Fisher DeBerry Quotes (30 Quotes)

you don't see many minority athletes in our program.

It gave them their own opportunity voluntarily to do it in their own special way, to have their own special thoughts. We respect the decision from the Air Force. Praying is a personal thing anyway.

because he knows if he doesn't practice on Wednesday, he ain't going to start on Saturday. Boy, then he goes out and plays his heart out on Saturday.

I most disappointed in our football team in the number of penalties. That was very uncharacteristic of Falcon football. We had a breakdown in all three areas of the game. We didn't kick the ball very well. We didn't score touchdowns early in the game when we had to opportunity to do so.

It's up to us to go out and play 60 minutes of the kind of football that I think this football team is capable of playing. . . . They've got some great players, but I think we've got some great players, too.

has a zero-tolerance policy for any racial or ethnic discrimination or discrimination of any kind.

The intent is to honor those who have been the most instrumental in a young man being at the academy,

When the challenges come up, it doesn't concern me one bit, because I know it ain't going to go in our favor.

We have to play for 60 minutes. Adam Fitch gave us a spark, and we made a run at them.

He's certainly a tremendous young man and competitor. He has a great attitude and willing to do whatever he can to help the team.

The offensive line has played well. Coach (Pete) Hurt has done a great job with them. To me, the hardest place to learn to play in college football is in the offensive line. A lot of people just think it's pushing and shoving, but it's a lot of skill and a lot of exactness, a lot of technique and a lot of precision. We've done a good job.

He sends them a letter expressing his appreciation to them for their inspiration, guidance and encouragement for him being at the academy. It is not a motivational ploy to try to get our football team excited to play our opponent. If you're not excited about playing Wyoming then you are brain dead.

We get on our hands and knees and we wrap our arms around each other and we thank God for the opportunity of having competed that particular day.

What was disappointing for our football team was the number of penalties we got. It was very, very uncharacteristic of Falcon football. Penalties will take away your momentum quicker than anything in the world.

It's very obvious to me the other day that the other team had a lot more Afro-American players than we did, and they ran a lot faster than we did, ... It just seems to be that way, that Afro-American kids can run very, very well. That doesn't mean that Caucasian kids and other descents can't run, but it's very obvious to me they run extremely well.

You look now, and we've got pretty good balance in what we are doing. I remember when Colorado State had some real good teams up there with (former Rams quarterback Moses) Moreno and all those guys. There wasn't 10 yards difference between their rushing and passing. It really makes it tough on a defense to prepare for that kind of balance from an offensive team, so I hope this will be a problem for Wyoming.

We prepared very well and I thought our guys were ready to play, ... Obviously, TCU was ready to play and they played a fine football game.

Your opponent has a lot to do with that. We knew we were playing a good team. I told my wife before I left home that we were more ready to play than we've been in a long time.

We felt like we had some young players that were developing at the free safety position that might have a little bit more range and might give us the potential to get more interceptions back there. That's the main reason.

This team has sort of had our number the last three years,

We also understand that standards have to be maintained. We have to move on with our preparations for this season, but we'll do all we can to help Marcus continue his education at another school.

Our team stayed in a little truck stop up there once and in the restaurant there, you could have your food prepared two ways fried or deep-fried.

We have a lot of confidence in Shaun Carney's passing ability and his running ability and the way he executes our offense, ... Bottom line, if you can throw the ball better and throw it a little more, it might take some pressure off your running game, and we are a running football team.

I'm very pleased to get the monkey off our back, ... Our fullback played an outstanding game, and I thought we played with passion and emotion all day.

It's obvious we didn't tackle very well. We were in position all night to make plays and we couldn't tackle.

We felt Mark was a pretty good tackler but unfortunately he didn't make a lot of things happen as far as getting interceptions and forcing turnovers and things like that,

I thought we did a good job against Kyle Bell the first half. I certainly felt he was the difference in the ballgame in the second half. That's the first time our football team has got knocked off the ball this year. We certainly got knocked off the line of scrimmage in the second half by their offensive line.

I want everyone to understand that I never intended to offend anyone.

You have to give TCU credit, they're a fine team, ... I'm sorry we weren't more of a competitive team for them today.

I'm not going to answer that until I evaluate the film. He certainly did a great job of rallying our football team.