(Having a proven winner returning at quarterback) makes you feel very confident about your offense, ... But the thing that offsets that confidence is the fact that as a coach you're always scared to death that your number one quarterback, who is really outstanding, is going to become injured. Normally, the drop-off to number two is pretty big because they are so good that it's pretty hard for the number two to fill their shoes. |
Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front-it's a powerful picture. |
Every season has its own personality, ... In 2002, internally we felt very good about that team, and the way it turned out was not a total shock. The last two years were a little different, and last year may have been one for the books. It will be an interesting race, and hopefully we'll be right in it ... but certainly, a lot of things can happen between now and September, or now and November. |
Everybody in the country was watching. There were so many different things that took place that made it a special evening. |
He had a good arm, but in their offense, they just didn't throw the ball that much, ... Everything he did was a great surprise to us, I'll put it that way. His first year he proved himself and he got better and better every year. |
He was a tremendous person, a super great guy and a heck of a coach. |
He was the one that didn't give us a touchdown, ... He didn't officiate for us again. |
How can a coach have any influence over a player that's making over five times more than he is? |
I didn't have any idea what happened to Ivory. I assumed he went back to California. |
I don't want our guys to think it's a matter of life and death. I'd hate to think that the game has reached that point. |
I instructed Chuck to call a time out with six second to go. Chuck called it with two seconds left. I nearly had a heart attack. |
I just hope and pray that the person is OK, and I hope that whatever Ivory did was in the line of duty. |
I learned a great many things in the Marines that helped me as a football coach. The Marines train men hard and to do things the right way, just as a football team must train. |
I wanted the players to feel like they were part of a family, to be conscious of that controlled togetherness as they made that slow entrance onto the field. It had a great psychological effect on the opposing team, too. They'd never seen anything like it. |
I'll be here in my home with three big screens, ... I'll be watching three games at a time, and when they're over, I'll look at three more. |