Bob Sanders Quotes
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I think we did make a statement, because we played one of the most physical teams in the league.
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We want to get better and more physical each week. They play physical and they've got great players. But this is all about us. We want to do what we do.
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They may say, 'He's small. We really don't know if he can get the job done.' But they said that about me coming out of high school.
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The entire roof was all the way across the street.
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Everybody knows and understands what Coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.
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I got into it that I'm going to win every time. It doesn't matter the size, height, weight, whatever. I really don't care. I'm not afraid of going in there, putting my body in there and making a tackle against a big guy.
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If you hit somebody hard enough, they will give up. You can feel their body go limp and they'll just surrender. So every time I hit somebody, the goal is to knock myself out. I know that if I hit somebody hard enough that I can feel it, it's hurting them 10 times worse.
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I've made a few hits where I'll look up at the screen and be like, 'Oh my God.' Like it wasn't even me, like I just watched another guy kill this guy, and I don't even think that was me that made that hit.
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I think that sparked something for us. We had been doing it all year, hitting hard, playing tough, playing physical, but I think being on that big Monday Night Football stage and playing a physical team like the Steelers made people notice.
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The familiarity they have with me and the scheme, I think, will help us tremendously.
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He's getting a lot of pressure in the backfield, stopping a lot of runs. That helps so much. One of our big problems last year was we gave up too many big runs.
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As a defense, we want to go into every game and have our offense and the rest of the team rely on us. We pulled it off a second week in a row, and I hope we can keep doing it.
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We talked about being fast, about being physical. Everyone on our team is fast. Everyone on our team is physical. ... Everybody understands what coach Dungy wants out of the defense. Once we figured it out, it was easy for us to go out and play fast, play hard.
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Size doesn't matter. It's all about the heart.