"“As much flak as I think I caught, and half of you guys probably thought I was arrogant and hard to deal with and a jerk. You can laugh, I’m laughing now, too.But if that’s what I have to be or if that’s what I have to become at work to make myself successful or to grab other people and inspire them or to get out of my comfort level to make my team better, then that’s what you have to do.Guys know you’re humble but also guys need to know you care. You’ve got to grab them by the collar sometimes. And when it comes to dealing with the media and being nice and humble, everything is not always about saying the right things. Everything is not always about how you look and looking right to the media. Who gives a (hoot) about that? Excuse my language. It’s about winning football games.And sometimes, you’ve got to have somebody say something bad about you, sometimes you’ve got to worry about more than playing well for yourself or how well you did in a game. You’ve got to make sure everybody does well. Because even if you don’t play that great or if you don’t have the right stats but you win, that overshadows everything. Winning is this business. Doing well on bad teams or having a lot of success when your team doesn’t, which I’ve had, it didn’t mean nothing, man, trust me. At the end of the day, when you look back and I’m going to Pro Bowls and this and that and our team was bad, pales in comparison to not going to a Pro Bowl and winning a Super Bowl. By far.”"
[Quote via the Star-Ledger]