“They tore up his deal. I would have taken value at that time. I hoped they would have let me ride into the sunset as a Bengal, like Jonathan Ogden as a Raven.”
“We haven't done anything yet. We're judged at the end of the year, whether or not you're in the playoffs playing in the cold weather, or at home watching TV. That's how we're judged.”
“Bratkowski has been preaching to us the last couple of years that our will to prepare to win has to be greater than our will to win. That's what the good football teams do. They out-prepare people. We have to get our young guys' football knowledge up. You don't need to run a 4.4 in the 40-yard dash to do it. We've got to play smart football.”
“With me, coming form the Bengals and offensive lineman, I was automatically compared to Anthony Munoz, ... Any pass rusher, I don't care what team, has the expectation of being the next Bruce Smith, or Coy Bacon here in Cincinnati. People expect high sack totals, but Justin's game is much more than that.”
“I get tired of hearing about the Bengals' draft picks, ... They talk about picks in the early '90s. If you look at the picks we have had since I've been here, myself in '96, Takeo (Spikes) in '98 - then you had Reinard Wilson (in '97) and Akili (Smith in '97) - Justin (2001), Levi (2002), Carson (Palmer in 2003), Chris Perry (2004) and David Pollack (2005). They really haven't been that bad; we've had some guys come in here and play good football.”
“I just walked into his office and said, 'Your boy was real good in the huddle,' ... He kept everybody calm. I didn't sense any (anxiety) in his eyes or in his voice. We kind of fed off that.”
