Quotes from Brian Urlacher

Danieal Manning is a friend of mine, he was a teammate for five or six years, and that's the way it is.

I can deal with the criticism of myself. I get mad when people talk about my teammates.

I respected opponents as well as teammates and coaches.

Anything that's on Discovery or Nat Geo, I'm pretty much watching it.

I know there are a lot of experts in the media - a bunch of smart guys out there who know exactly what they're talking about all the time. They don't know what they're talking about.

I wasn't the greatest technician when I played.

Technique wasn't my favorite thing to learn, and I doubt I would be great teaching it.

How great a life is this? To get to knock guys' heads off for 60 minutes and not get thrown in jail?

My lone concussion occurred in 2003 against Denver. I was spinning off block and right when I spun, I hit Clinton Portis with my head turned sideways. I hit him and I hit the ground. That was first big one where I was like 'Whoa.' Back then, it was no big deal.

When you change defenses, it's the same thing a lot of times. But different terminology means different things in that new defense. So you have to get accustomed to that. You have to study. Get in your books and pay attention.

First of all, we love football. We want to be on the football field as much as we can be. If we can be out there, it may be stupid, it may be dumb, call me dumb and stupid then, because that's what... I want to be on the football field.

Ricky Williams, in my opinion, was one of the better guys in the league.

Win or lose, I'm up all night. I've been that way since college - I'm going over everything in my head: woulda, coulda, shoulda.

We used to establish the run and wear teams down and try not to make mistakes, and we'd rely on our defense to keep us in the game and make big plays to put us in position to win. Kyle Orton might not be the flashiest quarterback, but the guy is a winner, and that formula worked for us.

If your quarterback can't make plays in certain situations for you to win games, he's not getting the job done.

I hope Mitch Trubisky is the best quarterback of all time.

I've got so many things I can do now with my hair. I put gel in it sometimes - it's great.

I do watch some kind of terrible shows on VH1, 'Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood,' 'Basketball Wives.' Those are like my guilty pleasures. When I want to see some drama, I'll watch those.

Football, we pretty much control what we do and how we react, and there are two days we couldn't, on the draft and on the selection for the Hall of Fame.

It's a great honor to be associated with the Hall of Fame and now to be in it. It's awesome.

Toward the end of my career, people started talking Hall of Fame, but still, you don't ever think you're going to end up there.

I wondered if teams were going to find a place for me, but the Bears said linebacker right away. I tried outside linebacker first and I was terrible. Then inside seemed to fit me.

See I'm used to seeing myself with hair now, so it's not a big deal. Now when I see pictures of me bald I'm like 'ew.' But people are used to seeing me bald so when I'm walking around without the hat on, I see people doing a lot of double takes.

I don't like a snug-fit helmet.