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We believe Devin would be better served by staying in school and finishing his degree and becoming more proficient as a football player. But we respect his decision.

Sir Clive has been a world class coach in a different sport...but at the end of the day I think with any football club it's a team.

We were fortunate tonight in that he was in foul trouble. He's a good player and he's much stronger than anyone we've got. My only regret is that he went to a high school that doesn't have a football program.

That's a major disappointment when we have a tailback rush for 250 yards and lose the football game.

I saw how they went out and how happy they were. I spoke with Jim a couple of times and he just said, 'don't let this opportunity get past, this is your last year, possibly could be my last year playing football,' so I just want to go out on top.

I expect the team to improve throughout the season. There's lots of football, lots of time for me to get better.

Riding on a bus with a bunch of girls is a new experience. It's a big change from football. Football buses are a little more serious, a little edgy - especially on the way to games. On a football trip, I couldn't care less about talking to anyone.

Well, the guy's had open-heart surgery, ... He laid on that table and had them cut him open. And everything else. And he's here playing football. That says something. You give the guy the benefit of the doubt that, hey, he's tough enough to do this.

Sometimes it's a little challenging to understand what was on the minds of some of the players. Between the two state schools, there's been a lot of positive things going on with the football programs here. I have to wonder, why players would have to look so far elsewhere to find what they're looking for

When I'm looking for a quarterback, the first thing I look for is the ability to throw the football. That's something that most people take as a given, but it's something you've got to have. From the film I saw on Matthew, he makes every throw you can ask a guy to make.

It's a reward not only for an exceptional football player but when you win it for three years it means you dedicate your life to football.

We had lot of peaks and valleys. We've been fairly consistent. It's a credit to our coaches and the football team to step it up. We're in a prime position that a lot of people didn't think we would be in.

It's almost like a pancake, about a football field long, ... Right where there was a wharf there is water now.

I don't know if we (the defense) have any expectations. We just want to go out there, play our defense, play hard and play sound football. I don't think there are expectations. That's for you guys (the media). That's not for us. We just go out there and do what we do.

I've got to do my work here, just like I did last night in Greeneville, running the football stadium to stay ready. Not only do I owe it to myself, but I owe it to the organization to stay ready now that we're back in (the playoff chase).

Because he came back from a knee reconstruction this year and before that missed so much football, some people have forgotten just how dominant Matt was as a footballer,

I consider myself a basketball player who plays football.

Personally, I felt a lot of fingers were being pointed at me for the failures of Cleveland. They chose to label me as the problem, as what was wrong with Cleveland Browns football.

Just being around him when we were growing up, Vestal football was such a big part of our life from the time I can remember,

Pretty much how to play the game of football. The game up here is different. Route running and being more professional in what you do. Being more professional like taking care of your body. I learned a lot of stuff from being up here in my first year. A lot of stuff that I can take into the off-season.

I've messed myself up more playing music than when I played football.

I'm supposed to take care of the football. I was upset that it happened.

I just basically talked to him about what we're doing and made sure he wanted to still be around for this stage of rebuilding. We just talked football. Just cleared the decks. I wanted to tell him what's going on and make sure he was comfortable with it all. We didn't even begin to talk numbers, but there was no hesitation on his part.

That win was huge. Not only for the football program, but for the entire school and our community.

They embrace this challenge, ... It will be fun to be in that setting. It's one of the great places to play in college football, and it will be a great experience for our guys.

It will be important for us to run the ball well. We need to make sure that what we're doing offensively matches who we are, and that means, to a degree, running the football.

I think that everybody on the football team has a lot of confidence in him. He's playing well, but it's not something new that he is doing now that he didn't do before. He is getting more of an opportunity now.

Washington is a lot like we are. They like to run the football and they like to blitz a lot on defense. I know Coach (Joe) Slocum will have his kids ready to play. We are hoping to build on the momentum we gained last week.

Ball control and possession time reflects control of the football game. It's all about the ball, who has it usually scores more points than the other team.

Everyone will get a chance, but I don't think it is fair to lose a position because a guy got injured. It will be competitive. A year ago, we didn't have a quarterback that had started a football game at Utah State. Now, we have two quarterbacks that have won a football game at Utah State. That is the type of competition we want at all positions.

We just need more kids to come out. For football, kids started coming out more and more when we started winning games. Since basketball hasn't won a lot of games, no one decided to come out. Maybe more people would come out if we won.

I'm 34 now and still can play and feel really good. That's why you move around and that's why my family has gone with me. I thank them all the time for letting me take my opportunity to play football.

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It's always good to be home. This is a business trip. Any kid that plays football would appreciate playing the sport in the town where he grew up.

I think we can run and get to the football. Last year five of the seven games we lost we were ahead. The defense has to stop people and keep teams out of the end zone.

I like his size and the way he runs the football. I thought he did a nice job of catching the football and I thought he was good in blitz pickup, recognizing people coming. Before he went to Miami, I thought he was a heck of a running back and he was in a numbers situation down there and his number was out. He is a good football player.

With football, it's the unknown right now. It's like there's that last missing block. Kind of like, 'What if Make it Not make it' I need to answer that question.

Our team has practiced well and is showing the ability to put everything on the back burner for two hours and practice a little football.

Football is a fertility festival. Eleven sperm trying to get into the egg. I feel sorry for the goalkeeper.

One can have a 10-year-old tumor languishing in one's prostate and pass a physical with flying colors. I know. It happened to me time and again, every fall, as I had my physical for college football. And again in 1969, when I passed my pre-induction physical for the military.

We've gone down there and failed dismally last year in a pretty hostile environment. So with that year's experience you'd like to think we go down there pretty hungry and we can win some football and make it a good, hard match.

We wanted to get the kids to love the sport of football. Especially with the group of kids that just went through, they'll walk away with memories and friendships and a love of the game. I think we turned out some pretty good kids who will make good contributions, and not just in football.

Keep in mind that we are only halfway through the season, and there remains a lot of football yet to be played, ... So it's impossible to address the dozens of hypothetical situations with the BCS standings.

It is important for me to have four or five more years in football.

It ended up working out that way. I enjoyed my time at Maine, but it wasn't what I was looking for in a college atmosphere, or really a football atmosphere. I just felt I owed it to myself to take that next step and try to keep going.

I think we can only benefit. The world of football does not feel he was a failure in Madrid, but I know the animal we're dealing with and he still feels he's got a point to prove.

There is no doubt that he is going to run the ball hard. He dropped the ball a couple of times, but that usually happens when he's struggling for extra yards. I'm pleased with the effort for sure but we just have to hold on to the football.

Our manager is always worried that Nicky will injure himself at football. But I don't really mind because there were only 4 members in The Beatles.

Skiing is primarily a recreational sport in this country. Football, you have all these teammates, the pressures, the rivalry, 80,000 people screaming, the motion, that thrill. I can't find that in skiing.

I love playing here, ... I played in a dome in college. I played inside in Arena Football. I've played in the dome here. I just love playing inside. It's my element. It's what I'm comfortable with. ... It was great to get back in here. If we play this way at home, we're going to be a very, very tough team to beat.