Brodie Croyle Quotes (30 Quotes)

If we could get into the end zone, if we can do it one time, things could escalate. I don't know what the deal is. We are not doing a good job on offense and that's my fault.

This is the best part of it all. To come and talk to the kids is an honor for me. This may be the only time they get to meet a collegiate athlete, so it is exciting for us to come and tell them to enjoy life. One thing I tell them is never say never and to keep fighting.

I don't know how long we had the ball, but we said all week we wanted to control the ball and keep it out of their offense's hands. And that's what we did. We didn't score as many touchdowns as we wanted to, but what can you say about our defense They're awesome.

I have no clue how the BCS works. If we take care of our business, we'll leave the BCS to everybody else.

At the time, I don't think I wanted to believe it but from everything I've heard this week they said they knew how I could play, they knew how I could throw the ball. They wanted to see how I could be if I took shot after shot. I took a lot of them that game, and I got up from every one of them.

It's on my shoulders. We did not play good at all today. We moved the ball at times, but I'm the quarterback, I'm supposed to be the leader and I threw two picks. That's totally unacceptable.

We've got three tough games left, and then if we handle our business in those three games, we've still got the SEC championship game. We've just got to worry about Mississippi State. They don't have anything to lose. This is their big game.

Obviously, as you say, there's the top three guys that probably go in the top three picks. There's a lot of quarterbacks to be taken after that. Hey, I'm happy to be here. A year ago today, I was still recovering from a knee injury and wondering if I'd have this opportunity. I'm loving every minute of it.

Coming into Alabama, that's what you dream of. Your last game, in the Cotton Bowl, you got two minutes to go score.

That's all we heard since the Auburn game. Everybody wanted to forget about our nine wins to start the season. I don't care what people say about me, but the fact we're going out with the Cotton Bowl championship and a 10-2 record, that shows we've got this program headed in the right direction. That's a great way to go.

I told him it's not the end of the world.

You're playing against the No. 5 team in the country. You have to try to score.

Matt's one of the toughest guys on our team. He never complains about not getting enough reps. When it comes crunch time, he's there.

Our defense is good enough to win the national championship. We just aren't playing up to their standards.

It doesn't matter to me. As soon as I start worrying about who my center is, I'm worrying about the wrong thing.

That's what we're here for. We can't reach our dreams if we don't have confidence in ourselves to get the win.

J.P. made that one bad decision, but other than that I think he had an extremely good day. He got the ball down when he had to, and he's going to be fine.

It really taught me how to appreciate things. I had six months' worth of rehab on my knee his senior year in high school, and you start complaining about that, but then you look over and you've got a buddy over here that's still trying to put the pieces of his life back together. It kind of puts things in perspective for you.

That offensive line y'all have been asking questions about, they showed up. They'd been criticized all camp, saying they're kind of our weak link.

You'd go out to eat somewhere, and people would start yelling the 'Roll Tide' chant.

Anytime you go undefeated in the SEC and then have to play the SEC championship game on top of that, you'd kind of like to think that's enough. All we can do is handle our own business.

Every time I've ever played with him, he's shown up for the game. It seems like at game time he goes to another gear and catches the ball.

That's all we talked about all week, that we could make history.

Just to say we went out 10-2, won our last game and got it going back in the right direction, will make the rest of our lives a lot easier.

We've been saying all week they've got a great defense. If we're going to face a tougher one, we might not want to face them. Their front four was awesome. It's the best front I've played against in college.

To be able to do what they did, no sacks -- I got hit once and that was a late hit -- was amazing.

Growing up there made me anything and everything I am today. The kids who come to the ranch, you could see the hatred in their eyes. And to see them become good people and really love life and realize bad things are going to happen but you can overlook them -- I wouldn't trade that for the world.

This is exactly where we thought we'd be.

It seemed like we'd get something going, then we'd stall out. If you're going to be a good offense, you can't do that. You have to give a lot of credit to our defense, but that's by far the worst practice we've had. It starts with me, so I'll take the blame for it.

We ran the ball ten times better than we have all year and when we do that we don't have to throw it as much. (Our running backs) ran the ball really well. The offensive line came up huge as well and created some big holes.