Willie Parker
Willie Parker
Willie Everette Parker, Jr. is a retired American football running back who played for six seasons for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League. After playing college football for North Carolina, he was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2004...
ProfessionFootball Player
Date of Birth11 November 1980
CityClinton, NC
blame coaches decided eye player seeing situations
I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye. It was one of those situations where the coaches are going to be always right and the player is never right. They decided not to play me, and I had to live with it.
blame eye seeing
I wouldn't blame it all on the coaches. I will take some of the blame, also. We just weren't seeing eye to eye.
biggest came care record seed shocked sixth
Records? I don't really care about that record. The biggest record is that we were the sixth seed and we came in and shocked the world.
wide
I thought it was going to come back to me. But Hines was wide open.
watching
Man, watching Jerome all day long, he just is what he is.
room saw stay time training
I was in the training room and that's the first time I saw ESPN. I stay away from it.
room saw stay time training
I was in the training room and that's the first time I saw ESPN, ... I stay away from it.
control happened happens
We know there is a lot of history. We don't look at that, because when things are said and done, what happened then, and what happened yesterday, won't have any control over what happens on Sunday. We just go out and play this game.
filling guys looked looking player ready role starting though
I always look at myself as a role player anyways, so I wasn't looking at myself as the starter, ... Even though I was starting I looked at it as though I was filling in. When those guys got back I was ready for whatever.
crying
He had me crying every night. He's too much.
call crazy destroy explain feeling good knew phone
I can't explain what I was going through at that time. I knew I was doing some good things on the field, and I was feeling really confident, but I also knew that one phone call could destroy all of it. Like I said, I had confidence, but there's also this feeling you have. It's a crazy feeling, one that isn't very fun.
alan easy hole paved score
We wanted to come out and score right away and get some momentum. Alan paved the hole and then it was just me and the safeties. I had the easy part.
accolades defensive gets happy offensive team
More interviews, ... I'm just happy for this team that we got a win. The accolades will always be there. It's not really about who gets offensive awards, defensive awards, it's about the team and the win.
along arm came expecting guy helped saw took type
When I came here, I wasn't even expecting to play. He (Bettis) was a type of guy who took me under his arm and saw something in me and he just helped me out along the way.