Champ Bailey
Champ Bailey
Roland "Champ" Bailey Jr.is a former American football cornerback in the National Football League. He played college football for Georgia, where he earned consensus All-American honors, and was drafted by the Washington Redskins in the first round of the 1999 NFL Draft...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth22 June 1978
CityFolkston, GA
corners defense defensive definitely good line piece plays teams
Their defense is definitely better because of ... He makes plays a lot of corners can't. . . . If you have a shutdown corner, teams also have to go the other way, so you take away a good piece of the field. He makes the linebackers better, he makes the defensive line better.
clouds dwell football playing season vision week
It's great. I'll look back on it after the season and I'll think about it. But we're still playing football and I try not to dwell on it because it kind of clouds your vision for the week ahead.
knows mess played respect talk whistle
I know him very well. I played with him two years in college. We'll talk and mess around. I respect his game, but he knows when that whistle blows, it doesn't matter. We are going at each other's throats.
kansas played
The way they played up there in Kansas City, it ain't the same, though,
concerned great help missed players shows sitting team
(The streak) is important and it shows accountability but at the same time, I'm not really concerned with it. There's a lot of great players that have missed a lot of games, so I'm not concerned with that. It's just (that) I want to be out there to help my team win, and I know I can't do anything sitting on the sidelines.
hard playing
They're playing a little different. They're not playing as hard.
played players toughest
He's one of the toughest players I've ever played with.
played
Look at his quotes. He did say they should have played harder,
gas kept ran totally toward willpower
I was totally gassed. I ran out of gas at the 30-yard line. Only willpower kept me going toward the end zone.
believed nobody season
I said it before the season and I believed it. I said this was a championship-level team. We believed that, even if nobody else did.
backyard everybody felt forget job kicking shy speaking sure talk
I'm sure they will. We'll be in their backyard and they'll forget what I said. Everybody said it. And I'm not going to shy away from speaking my mind. I mean, I felt like I was kicking their (butt) so I just said it. . . . I say that about everybody. If I'm doing my job and doing it well, then I'm going to talk about it.
behave carry coming definitely example guy model prime throughout whether
He is definitely a prime example of how to be a pro, whether it's on the field, off the field, whatever. You can't have a better model for a young guy coming in on how to behave yourself and how to carry yourself. He's definitely done all the right things throughout his career.
overcome time year
I've never had a year like this, ... This is the first time I've had to overcome this many at one time.
responding sports tough
I think we're tough when we do things like that. We were responding to some things they like to do. We're active.