Quotes about haywood (15 Quotes)


    He has a difficult task on his hands as far as carrying a team but not just carrying it by scoring, ... It's night in, night out making the next guy better, making the guy who is supposedly average, making him better than average. Gilbert can score. The next task will be getting Brendan Haywood, Jarvis Hayes, even Jamison, easy shots. Make the game come easy to those guys and make them step the level of their games up. I feel that's the next step for him.

    We know we're short on pieces, ... We're trying to hold down the fort. Actually, this is beyond trying to hold down the fort because this is probably, really, who we've got. We're talented enough to win some games. As long as we have Gil and Larry and some bigs Brendan Haywood, Brown, Thomas, Michael Ruffin we have some hope.

    I think Darius, along with (offensive coordinator Michael) Haywood have been working all year long to make it where we can put him on the field for all three downs.

    We are very excited about him. You wonder about the learning curve because they throw a lot of defenses at you, but he is focused in there. (Offensive line coach Steve Haywood) has done a good job helping him learn things and I think that has helped him get considerable playing time with that first group.

    Haywood Community College is located in the most mountainous county east of the Mississippi, with two national forests and two national parks at our doorstep and owns two forests that we use for outdoor classrooms.


    It's hard to make an incubator that worked. The concept sounds good, but I don't think Haywood County is a big enough place to do it. I don't see there has been any progress as far as incubating new businesses.

    I'm just trying to find ways to get all our guys involved and pick up a win - it doesn't matter if I score. By halftime, Haywood was getting the best of us, but we turned it around and we had guys make some great plays.

    I think the building needs to be used for economic development and I don't think Smoky Mountain Development has been able to accomplish that. They need that off their plate. It is in Haywood County so let Haywood County take it and make something out of it.

    We executed to perfection in the first quarter. We played a box in one on (Donnie) Haywood and held him to two points and we had very few turnovers. At the end of the quarter, I looked up at the scoreboard and we were behind by two.

    I will seek anyone's endorsement and appreciate any vote I get, and I told the legion group that, but I didn't want to accept any of their money as part of my campaign. I wanted to run my own campaign for all the people of Haywood County, not any special interest group or special person. Their issues are their issues. My issues are part of my campaign.

    With Brendan Haywood back there, we did a good job at the rim, ... What I want is for us to do a better job of cutting off penetration. We were able to get a lot of steals playing the passing lanes and that's good, but we can't allow guys to just blow by us and get into the paint. That's where we were hurt a lot of times defensively.

    I had a call from Hoover's coach, Haywood Boston, today. He said he was very happy we were in the championship, and our kids needed to know that. We support one another.


    Haywood Builders, Danny Wingate and their sales staff and everybody associated with that company has been nothing but upright and professional. Everything about the company is top notch. This community couldn't survive without them.

    We're going into this game thinking worst-case scenario that Christen doesn't play. We go into the week like every week preparing our kids the best we can for whoever is on the field. I'd like to think that we're not a one-man team. There are a lot of people out there who do think that Hilliard Davidson will go as Christen Haywood goes, but our kids have a lot of pride and they'll do a good job in preparing themselves no matter who's playing.



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