Greg Robinson Quotes (51 Quotes)

I've always had a real love for Northwest art and some of the traditions here. Part of the reason I'm so interested in the museum is being able to focus on this region and really understand it.

He has talent and should keep working hard and not look over his shoulder right now, not get worried about what the media and everybody else has to say. It really can help him to improve. Perry can play better than he did.

I'm very excited about (White) coming to be our quarterback coach. I've been very impressed, and I've talked with him about his philosophy, his fundamentals and the teaching progression that a quarterback or a group of quarterbacks goes through. He'll do a fine job in that area.

The biggest issue to me is that we're minus seven (in turnovers) in the last three weeks. You cannot win. That's minus 2.3 per game. By the stats, it tells you that more than 80 percent of the time you're going to lose. I believe it because I've seen it.

It's funny. With this system, when you take what they give you, you never know who it's going to be. Obviously we utilize the tight end in our system. Most West Coast offenses, the tight end is a big, big part.

No. No. No. No, ... I'm not going to do that. If I did that, I'm blaming (starting quarterback Perry Patterson). I'm not going to blame him.

It behooves me. It came in every shape and size. When it rains, it pours. We worked very hard on that all through camp, all through spring. Maybe our emphasis hasn't been strong enough lately. How many times was the ball on the ground Nine times. That's ridiculous. That's bad coaching.

That kids jumps out. He's a monster. Against BC he kind of showed what he can do. He's so much taller than everybody else.

I thought in the second half he didn't have the same confidence he displayed earlier in the game.

People want it to work. I understand that. I understand the frustration of our fans. I understand the frustration of our coaches. I understand the frustration of our players. We all want it to work.

He threatens you in a lot of ways, and he also threatens you in the way he competes. That's the thing we have to emphasize to our team. Don't think at any moment that this guy is done. If he was 6-foot-1, they'd be talking about him as a Heisman candidate.

There's no reason to have to do it. I'd rather keep the pressure on. We won't wait until game day, though, but I don't feel any pressure to do anything right now. It's just a matter of the three guys continuing to work. I want to keep looking.

Making decisions all the time leaves less time to reflect. At the time I'm knee-deep in budgets, so today I just walked . . . through classrooms. I see the faces of the kids to clear my head. It helps them to be visible to me.

Pitt was 1-4 -- and one time was ranked No. 23. They hung in there and now, all of sudden, they won two in a row.

I told him to think about it. Well, (Tuesday) afternoon he and I sat down and talked. He told me, 'Greg, Carol (Vermeil's wife) and I spent a long time (Monday) night talking about it. We believe it is the right thing.

not visibly troubled by the violation of the internees' civil rights.

I liked the way we worked, ... It doesn't matter where you are - in college or in the NFL, it's tough in a bye week. I was pleased with our work, now we'll focus more on Florida State.

Now, my wife has a vote, but I don't know who the other two are, ... I like that, though. I think we're gonna keep getting better.

Give me those numbers again I have a long ways to go. I have great respect for Bobby Bowden and what he's done for college football.

I enjoyed watching her play. She's someone you'd like to beat, but I enjoyed watching her. You could tell when she came in as a freshman that she was going to be one of those players and she seemed to improve dramatically this year.

K.J. (Smith)'s had a very good camp. He had a good spring ball and I like him there (at middle linebacker). I think it's a good position for him.

I give (Hernandez) credit, but I didn't like our tackling either. I thought we were too busy trying to grab instead of tackle.

I think (defensive line coach) Tim Cross made a great statement 'It isn't about if we can play with them, but we need to win,' ... I was informed today that we were underdogs. I was informed of the amount (21 points). I will tell you, in my coaching career, this is the most I've ever heard that I was an underdog in a game other than a basketball game that I did win. Obviously, we have quite a test.

We try to play the game on the practice field. Any time players can feel in a simulated-type atmosphere where it's like a ball game, they like it. Even though it's hard work and it's competitive and all of those things, that's our intent. Fun, or whatever it is, I feel like our players have worked really hard. I think that they've tried to embrace our style of coaching that we've brought.

We took some shots we shouldn't have taken. It wasn't good shot management. We just didn't play very smart, and they made some shots.

I don't think Perry stayed with the read, ... He made a quick decision and went to the flat. He made the wrong decision.

We have a good number of girls out. We have some girls who took a year off and now are back to help the team accomplish goals we have set for the year. We are expecting a good season.

We'll feel that out as the week goes on. Lavar, give him credit, too. He put a lot of time in, and we'd like to reap the benefits just like he would.

I have great respect for Bobby Bowden and what he's done for college football. His teams play with enthusiasm. I've coached Florida State kids (in the NFL) and they believe in their program. It's a very competitive program.

Syracuse never crawled past its own 45 after the 7-7 tie at halftime, finishing with punt, punt, punt, interception, safety, punt and futile desperation heave. As I told our team, it starts with a rookie head coach and it looks like it, ... The game management was poor and that comes right to me.

I think he is just scratching the surface. I think he has a lot of qualities. He's intelligent. He has a lot of qualities that fit what we're looking for at the quarterback position. The quarterback position in our offense is like a point guard in basketball. He has to deliver the mail. He has to make others look better.

He's worked very hard. That's what I've asked him to do. His dream is to go on to pro football. He's learned. It's a process. We want him to be a very consistent back, in pass protection as well as running the football and staying healthy. I'd like to believe the process is in place and that he's going to continue to develop as the year goes on.

He wasn't the most gifted player. But he had to be the most fundamental quarterback. Those are the type of players I think make the best coaches.

I think our (offensive line) is getting better. We gotta get the ball off and be effective in our pass protection. I think our tight ends are doing a good job in pass protection.

We have to worry about getting better. That's the name of the game for us right now. The execution is better. I think (fans are) going to see a more experienced football team than they've seen at this time last year.

I thought we had him. You can see now that he has some special qualities about him. No question about it. All in all, I thought our guys did some great things against him. It was those two big plays that got us.

Perry is a better passer today than he was in November. I know how hard he's worked. March and April have been a lot of fun for him.

There's a lot of disappointment. The place was wild. It was everything we could have asked for. We didn't get it done. It starts with a rookie head coach, and it looks like it. I'd like to think we'd be better than that.

It seems that families today have more activities to do. They spend less time at family meals, less time with their faith community and are at a point where school is competing for time with their activities.

To what level will he be at when he comes in here I don't know that. I know this - he is very diligent about wanting to get started. He's chomping at the bit to try to get us to give him bits and pieces so he can get going.

The reaction from the public has been amazing. A few of us went to eat at Cracker Barrel one night and I still had my Brookshire name tag on. People just kept coming up and saying, 'Thanks for being there.' We didn't even have to pay for our meal.

He's still sore, ... He worked out yesterday and caught some balls on his own going out there with buddies. It's iffy.

I'd like to believe we hurt ourselves more than they hurt us. It was dysfunctional management. We had to use timeouts, we had a delay of game penalty, two personal fouls ... We lost our emotion out there, and it hurt us.

It's just good, clean football. It's a rivalry and all, but there's not that hate or anything like that. But being neighbor counties, we still want to beat them and they want to beat us.

We're well-compensated. But really, we're on the clock all the time.

You've got to give him at least a couple of years, you know, you got to give him at least that. But I think that he'll, I think he'll definitely, I think he'll definitely do a good job.

He worked very hard to adapt to our system and I think that's going to be helpful to him a year from now. We tried to teach players how a pro football player prepares himself, which is different than how a college player prepares.

We're excited that it's a Big East game, and we're excited that it's West Virginia. For 50 years, this game has been going on. These two teams know each other very well.

I've known Dave for a long time. And Dave ain't feeling sorry for me, and I ain't feeling for Dave.

There's a balance you have to have at a school like this.