OFFENSIVE TACKLE FLOZELL ADAMS
(on other players wearing Michigan State jerseys in his honor this week) “That made me feel good. It makes me feel real good. I was happy about it; felt good that the players, the offensive line guys felt enough to be able to buy the jerseys and show appreciation as much as I appreciate them.
(on if he’ll be nervous on the day of the game) “Yeah, I mean, I’ve never experienced a Super Bowl. There’s always going to be some type of nervousness. I get nervous before mostly every game. It’s not nervous as far as being scared of an opponent; it’s more of what I’m going to do and how I’m going to do it in whatever particular situations that come and everything like that. Being in the Super Bowl, I’m sure it’s going to be a little bit of nervousness, but once you just start cracking helmets out there, it’s going to be like the same old thing. You’ve just got to go out there and do the best you can.”
(On how it feels to know his teammates want to win one for him) “It feels good. You know, there’s 20 something guys on this team that have already won a Super Bowl, but one is never enough.”
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SAFETY TROY POLAMALU
(on what it means to get to the Super Bowl with this current Pittsburgh team) “You always look back on the experience after you win the game. We’ve been fortunate enough to be in this game and not walk away when the confetti is not in black and gold. But that has everything to do with the experience. I don’t know how you look back at this season, but to this point, it’s amazing. It’s amazing that guys like James Farrior and Hines Ward, these cornerstones of our locker room,
have led us to this point for a third time.”
(on if he looks around the locker room and sees players who may be in their final year) “Our strength has never been in our talent. It’s always been in our virtues, of our hard work and most importantly our camaraderie, our humility and how we respect the game and respect our opponents. That’s something youth can never have. It takes a lot of experience. It takes a lot of chemistry, a lot of life experience to have that.
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Wide Receiver Hines Ward
(On how much motivation they get from being the underdog) “That’s not our motivation. Our motivation is to win the Lombardi Trophy, regardless of if we’re underdogs or not underdogs. We’re not a flashy team. You still have to play the game regardless of if you’re underdogs. That’s just part of the story and something to talk about. We as players, we don’t make the odds. We still have to go out there and play the game. We’ve been the underdogs kind of for the past two weeks it seems like. No one picked us. Coach (Bill) Cowher picked the Jets against us. It still doesn’t matter to us. We still have to play the game.”