind of thing that Tom is famous for. It is a little weird, it's cute, and it's a little threatening, this giant bug that could eat you -- but it's also wearing little shoes and a bowler hat. It's whimsical and frightening at the same time.

To me, this is as good as a BCS game. Everybody will be watching us. It's not like one of those rinky-dink bowl games that people don't watch. This is a big-time bowl.

Kirk Herbstreit

Each of the five bowl games features great teams, proud schools and exciting student athletes. Mr. Gibson and his sons are the envy of every single college football fan in America.

Steve Smith

Everyone may say we're a Super Bowl team. We're not. We're a one-win playoff team.

Everyone remembers Vinatieri. The Super Bowl is where he got his name from.

Everybody is telling me he's going to go between 12 and 20. I'm not buying into that yet. (Ware) showed me at the Senior Bowl a year ago that he was a first-round big. Manny Lawson did not show me that.

Everybody is so excited about getting to a bowl ? but it is not enough. We want to win this football game and that's it. I would hope that every player on our team wants to win in the worst way and does all they can to do that.

Everybody knows what kind of player he is ? Pro Bowl player, All-Pro player, a great competitor on and off the field. He's a great teacher. I learned a lot from him, and I'm pretty sure some of the other guys (on the Jets) are going to learn some things from him, too.

Larry Fitzgerald

The New England Patriots won the Super Bowl last year. They lost two games, so we got our first two losses out of the way early.

Casey Hampton

It's pretty wild, all the people around. It's a good thing, though. We're here at the Super Bowl trying to win a big game and people want to know about us.

Fred Smoot

Daunte is a Pro Bowl player, man. He's in a slump right now. Pitchers get in slumps like that. ... There ain't no team in the NFL counting on him to have those type of games every week. He'll be all right, no problem.

Michel Therrien

It's so great just to get to the Super Bowl and so great for the city. Pittsburgh is just a great city for sports. Things on the hockey side have been tough lately, but we're rebuilding and we're cheering them on.

Stephen Fleming

That gives the bowlers more time to recover, and it gives us more opportunities to win games rather than chase games.

Bob Lewis

Talking with local bowlers at that time, it was clear that the center had a promising future ? the town was growing and growing younger. Weeks later we were the new owners of the bowling alley.

Super Bowl is a very strong weekend for the Strip as it brings a good profile of gamblers into town for an extended weekend.

Sure, being a Pro Bowler every year helps, but be a guy who shows up every week so they know what they're getting, ... It definitely makes a big difference. But be a positive influence in the locker room, be a guy who has great work ethic, who shows up every week, gives what he has.

Shaun Alexander

I told Clinton I want him to rush for 2,000 yards. And I want our team to go to the Super Bowl and win it. I've been there and not won it. It's really simple for me. You get stats, fame and fortune, but if you don't end up with the ring you're never satisfied.

It's an exciting time. There's only one first bowl game in a team's history, and we're playing in it.