David Patten Quotes (12 Quotes)

He knows the magnifying glass is on him right now. We have to be very supportive of him right now. There is a lot of pressure on him. He needs to make those throws.

He said, 'Here we go,' ... He said we have to go down and win the game here. He just has such a tremendous amount of confidence and it revs us up. If you look in his eyes and hear him talk, you think, 'We have to go out and get it done for this kid.'

It's been extremely frustrating, extremely frustrating, especially when you know you've been brought in to make plays and make things happen,

The thing about it now is the games don't count. We've got two weeks to fix the problem. The thing I observed tonight after the picks, after the bad plays, he was still upbeat, he still took charge in the huddle.

It was straight-up luck, ... just threw his arms up and he hit the ball. He just happened to be Johnny on the spot. It was a well-executed play. I came scot-free across the middle. We won three games like that, and sometimes those games go the other way.

We have to realize that is a business decision and the direction the university wants to go, and we have to deal with it.

He has this ability to sit back there with all this commotion going on and just stay focused. I'm not talking about focusing on one guy. He spreads it around. He's going to hit the open guy. You can't defend that.

I don't control where the quarterback goes with the ball or when my play is called, so the bottom line is being positive and focusing on the team aspect and I've been conditioned over my nine years to do that. But it's extremely frustrating I'd be lying if I told you anything otherwise. But its just the way it is. It's the nature of the beast, and that's what shows a great team when you have guys who can acknowledge that, accept that, and deal with what they are dealt with.

Hopefully, that's the start of good things to come, ... I expect to have my best performances here in Washington. I feel like they're going to give me an opportunity to go out there and be a difference maker, and that's a step in the right direction.

I was telling the guys that I felt like a rookie all over again, ... It's just a whole new atmosphere. It seemed like in New England everything had become normal, because we're just expected to win. And this is a whole new challenge -- getting this team off on the right note -- and just to be a part of that is exciting.

So when you have all that attention focused on one guy, then the other guys have to step up around him and a day like Sunday when they're doing that to Moss, for me to come away with one catch is extremely frustrating. But a lot of things are out of my control. This is something we have to capitalize off of as an offense. If they're going to come in and take Santana away, then everybody around him has got to step up and get things done.

It was after one my best runs. When I reached my home I started shaking and got the cold chills. My wife took me to the hospital and I found out I had a heart attack.