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Super Bowl quotebook
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From the Titans
Jeff Fisher: "I believe you saw the real Steve McNair tonight. He did what we asked him to do. He left it on the field. ... I told him we will be
back."
Fisher: "We did everything we could to give ourselves a chance to
win. We went for two. We went for it on fourth down. We got within six
inches of an opportunity."
Fisher on Kurt Warner: "He took a pounding. He was hit and hit and
hit but kept playing and made the plays to win the game."
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Eddie George: "I couldn't tell you how I feel right now. I am still
emotionally involved in the game, and it is like kind of shocking that it
is over. But you know? It is going to be something tough to deal with,
something I can grow on, something I can learn from."
George: "It was one hell of a ride. From Buffalo, to winning at
Indianapolis, to beating Jacksonville three times, to getting here. It
will always be special to me. We just fell short."
Brad Hopkins: "Falling short like that really tears your heart out. But we know with hard work and determination we can be right back where we were this year."
Kevin Dyson on the final play: "It's ironic that it came down to something like that. Maybe I should have pitched it back to somebody. ... I was
thinking that to come this far and be a half-yard short is just a sick feeling."
Steve McNair: "You've got two good teams out there fighting and playing their butts off, and the bad thing is that somebody has got to lose."
Bruce Matthews: "We have gone through a lot of things over the years and that Super Bowl team today is what we are about in a nutshell. We battled. It was a championship effort. It's obviously disappointing because it didn't work out. But it's going to take a while for this to sink in."
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One memory (from the game)? The
cannons and confetti going off after the game and knowing that they're not for us. I'm
going to live with that for a while. It's going to drive us. ” |
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Barron Wortham on Warner: "That guy was unstoppable today. He was putting the ball in the right places, even though we were getting tremendous pressure on him. He was just doing the right things today."
Fisher: "I am especially proud because we've been underdogs. We were
underdogs today. Not many people thought we'd pull this off. We stuck with
our plan. We came out in the second half and made a game of it. I thought
we'd have to score 24 or 28 points to win. We fell a little short."
Jevon Kearse on the game-winning touchdown: "I beat (Rams tackle) Fred
Miller, but it was just a lucky throw and a lucky catch. Miller is a great
offensive lineman, but I have to give most of the credit to Kurt Warner."
Jason Fisk: "I can guarantee you that Kurt (Warner) will be sore in the morning. We put some hits on him. But it just wasn't in time. He was
getting rid of the ball too quickly."
Fisk: "One memory (from the game)? The cannons and confetti going off
after the game and knowing that they're not for us. I'm going to live with
that for a while. It's going to drive us."
Frank Wycheck: "Everybody in the huddle thought we were going to score. It was a good-looking two-minute drill. It was just a matter of having no timeouts and running out of time."
From the Rams
|  | | | Mike Jones wasn't about to let go of Dyson on the last play. |
Mike Jones: "I said, 'This time, no matter who it is, I can't let him in
the end zone. We got a chance to win this game. Get him on the ground.'
And that's what I did."
Dick Vermeil: "(The Titans) deserve a lot of credit. But we were the world
champions and world championship games are supposed to be tough football
games. I think we showed America what the Super Bowl is all about today."
Vermeil on the game-winning TD: "Mike (Martz) said, 'Let's go to Isaac.'
The ball was slightly underthrown, he went back, got it, the gifted
athlete that he is. The ball was in his hands. You saw the rest."
Vermeil: "I'd just as soon win 32-0, really. But in terms of the Super
Bowl and the American football fan, it had to be great to watch. Nobody
left, I know that."
Vermeil: "Kurt Warner is Kurt Warner. It is not a fairy tale; it is real life. He is an example of what we all would like to be on and off the field. He is a great example of persistence and believing in himself and a deep faith. ... What else can you write? He is a movie; he is a book, that guy."
Marshall Faulk: "Oh my! This is unbelievable!"
Kurt Warner: "I believe in (God) and I believe in myself and with the two
of us together there is nothing that I feel we can't accomplish."
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Warner: "We worked hard for this and we knew it was going to be a great
game, a tough game, and we just made the one play that put us over the
top. All that other stuff, who cares?"
Warner: "I knew that I had to have a good game for us to win the Super
Bowl -- no question about that. But if you are a quarterback and you don't
feel like you can make the plays and don't feel like you have got to make
plays every week, then you are in the wrong business and the wrong
position."
Isaac Bruce: "I knew I had to make a play on the ball. That wasn't me.
That was all God. I was dog-tired. ... It was called 999. I knew I was
going to be one-on-one and that I was going to make the catch."
Todd Collins: "If you're like me, you're videotaping everybody, you're
trying to hug everybody, you're smoking cigars. You're glad you got to the
pinnacle of your profession. What a great game that was."
Collins on chasing McNair: "It looked like a pee-wee game. It looked like
we were completely exhausted, and he was the big kid just running around.
Nobody could catch him."
Kevin Carter on McNair: "Probably one of the strongest quarterbacks I have
ever played against. He has the heart the size of a basketball, I will
tell you that."
London Fletcher: "This is the ultimate game. It still hasn't hit me. Can
you believe that I am at a loss for words?"
Todd Lyght: "There was an empty spot in the pit of my stomach with all the
losing, and that's filled now. That void is filled."
Fletcher: "(Vermeil) prepared us two years ago for tonight's situation,
and it came down to gut-check time. Guys in the huddle were saying, 'Suck
it up. You have all offseason to rest. Empty your bucket.' And that's what
we did."
Adam Timmerman: "I think right now there's just kind of this feeling of utopia right now. You forget everything else and you're just happy for the
moment."
Torry Holt: "My shoulder right now is really killing me. I can't lift it any further than (shoulder level). But it was worth it. We're the world
champions. ... My (late) mother is always looking down on me. I just wish
she keeps smiling. She is doing a lot of bobbing and weaving right now."
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