Brian White Quotes (40 Quotes)

We're young, with not much varsity experience and not very deep, so I have to be realistic but we've given good effort, which is where you always want to start.

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

The players in this program are just amazing people. Now, we've got to continue to go out and play and believe in one another.

The township did a study of its own prior to opening station 2. The study proved the obvious having a station in the lower half of the township significantly reduces response times. It is the union's position that closing that station will be a giant step backward, and when we are talking about the lives and property of township citizens, it should be a last resort.

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

He's been as enjoyable a player as I've had the privilege to coach, just from a standpoint of personality, accountability and certainly performance. He's just one of those really special people.

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

It's very unusual. It's an allegory, basically. There are a lot of layers of meaning. It's a story about living and being a human being.

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

We are definitely younger in that position than anywhere else on the team. But the way they have been practicing, this will be a strength for us, along with attack.

What I hope to change, and what I believe will happen, is the execution will be better one extra year into what we're trying to get achieved. That should be significant. We do have a solid foundation, but when you implement a new offense, particularly one that is as intricate and complicated as the West Coast offense, it takes time. You will see tremendous strides and progress from year one to year two.

One of the things that impressed me the most was his leadership. That's one of the things I'm trying to take over with the spot up in the air is becoming a more vocal leader as opposed to in the past where I've tried to lead more by example.

Do you know why there's so much air in potato chip bags

I think there is a correlation if you have a whole team of guys who can't process information,

I know the benefits of being up in the press box. You see an awful lot more and it's not as chaotic. But the emotion of the game, it's real and you get to look eyeball to eyeball with your players and you get to share the emotion of the game. You get to communicate when there's adversity and you help them through it. I had a blast today.

They had people fit in the right spots. They did a nice job of game planning the run against us. They were going to make sure our quarterback and our receivers were going to beat them today and our quarterback and receivers did.

That showed what a great organization we had and being part of a plan is all about. Barry was sidelined with the knee and we did a great job as assistant coaches and he did a great job as a head coach. The players - everyone bought into the plan.

The board instructed us to contact the various interested parties comprised of the labor organizations, county retiree organizations and others and solicit from them ideas as to what can be done to ensure the viability of these ancillary benefits.

He took advantage of that (year off) and changed his body. He's a much different guy.

And that would be White's response to the lack of big runs in Calhoun's portfolio, so far. Keep banging away. It's only a matter of time, ... He'll have plenty of 40-plus yards runs on the record by the end of the year. I know he's anxious to get some, and he will. It's a function of persistence, holding to the integrity of the landmarks, trusting your speed, and maybe somebody holding a block downfield for a split second longer. It will happen.

I'm always very cautious in comparing backs to other players, because I believe each person has their own independent personality. I don't want to say he's Reggie Bush, because he isn't. He's Brian Calhoun. And I wouldn't trade him for Reggie Bush.

I think what it can do for you is center you on the values your team has and make sure you appreciate and honor those values - and consistently honor them,

We've run that play, some version of it, close to 40 times this year,

I just thought he was really composed the whole day,

Upper Arlington is the real deal. They have a strong offense. They're only getting better as the season goes on. They're coming off a win against Thomas Worthington, which is supposed to be much-improved, and they blew them out. We know that they are going to come into this game with a lot of confidence. They lost to us the last two years in a row, and I know that they are going to be highly motivated.

When you think you've seen everything in college football you haven't. This finish is as incredible, unpredictable and as unfathomable as they come.

Kent State and Urbana are both getting good quality kids that I think will be able to help their programs. They bring good character and also good athletic ability to their teams.

You turn on the film and the No. 1 player you're going to game-plan around is Brian Calhoun. He's the No. 1 player that we game-plan around (offensively). So, conversely, as a defensive coach, you're going to spend a lot of energy in trying to contain, throttle, and frustrate Calhoun, while forcing other players to beat you. If I'm coaching against us, the first thing I'm going to do is figure out a way to contain Brian because he can change a game, and change it fast.

For various reasons and excuses we were missing a lot of players and won this game with a lot of young kids on the field. It's a good feeling.

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.

He's got personality on the field that people respond to. I believe Bernie definitely has raised the awareness of how important the position is. We need to be productive at that position.

I think Brian learned a valuable lesson last week. He was frustrated and I told him, 'They're going to make us beat them by throwing the football, so you need to take that as a compliment.' That doesn't mean you surrender. You keep playing because it's going to be a game where you earn every one of your yards. Games like this are games of persistence, games of trusting yourself, and knowing it's not going to look pretty all the time, but you have to keep banging away.

I saw Chris as a big, physical back. Obviously, the people in high school had a hard time tackling him. He had good speed, not great speed. (We) wanted to give him a shot (at tailback) and see if lightning would strike twice.

I thought it was very significant for us as a team to know we have answers outside of handing the ball to Brian Calhoun 40 times.

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally),

This whole thing came on when I was 37. Up to there I lived a normal life.

Our family has had a very difficult week, as we've tried to come to terms with the enormity of the loss of both Steve and Lauren.

It would be way premature to suggest any particular store in any particular community.

He's an incredibly gifted athlete who didn't really take a lot of major hits. I think he's got an innate, sixth sense of how to avoid getting full-body contact collisions.

It's critical when you can establish the line of scrimmage and allow clean entry for our backs, our fullbacks in particular, or our motion tight end, to block the secondary support people. It makes all the difference in the world. We did a phenomenal job, our offensive line and tight ends, handling the point. It showed.