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"I'm 25 and I'm a world champion. There is no feeling like this. My body is tingling. We're world champions, anyway you look at it. If you can't put us down as the greatest defense in history now, we'll never be. We dominated everybody we played."
Ray Lewis, Defensive Player of the Year and Super Bowl XXXV MVP |
"To the people in Baltimore city, to the people in Baltimore County and to the state of Maryland, this belongs to you."
Art Modell, Ravens owner
Addressing the fans of Baltimore upon receiving the Vince Lombardi Trophy |
"I thought Art really cheated Cleveland. That is our team. He's a traitor. I really feel he's a traitor. It really hurts to see them even winning at halftime."
Ken Thomas, Parma, Ohio native
On watching the former Browns jump out to a 10-0 halftime lead in Super Bowl XXXV |
"Trent Dilfer, coming back to this town, proving wrong everybody who ever told him that he ain't no good. ... I'm going to speak for Trent. Trent, is it all right if I speak for you? To all the people who didn't think Trent Dilfer could lead us to a world championship, kiss my ass! There you go, Trent. I know you can't say that. And God bless you."
Tony Siragusa, Ravens DT |
"We just decided as a group that winning, that looking each other in the eyes, was more important than what you guys say about us."
Trent Dilfer, Ravens QB
On media scrutiny of the Ravens' lackluster offense |
"Quite honestly, some of us took a lot of grief about it. But we knew it was the right thing to do. Art Modell and the entire team and the fans really brought it all home. I'm hoping this is the start of a three-peat, as far as I'm concerned. We're going to do this every single year."
Parris Glendening, Maryland governor
On supporing the effort to lure the Browns from Cleveland to Baltimore in 1996 |
"Any time you throw the ball in the squat corner, you're going to be in trouble. I had a positive read. I had an upper hand on that. I baited him up all day."
Duane Starks, Ravens CB
On his third-quarter interception return for a touchdown |
"This group has done that all year long. They have an attitude and they're going to play that way. There's a difference between confident and loose and too loose. This group knows how to enjoy themselves, stay focused when need be and go to work."
Brian Billick, Ravens head coach
On his team talking the talk and walking the walk |
"How does the 'Goose' celebrate tonight? I was thinking about how I could unzip my stomach and just take my liver out and have someone fill it up. Because I didn't really want to lift anything any more. But I guess I'll have a couple pops, yeah."
Tony Siragusa, Ravens DT
On his postgame beverage consumption plans |
"I don't think [Baltimore's defense] does anything very exotic. In a lot of their games, they just line up and kick people's butts."
Kerry Collins, Giants QB
On the style of Baltimore's defense |
"The further you go, the bigger the pill to swallow. But this doesn't change the way I feel about this team. ... This team will be back to this game."
Jim Fassel, Giants head coach |
"It's not exactly how we planned for it to turn out."
Jason Sehorn, Giants CB |
"We'll be back. We'll be back. We'll live to fight another day. It didn't work out today. We got our butts kicked and I played terrible, but I'll come back."
Kerry Collins, Giants QB
On struggling in his first appearance in the Super Bowl |
"They came out determined and they came out and beat us. They beat us physically, they beat us mentally and they beat us emotionally."
Lomas Brown, Giants RT |
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