Fisher DeBerry

Fisher DeBerry
James Fisher DeBerryis a retired American football player and coach. He served as the head football coach at the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 2006, compiling a record of 169–109–1. DeBerry led 17 of his 23 Air Force Falcons squads to winning records and captured 12 bowl game bids. Three times his teams won the Western Athletic Conference title, in 1985, 1995, and 1998. DeBerry retired on December 15, 2006 with the most wins and highest winning...
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This team has sort of had our number the last three years,
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You know what's interesting? There is a much higher percentage of African-Americans at the speed positions than there is in society as a whole. I wonder if that's genetic, or mostly genetic.
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When the challenges come up, it doesn't concern me one bit, because I know it ain't going to go in our favor.
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We just want to win a football game. You got to face reality of where we are. We're playing right now for the pride of the academy, the lightning bolts we proudly wear on the side of our helmets, for a winning season and position in the conference. I don't know anymore that you can play for.
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We had it in our grasp and we let it slip away.
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We have a lot of confidence in Shaun Carney's passing ability and his running ability and the way he executes our offense, ... Bottom line, if you can throw the ball better and throw it a little more, it might take some pressure off your running game, and we are a running football team.
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We have to play for 60 minutes. Adam Fitch gave us a spark, and we made a run at them.
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What was disappointing for our football team was the number of penalties we got. It was very, very uncharacteristic of Falcon football. Penalties will take away your momentum quicker than anything in the world.
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We had some chances to make some big plays,
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We felt Mark was a pretty good tackler but unfortunately he didn't make a lot of things happen as far as getting interceptions and forcing turnovers and things like that,
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We feel like we have some depth in our offensive line and obviously we have two good quarterbacks with game experience. That second unit built some pride. There are a lot of those second-unit guys that could be just as effective as the first-unit guys. We'll continue to use two units like that. What periods of the game we'll use them or when we'll use them, we're not going to say.
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We've been throwing the football. In three out of the four games, we've rushed for over 200 yards and passed for over 200 yards.
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You have to give TCU credit, they're a fine team, ... I'm sorry we weren't more of a competitive team for them today.
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We get on our hands and knees and we wrap our arms around each other and we thank God for the opportunity of having competed that particular day.