Portis Quotes

You've got enough guys who are sick of losing who know what it takes. It don't take a pep talk or a rah-rah (speech) or bringing somebody in from the dead to get us hyped. ... We've just got to go out and play football. - Clinton Portis

You're used to doing one thing, and you turn around and turn into a grinder -- 3 yards a carry. - Clinton Portis

You pick your poison. You either give up the deep ball to Santana and (Chris) Cooley or let me grind it out. - Clinton Portis

You know, he figured out everything. Like I told you, I'm trying to figure out a way to get into the end zone. - Clinton Portis

You couldn't have told me after that first play that I wasn't going to have 2,000 yards. If I don't become a home run hitter, I'm going to get the 5s and the 4s and let them pile up. Somehow, someway, we'll be a 1,500-yard rusher. - Clinton Portis

You cannot live life by what-ifs. - Clinton Portis

When we started 3-0, everybody jumped on the bandwagon. But when we were 5-6, everybody jumped off and said, 'the Redskins suck!' But this, what we did, was a tremendous effort. - Clinton Portis

We've got to be focused. We can't let a QB switch depress us. We can't let it get us down. Whoever's back there, we've got to roll with it. - Clinton Portis

We're thinking about printing the lyrics with the next record so that people can find their own meaning in them. But then they would start having a life of their own, and I think the Portishead music should stay a whole in which the lyrics come second, actually. - Beth Gibbons

Well, ... I might as well keep a sense of humor because if I leave it up to you all, you're going to run me into the ground, drive me crazy. The last two weeks we haven't won, so now it's becoming a problem. When you're winning, it really don't matter, but when you're not winning, it becomes a problem. We've lost our last two games, and I've got to find a way to get in the end zone. - Clinton Portis