Famous Quotes & Sayings

I thought at times we stepped it up and at times we regressed. We are still a growing football team.

I think (the game) is a good idea. There's good football everywhere.

I think the football players, as a whole, have done a great job of representing the institution. They have done well academically and militarily. You take a look at the track record of the program since Paul Johnson has been here, there hasn't been many issues in four years.

Jon Gruden

It is good to know, as a football player, if we get the ball back to our quarterback he can do something with it. He made a great statement today in front of a lot of people.

We've been try to move the football on the ground. It's something we've been trying to get accomplished.

Dom Capers

We're obviously still a work in progress in terms of our pass protection. But I've seen us, at times, do the things that you have to do to win football games on offence. We just have to do it more consistently with our execution.

We're playing way over our heads, ... But that's OK. We did the same thing at Louisville. It's going to make us a better football team in three or four years.

What I like is that I don't have to get pigeonholed into one thing. I don't have to do football pictures, I do landscapes as well, and other stuff.

We feel like he had the leadership skills. He's been very loyal to the program and involved in the youth football program.

Al Davis

We've got to run the football better. We've got to run it with toughness. This guy (Shell) knows what I'm talking about.

Tamba Hali

We've got to prove that we can be a great football team week in and week out.

Joseph Addai

With me, it's just about playing football. I look at it like, when you're a kid, you're just out there playing football. That's what you want to do. Just be out there on the field. Whatever position they put me at, I'll play it.

We support our football team every game. We want them to win because they've got 'Duke' on their jersey so that's like our brother.

Sven Eriksson

We suffered, but we did it together as a real football team.

Maurice Drew

We thought we were better than we really were. We have to come out and know that any given Saturday we can lose. That's how it is. You have to be able to play football with a heart and passion and not underestimate anyone.

We thought we executed a lot better, but we've still got a long way to go. We saw some things in the film room that, if we're playing a rock solid football team, we've got a lot to improve on.

Ron Clarke

To compete, you have to run the football and stop them from running the football. They're a good, quality team, but they are also a beatable team.

Alex Jones

I'm not saying that people shouldn't go out to football games and drink beer and have a good time, I do it myself. But, at the same time, people are so apathetic and that shows me that they don't care about themselves. They have no self-image. Their image is projected to them via the television and that is where they make decisions about who they are according to what the public says they ought to be.

Asante Samuel

It is playoff time, and we had to take it to another level. We just tried to play Patriots football the way it should be played.

I thought we played hard, but sometimes you are just overmatched. They are a good, good, good football team.

I thought Virgil and Bryce had their moments, and I thought that Dodson's performance in the fourth quarter was incredible. He's one of the guys out late from football, and he's one of the first football players to get their legs back.

I think we'll find ways to win. I think we'll be a typical high school football team. That may not be good enough by Skyline standards, but we'll find out.

Kyle Whittingham

I think we've had a good spring. We've progressed, I think, in virtually every area. Spring is all about fundamentals and technique. It's not about out scheming each other offensively or defensively. It's about making every player on your football team better fundamentally and technique-wise ? and I think we've done that.

I think any time you got players who have played as much football as they have, you're going to lean on them quite heavily.

John Toshack

I think it's the right time for me - personally I think football management is about timing and being in the right place at the right time.

I think it's wrong. It's discriminatory. They're penalizing schools that are clean. They can say what they want, but it's been a football issue all along, and now the lesser sports are getting hammered for it.

It gives kids more opportunity to come in and compete. It's a window of opportunity. We've got good football players here and we'll be just fine.

It has been a surprising year. We only have two seniors who are starters. I like the way our team has come together. We got two of our starters hurt in football and but they are back now and it's helped our depth.

Jim Haslett

I think this football team needs to play here. This is where we're practicing, we need to be here.

I think those who think Friday night football will work are in the minority right now.

I think we all have to remember that we could have a university without a football team. A lot of universities don't have football teams. But we can't have a football team without a university. The university will always come first.

It is only going to get better. It seems to be getting better every year and now with the National Football League getting involved, it is going to be a big (boost).

Bob Sanders

I think that sparked something for us. We had been doing it all year, hitting hard, playing tough, playing physical, but I think being on that big Monday Night Football stage and playing a physical team like the Steelers made people notice.