He was phenomenal. I kept (Curry) in with four fouls and we made a little run and then boom, he's out of the game. No blocks, six fouls, three turnovers, no assists, two-for-seven from the field and his man played with unbelievable energy. |
He was rushing off the mound. He was beating the ball to the plate. ... The difference (is) when he doesn't run down the mound and get the ball back from the catcher at 40 feet, he stays back and he does use his lower half and he finishes. |
He was significantly better this year. And I don't think the injury hurt him because it made him focus so much on the physical training that he was a lot stronger this year. And just working through that adversity made him a better player. |
He wasn't able to get the escape to come away with the win. To control (his first match last Saturday) and all of a sudden have it taken out of your hands. ... I give him credit for coming back and maintaining his composure (against Wade). |
He'll come back when he's ready to come back. I'm not going to give him a time frame. That's not my place. The guy has to be at peace. That's more important than anything that's going on here in Blacksburg. When he gets back, he gets back. |
He's a good football player. He brings the speed element and Jesse brings a good, hard inside runner element. They can make up with what they lose in Troy in those two guys ... it's just a matter of how comfortable they are in the offence. |
He's a great back but I also give a lot of credit to their offensive line. Those guys do a great job of opening up a seam and he does a great job of exploding through it. When he's going north-south, one guy is not going to bring him down. |
Tom Bradley (1917-) |
He's always been bigger than everybody else. That's why, in high school, nobody could tackle him. What he's doing now, it's not surprising to me at all. I knew he was going to be one of those backs who came in and made a big impact for us. |
He's an exaggerated version of the Darryl Kile school of when you lose, you take all the blame. Except Izzy, he takes the blame and then he gets the knives out and starts cutting himself to pieces until you've got all this blood and scabs. |
He's an extremely important part of our offense. Batting in the sixth position in the American League, you've got to be able to put up big numbers. We need a guy behind Hank [Blalock] to knock guys in, and Kevin has the ability to do that. |
He's been in enough big league dugouts and in enough big league games to understand what it takes. And I'm sure this year has gone a long way for him, too. . . . It'll certainly be in the offing down the road, whether it's sooner or later. |
He's been training and skating for 45 minutes. He's been lifting weights and everything. He's had some spinning after that, but even though it's happening, he said they're getting shorter all the time. So he feels like he's getting better. |
He's big. He's athletic. He's strong. He is very smart, so he can handle a lot of multiple responsibilities and he is flexible enough athletically to be able to do a number of things. He can block bigger people. He has a variety of skills. |
He's going to be who the guys look to in the locker room, I think. We're losing a lot of leadership, and leadership is what got us where we went this year. He's one of the guys who I predict will be one of our leaders going into next year. |