No. I knew I wasn’t going to go there. I felt like we had a good case with the league. The players union hadn’t done their due diligence as far as processing the right papers....

Right is right and wrong is wrong.

Jerry, I know what’s expected of me. I won’t let you down.

I can’t sit here and try to tell you what Terrell is going to do,” said Dawkins, an All-Pro.

They don’t pay me to go in there and talk to everybody and be friendly to everybody,

Absolutely never happened. Not even close. I’m not sure why anyone would say that.

I knew I was going to have success here.

My publicist (Kim Etheredge) talked to the head PR guy, and he made an excuse about they didn’t recognize it or they didn’t realize it was coming up. But I know that was a blatant...

The only people that really matter are the people that are in my inner circle.

[Owens wasn’t quite so bland. He did take a colorful shot at 49ers linebacker Derek Smith, who recently called his former teammate a bad apple.] It sounds like that guy had a bad day at...

When I haven’t been outside signing autographs, I’ve been on the inside (rehabilitating) my groin. And that’s what happened today.

I don’t need the recognition and I did not expect it.

It doesn’t matter what people say about me, I weather the storm.

You never heard me say anything bad about him. You never heard me say anything bad about the situation. ? (You can) never lower yourself to what someone else may say.

God put me in the situation to go out here and still play the game. That’s why I’m here.

And I told him my name isn’t Reid. My name is Owens. I’m not one of his kids. Don’t tell me to shut up,

[According to Reid, he had a] good meeting … did a great job out there.

Get your popcorn ready, ’cause I’m gonna put on a show.

It was just a difference of opinion, … I was defending myself.

When I first got here, he seemed like more of a team guy. But I think toward the end, he really kind of fell off the deep end, if you ask me. He was just...

This ain’t San Francisco, … You ain’t bigger than this team. Shut up and play.

wasn’t the guy who got tired in the Super Bowl.

then he needs to get his sense of humor checked.

I feel like it was a little disrespectful but you know what I feel like, I have been successful, blessed and I keep my faith in God, man, and I just keep it moving.

I’m here in camp and that’s all I can say.

Our wins and losses are really predicated on how he plays,

If it wasn’t for them, I wouldn’t be here,

Not I. I’ll let those big guys [the linemen] carry coach Reid off the field.

But naked women throw themselves at T. O. all the time, and it’s not every day he gets to play for the Eagles.

Everybody is not going to be squeaky clean.

My publicist talked to the head P.R. guy, and he made the excuse that they didn’t recognize, or they didn’t realize that that was coming up. But I know that was a blatant lie. Had...

Just because I don’t talk to everybody, that’s up to me,

As you know, I have been suspended and told that I cannot play football for the rest of the season,

I’m going to work with T.O. and only T.O.,

I’m sure each one of you share my horror and disbelief over devastation along the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. I urge each one of you to place a bid, as much...

That’s right. That’s what I bring to the table, in case you somehow forgot.

If you’ve got a problem with me, then obviously something is wrong with you.

It’s been about nine months since my last touchdown celebration, … So I’m sitting on a backlog of material that I’m just dying to show my old teammates, who miss me, I’m sure.

God blessed me to play football.

Like my boy tells me; if it looks like a rat and smells like a rat, by golly, it is a rat.

If the truth needs to be told, then that’s what I’ll do, … If he [Reid] wants to be a man about it and have me really go on the air and really tell the...

When I’m around him, he tries to downplay it, like everything is cool, … But I’m not sure it is.

As you get to know me, you kind of figure me out, that I’m not as probably as bad of a guy that I’ve been reported to be. I’m not that jerk.

I have no clue who that guy is, … Is he one of the top 100 linebackers in the league? Who is that?

I may not say it all the time or I may not pray as much as I need to, but I am not forgetting where I came from and how I got to be where...

I don’t have to play football.

It’s not going to be a year-long thing. Leading up to this Monday night game, things will get worked out.

I think some people are kind of ticked off because I haven’t really said much. They don’t pay me to go in there and talk to everybody and be friendly to everybody. They paid me...

I’ll watch the highlights every now and then but, as far as watching the game, I feel like I am the game.

This is a dirty business, that is why I go out and play with my heart.