Chris Hatcher Quotes (10 Quotes)

It was good to see us get the block. We practice that all the time. It was really nice to see us finally get back there.

We've won four conference titles in the last five years, so we've always had that target on our back. We know we have to show up and play the best we can each week. We just hope our best is better than everybody else's, and if that's the case we'll be successful.

Right now, Wilkes is the No. 1, ... We're at the midway point of camp, and it looks like he will be the starter going into the first ballgame.

I thought we dominated pretty much the whole game except for two plays in the second quarter, ... I really didn't say much (in the locker room), just to take it one play at a time. It felt like we were winning the ballgame. We played well in the first half, and being down was kind of hard to swallow.

We went into the game expecting to win. We feel like we play in a very difficult conference, and that our regional play is among the best in the country. So we were pretty much ready for just about everyone.

If the kids find them funny, they seem to remember them better. That goes a long ways in teaching people what you want them to do.

No two teams are ever the same. It's just the start of a new season. And as a coach, if you don't look forward to the start of a new season then you're in the wrong business.

We've been in the title hunt before, but last season we just happened to finish it off, ... Our attitudes as coaches and as a team haven't changed since 2002. We're still the national champions until Aug. 27, and then we become the defending national champions. And hopefully if we play well throughout the course of the season, we'll get a chance to play in Florence on national TV once again.

I thought he did really well. He didn't get to play last week. (Saturday) he came back and ran the offense extremely well.

He's a competitor, and he played well. We've got two good (quarterbacks), and both of them deserve to play, but you can only play one at a time at that position.