Raiders Quotes

Die Hard, Indiana Jones, and Lethal Weapon were the movies that really kicked it off for me in high school. I saw a making-of Raiders of the Lost Ark documentary and thought, `Man, that`s the job I want to do.`

"I hate these people (the Rams and their owner, Georgia Frontiere) for what they did, taking the Rams logo with them when they moved to St. Louis. That logo belonged to Southern California." - on the Rams` move to St. Louis. Months later, the Raiders moved back to Oakland.

What kept us going was the thought that David Lean, at 54, had done this every day for a year. David Lean was our criterion for survival. - on filming Raiders of the Lost Ark in Tunisia

It`s funny; the two teams we`ve got the most exposure on are the Vikings and the Raiders,

(-- Corey Dillon had a tremendous preseason and looked to be in mid-season form following the Pats` third exhibition game, a win at Green Bay, but he was bottled up against the Raiders, who held the Pats to 73 yards on 31 carries. Dillon finished with 23 carries for 63 yards but had just six runs for 3 yards at halftime.) Did you see how big those guys are? ... They have DEs playing linebacker. They play some ball.

You know that after the success of Raiders, nothing was too expensive, and probably nothing was too outlandish, either after that.

I mean, I really liked those guys and the experience of doing Raiders was really good for me, but I did not really want to be involved - I only did Jedi, as I really owed George a favor.

Steven was very, very happy with the script and said it was the best draft of anything since Raiders of the Lost Ark. That`s really high praise and gave me a real sense of accomplishment, especially when you love the material you`re working on as much as I love the Indiana Jones films. And then you have George Lucas read it and say, `Yeah, I don`t think so, I don`t like it.` And then he resets it to zero when Spielberg is ready to shoot it that coming year, (which) is a real kick to the nuts. You can only waste so much time and so many years of your life on experiences like that, you can only get so emotionally invested and have the rug pulled out from under you before you say enough of that. (on his rejected script for Indiana Jones 4)

I like the Raiders. That`s my favorite team.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

I have seen the Raiders develop into what they are today.

When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.

If something is said about the Raiders, I`m ready to go to war.

Everybody from the outside looking at (the Raiders) thought it was a bunch of loony bins over there. Obviously, when it came time to play, he had them very well focused on doing what they had to do. You have to have some talent to do that.

I am very proud with my association with the Oakland Raiders, ... I am very thankful to Mr. (Al) Davis (team owner) for giving me that opportunity to play in 1999.

We`re not defending anything, because we don`t have anything. (This) is a new season, just like 2005 is a new season for the Raiders.

I`m a bit surprised that the Raiders turned to Art Shell to be their new head coach, not because Shell isn`t a good head coach - he had success before as the Raiders` head coach - but because he`s been away from the game so long and the game has changed a lot in those years.

(SULLIVAN - The second half of Sullivan`s doubleheader was with the North County Lady Raiders. The Lady Raiders had the momentum going their way in game one, but) then we seemed to slow down a bit, ... Our serve receive failed us in the last two games.