"I thought the first 10 minutes of that third quarter was fairly intense - as intense as any third quarter you can get, given what had already transpired in the first half - and if the boys held up in that first 10 minutes I thought we could win the game."
Eddie McGuire
"It's just deeply satisfying. I'm very happy for the entire club, for all our members who stick by the club. Side-by-side we stick together - we say it and we mean it. This is wonderful. It really is. All the hard work put in by so many people has come together today."
Luke Ball
"It hasn’t been about that (vindication) all year. I’ve got great respect for [St Kilda], from their coach down their whole playing list. It was more about trying to restart a career and it’s amazing how it has all turned out."
Dayne Beams
"The boys have just got such faith in the structures and such faith in one another, it’s just a special feeling. Mick shows great faith in us and we have to repay him when he shows that faith."
Jarryd Blair
"In the last 15 minutes of that last quarter it started to sink in a little bit. It was amazing. It's what you dream of your whole life, and I can't believe it has happened. I was just happy to play senior footy, let alone win a premiership. It's not going to sink in for a long time."
Leigh Brown
"We’ve put in a lot of hard work all year, and that’s what we play footy for. I remember hitting Steele in the back of the head with my teeth (after the siren) and nearly knocking him out. It’s an amazing feeling."
Nathan Brown
"It was a flip side [coming in late last week] but that's footy and you never know how it goes. You never put your head down because things change all the time and you've just got to be prepared for your teammates and that's all I did."
Travis Cloke
"It's seriously just a great feeling to win a premiership. Straight after last week's game we thought we had another opportunity and we wanted to make the most of that one. This feeling is very surreal but at the same time, very exciting."
Chris Dawes
"I’ve got my family around me, and my girlfriend, who is such a strong support, and then in terms of football education I’ve got really capable assistants under Mick, and Mick himself - all of those people have put a lot of time and effort into helping me improve as a player."
Alan Didak
"Last week we got ahead of ourselves and this week we made a conscious effort to just stick to our quarters, try to win the quarter, and even when we were six or seven goals up we just made sure that minute by minute we stuck to our roles."
Tyson Goldsack
"I found out Wednesday that I'd been selected, and that, compared to the week before, was worlds apart. It was pretty hard not to let on I was in the side - I told the family but that was about it. I'm just very happy."
Ben Johnson
"It's an amazing feeling."
Darren Jolly
"We had great belief across the board, anyone who was involved in the club just had great belief throughout the week. We've had an awesome week on the track and we just knew we were going to win this today ... and we bloody did."
Brent Macaffer
"I just remember that final siren going and it being the best feeling of my life, and just getting around all the boys - awesome. Best feeling ever. We had a taste of it last week, and that settled the nerves a bit coming in to this week. Everyone stood up today and that's what won us the premiership."
Nick Maxwell
"It's a massive team effort, it's just guys on the whole list, a lot of guys who have come and gone before us, like Bucks (Nathan Buckley) and Jimmy Clement and Shane Wakelin, and on top of that our coaching staff has been amazing."
Harry O'Brien
"We talked about how we knew we were good enough to win. It was just about having that understanding and the backing of the coaches and the players ... it's just the best thing ever. We had a second chance and I knew the pressure the boys would put on was unbelievable. Everyone played their part."
Scott Pendlebury
"My first feeling out on the ground, I just felt numb. Just looking around on the ground with probably four minutes to go, three minutes to go, knowing that you've won a premiership, something that you've set out to do, something that you've worked so hard for, it's the ultimate feeling."
Ben Reid
"You listen to the older blokes and sometimes in 10 years they don't get the opportunity and I've been lucky enough to be here at a young age. The young boys are definitely going to cherish this."
Heath Shaw
"There are a fair few people in here that made this. In every little way, everyone contributed to this. We go out there and we represent all the fans, all the players, everyone. The 22 selected did their job today."
Steele Sidebottom
"I think it was just an even performance by the whole 22 out there today, and the result we got was unbelievable. To do that lap of honour at the end, with all the crowd, was unreal. I still can't believe how loud it was."
Dane Swan
"Halfway through the last [I knew we'd win]. We knew that if we stuck to our structures we'd win. We had 100 per cent confidence that we'd do the job. We knew all day that it was ours. In the last quarter, looking in my best mates' eyes, and knowing that it was ours."
Dale Thomas
"This really is unbelievable. People who have experienced it before talk about it and I don't think until you've actually been there and done it and got one of these medals around your neck that you can truly understand what they're talking about."
Alan Toovey
"I'm very happy, very, very happy at the moment. When Harry [O'Brien] kicked his goal in the last quarter, I thought that was pretty much it and I knew we were going to have it from then on."
Sharrod Wellingham
"I think I needed to make amends for my performance last week, it wasn’t that crash hot, and I think for us young guys to stand up in a big game like that showed that it doesn’t matter how old you are."
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