Bobby Johnson Quotes (42 Quotes)

I'm going to work as hard as I can, our staff is going to work as hard as they can, ... We'll take suggestions. The people who call you idiots and all that stuff, that's not going to make me change anything. They can do that all they want because it's not going to affect the way we go about doing our jobs.

You've got to know that you're going to see those kinds of teams every week in the SEC and see those kinds of athletes. To execute is certainly at a premium, and you've got to be able to do that. I don't think we have anything to be ashamed about, losing to LSU and Georgia. We just have to make sure that we play better.

I would expect a rotation. They're both very capable.

We ran the ball well at times, ... Obviously, we threw the ball extremely well. If we can continue to do that and get a little more balance, I'll be very, very pleased.

We're going to miss him in more ways than one. We will miss him as a player and our guys will miss him as a teammate more than anything else.

They have assured me that our players were doing the right thing. There will be no sanctions from the university on them,

We had chances to win all three of those games, to tell you the truth. But unless you're just playing extremely well and hitting on all cylinders, it's tough to win those games against those high-powered teams.

I tell our players all the time that we have to battle every time we go out on the field to have a chance to win, ... That was the case today.

we tried to make sure our practices ended in a positive, quick mode.

I think it's a very high honor for Jay, but Jay will be the first one to tell you it's preseason. I know it's a cliche, but he's that kind of guy. He doesn't care about it. He wants us to win, and Jay came back to Vanderbilt to help us win.

I'm disappointed because I felt like we were going to have a good chance to go for two and be successful and try to win the football game, and we didn't get that opportunity,

He could have gone out to the NFL, probably got himself some money, and he wouldn't have to worry about Vanderbilt's win-loss record,

It's just hard to be consistent when you're moving guys from position to position. We'll have to see who's going to be available next week.

I think about Mom and how she'd keep us entertained with her sense of humor during Dad's deployments in Vietnam. Whatever came her way, she had a joyous spirit.

Big. Big, ... We were just starting to blossom with that concept of having Steven in there. We've had visions of some bigger and better things with him. That's going to hurt us.

All interceptions are critical. You never want to turn the ball over, obviously, but that to give them an opportunity like that was too big of a gift.

I think our guys did the right thing and they were doing nothing wrong.

He matured along with our offense and he knows it really well, ... He knows the game plan almost as well as the coaches do every week.

I've quit trying to interpret that rule because I've seen a lot of things before that were excessive and weren't called, ... I obviously do not know the rule. We had no warning about excessive celebration. They did not tell me we had been doing that before and to watch it. I don't know why that particular incident was penalized.

The seasonally slow business trend we typically experience in the first quarter was mitigated by increased sales of our newly introduced products, as well as improved productivity of our recent sales force additions.

They know SEC football, and they read about it all the time. They grow up with it. They know about it and want to play it.

We were 30 miles from the Georgia line, so we were over there all the time, ... It was the same thing at Furman. We had more Georgia players than from anywhere else.

When you think of great college football programs, Michigan is one of the first you consider.

I can't tell you enough about Jay Cutler. He has got size, he has got strength, arm strength. He can run. He knows what our offense is trying to achieve every time he goes out on the field. I don't know what else you can want in a quarterback. It would have been very easy for him to go into the NFL and leave Vanderbilt behind.

You prepared all week for this and then you lost that opportunity forever,

We still have a great opportunity. I don't think our guys are going to let that pass by without putting in the effort. I have no fear at all that they won't come out and work.

I don't know who in the world voted in instant replay, ... But it about stopped my heart.

We try to talk to our team all the time about making good decisions, about who they're going to be around, where they are and what they're doing. Sometimes you can't account for who approaches you or who comes where you are.

You know that's going to be a problem. We tried to do the best we could, and probably pressured him more than we thought we would, just trying to keep him in the pocket. He's a good player, and that's why he's playing quarterback for Georgia.

I think they're ready to go, ... We have a good choice of two punters.

Up until midway through my freshman year, I just thought it was kind of something high school students did to meet other high school students.

Everything we've been working on, we've had Wake in mind. This is just now a concerted effort to narrow it down.

We hope we are smarter than that, ... That's one thing about Vanderbilt you got some pretty smart guys over here.

To tell you the truth, we're sort of similar to Wake Forest,

We're trying to give them all of the moral support we can,

He's really timid, but the main thing this class is doing is building his confidence, ... Now he's taking control.

He was exactly right. He bettered us, he bettered his draft position and had a lot of fun doing it.

I'm tired of talking about what might have been. We've got to seize those moments or potential moments and play as well as we can. If we play as well as we can and Georgia still beats us, you can live with that. When you drop balls and don't do the things you're capable of doing, that's what is frustrating.

He made some athletic plays out there today, ... You have to get that thing fully rehabilitated before you can take a blow. Or give one.

Fortunately, we haven't had many serious ones. (Offensive lineman) Mac Pyle we don't know if he's going to come back or not. That's a serious injury, but we may be fortunate and get him back.

It might have hurt us in recruiting that first year. A lot of schools were using it against us, saying we didn't have an athletic department, saying we were going to intramurals.

I have consulted with the University officials, and they have been investigating it more than anybody. They have assured me that our players were doing the right things and there will be no sanctions from the university,