Joe Kines Quotes (10 Quotes)

For three years, I've tried to encourage them to play within their personalities. They see life as alive and full speed, and we've tried not to box 'em up.

(Secondary) coach (Chris) Ball is grinning from ear to ear. The main thing today is to find out who can make a play, who can come together.

He doesn't talk much around anybody. Maybe he does when he's not in the (football) building. What he does say, though, matters. You need to listen when he talks.

I thought it was a real solid class. It was a class that met needs. With the package we're playing now (with extra defensive backs), we'll probably load the field with guys who have that kind of ability.

His wife is getting an extra star in heaven, I promise you.

I thought the effort was good today. We were trying to get better as a unit. We haven't played together. The only thing that's going to help us is playing.

We didn't want to give up that touchdown at the end, but they had been scoring about 80 points a game, and to give up 10 ain't too bad.

That's 12 runners and hitters. That's really what we were looking at. Obviously, there were others we were looking at that chose to go elsewhere, but we're really proud of the ones we got. They all have some things in common they all can run, they can strike you and this group's grades are as strong as any we've signed in a long time.

If you go into the game thinking we are going to throw strikes every snap, we could drive ourselves crazy. We could drive our youngsters crazy. They understand what is in front of them.

In high school, he was a great rusher. He's got tremendous athletic ability. We've got to find a place that he can contribute. He's got some ball skills that lend themselves to that position.