Dan Hawkins Quotes (80 Quotes)

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

Life is not fair. And to approach it as fair, I don't think probably is educationally sound. We talk about controlling what we can control.

I know this there are not a lot of times that I get to sit for 4 or 5 hours by myself and think and write and put some things together, ... so I'll try to make good use of that.

There's a side of me that goes out to him, because I know he's got to answer that question (about beating Boise State), and I know that's not fun. We don't get into (the streak). We never talk about that. That's not part of what we do at all.

We make one of those catches, we probably score and make it 38-7, ... and it's probably on and you're trying to keep it from being 60-7.

We're going to attack. We're going to play football. We came here to play.

The key difference between this and anything we see out there today is it would be grounded and centered in the community.

The bigger we get, I think the more it's changing things, which is great, but we didn't set out to do that. We just wanted to be as big as we possibly could be.

I can't wait to start something up myself that is actually about giving unsigned bands the exposure they deserve, especially when they travel so far to play the smallest gig they've ever played in their lives.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

Ryan's leg started to come around a little bit better at the end of the week. Keating has done a good job in there, and I liked the way he's played. But as Ryan gets healthier, we'll just have to open it up to some competition and see who emerges.

When you can't get the ball in the end zone, you've got to give the fans something.

This is a story for all Americans, not just for those living in rural and inner city communities. And not just for health centers. We are the canary in the coal mine. We are the ones who can point to what's happening.

We're trying not to get caught up in the highs or lows, and trying to focus on the things we can control. Nobody likes losing, especially these guys or coaches, but we understand we've got to play better and cleaner.

Fundamentally we did some good things. We've got something to build on going into the summer we'll continue to get a lot better.

Everyone likes toys when they're a little kid. Somewhere about age 14 or 15, their interest kind of changes to other things -- until they're older and have their own kids.

They'll be, in general, bigger faster and stronger, ... That typically is the case when you play teams particularly from the SEC. Up front is usually where you see a bigger size advantage.

It has been awesome for me (at Boise State)...at the same time, Christopher Columbus set sail once, and everyone said he was crazy. Coach (Petersen) does things the right way and he cares about the kids. That makes it easier for me (to move on).

You've got to give Oregon State a lot of credit. They weren't ahead until the final ticks, and you've got to give them credit for hanging in there.

I can't wait until we get to the stage where we don't have to explain anymore.

It was just a better use of his time really to go and study, and rehab his knee and not worry about being out here and limping through a bunch of stuff.

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

To have a player of his caliber stay is important to our football team. His affection for (CU) and Buffalo football is awesome.

(Riddle) has a tremendous amount of passion for it, ... A lot of guys out there don't want the stigma of being a special teams coach. They see themselves as an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator.

He gets it to the right guy. He finds the guys that are open, gives them the opportunity to catch and run with it. It's going to be difficult to stop these guys.

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

We can watch every team play one game. (But) obviously, I can go to all my kid's games. I can go to as many as I want. That's not only the Bishop Kelly kids but whoever they play,

I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.

There's an opportunity to kind of go, 'OK, we're finally home,' and Portland State, they did a nice job (in a 41-14 season-opening loss) against Oregon State.