By MIKE LOPRESTI
Gannett News Service

SAN DIEGO - What they're saying at the Super Bowl.

"He should stop talking like he's the smartest guy in football. He's talking nuclear this, nuclear that. All he has to remember is 'Hut, hut' and go chase the ball ... Some guys get full of themselves and I think you guys have Simeon a little full right now."

- Oakland guard Frank Middleton about Tampa Bay defensive end Simeon Rice

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"I told my brother as we walked out of Madison Square Garden, 'we're going to a graveyard.' Then when I got there, I thought it was a third world country."

- Warren Sapp, about the night he was drafted by the then-lowly Bucs

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"Win a championship, have a couple of babies. I don't know too many people who can say they've done that."

- Oakland's Tim Brown, whose wife is expecting twins any day

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"I'm just going to go home and not leave the house for two or three weeks. I'll just stay in my pajamas. If I get a phone call, then I get a phone call. If I don't, I've had a good life."

- Oakland's Rod Woodson on his postseason plans, and whether the Raiders will resign him

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"I'll tell you right now, Sapp talks too damn much. That's who we are. That doesn't mean anything."

- Tampa Bay's Keyshawn Johnson

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"I played one year on the same team as him when I was nine and he was 12. He was the pitcher and it was the bottom of the last inning with the bases loaded. They hit a ground ball to me and it went between my legs and he yelled at me a little bit and made me cry. He didn't like to lose. None of us liked to lose."

- Tampa Bay assistant coach Jay Gruden about brother Jon

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