Famous Quotes & Sayings

Barry Alvarez

We've had MVPs of three Rose Bowls and they're all running backs. When we win big games, our running backs play well. This one happens to be the most talented one that we've had.

Barry Alvarez

We've had MVPs of three Rose Bowls, and they're all running backs. When we win big games, our running backs play well. This one happens to be the most talented one that we've had.

Bobby Bowden

We've got 119 I-A schools. Out of 119 of us, I'll bet you 100 are fighting an attrition battle. You've probably got 19 lucky teams. Boy, they're lucky. They've kept their offensive line healthy all year, they've kept their running backs healthy, and they're probably playing for Southern Cal and Texas.

We'll know later on tonight, but our backs are strong. We always deal with a lot of controversy and a lot of issues. We tried to overcome it.

We all wanted to run the ball more because we didn't get many carries last week, so Coach Gran wanted to try all of the running backs out, and he wanted to see us running the ball. I thought we all ran the ball good.

Nicholson Baker

Women are much more in touch with the backs of themselves than men are: they can reach higher up on their back, and do so daily to unfasten bras; they can clip and braid their hair; they can keep their rearward blouse-tails smoothly tucked into their skirts.

We felt we could run on them. But after that (fumble recovery), all of our backs started to run a little bit harder.

Chan Gailey

We hit some balls outside deep, we hit some balls inside over the middle, we hit some short passes, we hit backs out of the backfield. We did some things that we have not done in a while, and I give Reggie a great deal of credit for making those reads and getting the ball to the right guys,

Maurice Cheeks

Us coming off back to backs and playing a team that gets out and runs was going to be a challenge for us. I'm not totally upset about this game. We knew it was going to be a tough game just based on the way they play.

You find running backs with one or even two of those qualities. But very few have all four at such a high level as Carl Robinson.

As if Hoosiers' budgets weren't being stretched enough to pay for record gas prices, Mitch Daniels is trying to pile new taxes on the backs of Hoosier motorists. Tripling tolls is not a creative idea and it's not a new idea. It's just a bad idea.

Doan seized upon the opportunity. The ideal situation is when you have a captain who not only takes on the off-ice leadership role seriously as he has, but backs it up each and every night on the ice. And he and our two goaltenders have been our best players all year long. The accountability they have to each other is really something big that is building every week, and it's critical if you are going to have any team success.

Doan seized upon the opportunity, ... The ideal situation is when you have a captain who not only takes on the off-ice leadership role seriously as he has, but backs it up each and every night on the ice. And he and our two goaltenders have been our best players all year long. The accountability they have to each other is really something big that is building every week, and it's critical if you are going to have any team success.

Bill Belichick

Corey joins Kevin Faulk and our other very good backs to deepen an already competitive running back position,

Ronde Barber

There's not a lot of words to describe him. Just put the film on, and you see what you have in this guy. There's a lot of great backs that have come through this league. For him to outdistance them all in the first three games of his career, he should feel good about it. We definitely feel good that he's running for us.

There's no doubt that our backs had plenty of opportunities thus far in the tournament.

There's not the same fear element when you play United these days. In the 90s I must have played them 15 or 16 times and I can't even remember getting a draw. But it's not the same now. We knew there would be times when we had our backs to the wall but winning doesn't surprise us.

The top three backs are out, so that right there is proof that we're gonna need as many as we can possibly have. That's crazy when you think about it, but it can happen very easily because we're gonna run the football, so we just have to build the depth. I think we've really been able to do that this spring.

Eric Williams

I feel like everybody in the whole world's backs are turned to us. One thing I can't stand is when people turn their backs on us.

He's obviously one of the best backs I've seen, but they got some other good players too. I think they're confidence will be high.

I could draft running backs for the next 30 years and I may never draft another Eddie George,

I loved what they did defensively. Offensively, they're bringing in some backs (most notably Rodney Glass of Notre Dame High in Sherman Oaks, Calif.), but I think there is a weakness in only (getting) one offensive lineman so far.

Joe Crede

I'm sure that is something that is in the back of their minds. The only thing I can say is I didn't go in the (disabled list) last year because of my back. It was my finger. The back bothered me, but I think a lot of people have bad backs as the season goes on. I came back from it and finished off the year strong.

I'll be very happy when we have him back. But next week we need all of our running backs to step it up.

Bonnie Raitt

I'm completely thrilled to be a part of this. I have to say, this is the highlight of the summer for me. This is one of a kind and long overdue. It's the best vibe I've ever seen backstage and onstage as well.

If our forward line can put a lot of pressure on Sydney's backs trying to run the ball out, make them turn the ball over and not carry the ball so far and put pressure on them when they try to deliver the ball, then it's our job to get to the fall of the ball and get it going our way again,

If you drive down that road, you know how it backs up.

Michael Bush

I kind of fell short of what I wanted to do. I wanted to have 200 yards in the first game. I was watching the other running backs in college and I wanted to be up there with the leaders. That was a pretty good game for me, though.

I haven't done a good job with those guys. We're not doing a good job of getting off press coverage. We're going to need some freshmen to step up. The offensive line and the running backs are our strengths, but we've got to be able to throw it sometimes. Right now we're not throwing it worth a crap.

I have no clue who our receivers and running backs will be. We really are rebuilding. Most of our top players graduated, so we have all kinds of question marks.

Anne Hull

I grew up in central Florida in the nineteen-sixties, barefoot half the time and running around the orange groves where my father worked. I remember flocks of white birds that would lift from the backs of cattle, disturbed by the jackhammers and bulldozers clearing land for Walt Disney World.

It's guys in there we know who have been through it before, who have worked hard every day for four years. We have each other's backs out there. It's not that we don't know that with the other guys, but you feel it a little more when it's a guy you've been on campus with since Day One.

DeAngelo Williams

It's ideal. It's similar to the spread offense. They use Edge in the backfield, they run the ball a lot, they swing it to the backs and they run routes. I like their offense.