Jarvis Herring Quotes (18 Quotes)

Any time you take a big player out of your offense and two out of your defense, you wonder and dream how much better you could have been. But we're not going to dwell on it.

It cost us a couple games early, but then guys started fighting for each other. We could have had a lot better season.

I don't know what kind of Florida Gator team you're going to see, but it's going to be crazy. No one is in trouble. Everyone is ready to go.

We were not responsible. We were just crazy. Crazy kids. They really didn't care about the game. ... Nobody was embarrassed after the game.

The smallest teams didn't fear us the last three years. FAMU even said something about beating us one time, so you know it's bad. We were a laughingstock.

At that time, I don't think it was humbling at all. Like I said, guys didn't care. You didn't care if you got whipped. Nobody was embarrassed after the game. It wasn't anything. Guys were just ready to get it over with, go home and start a new year.

We talk about it a lot. It has been a rough road. But if we end up with at least a 10-win season, it will have been worth it.

We're taking them seriously. Everybody on the team has a different attitude. The way guys work. The way guys hang out together.

We're really torn apart. Foley basically just ripped the heart out of the team. He kept saying it was all about the team, all about the team. No, it's not about the team. It's really about the damn boosters and the fans.

You knew it hurt him, but you could never tell a difference. Vernell is not a guy who really gets down. He's a fighter.

We're just like the media. We gossip about things, and we always wondered what kind of receiver or tight end he would be. He's been great.

It hurt us earlier in the season. Later this season guys started getting rid of the (selfish) attitude and started fighting for each other.

I just remember they whipped our behinds. I knew it was going to happen before the game even started. I think most guys did, too. A lot of guys didn't care. They thought, 'Oh, we're just playing Iowa.' It felt like they didn't deserve to be here anyway.

When he got hurt, I was devastated. I played in a daze for awhile. But when he came out of the tunnel on crutches and started cheering for us, it snapped me out of it. That's how much he means.

He's been hungry since he first stepped foot here. He's a playmaker. You just look at some people and say, 'Hey, this guy's going to be a playmaker.' Just by practice you can tell. He's doing the same thing (in games).

Parents play a big role and they don't want their child to come into an unstable situation and unstable program.

We were down in the hole, and they were riding high a little bit. I guess they overlooked us.

That really hurt us. We knew we were going to get a lot of pressure (on the quarterback) from Ray. Everyone knew how quick his jump off the ball was. When he went down it was like, boy, now we've got to find somebody else to get that pressure. Ray was one of the best. That was a big loss.