Mike Bellotti Quotes (29 Quotes)

He doesn't go down, he doesn't give up. He doesn't believe anybody can tackle him. ... You've got to gang-tackle him and you've got to hang on.

I'm not saying we're not trying to get the big names, but we worry less about the name-recognition value or the number of stars behind a name. We look at films, and we look at people that can fit into what we're doing. These guys, offensively and defensively, will fit into the scheme of what we perceive we need to do in the future to be successful.

We do physical exercises where he can gauge a little bit their physical toughness and their leadership and their commitment to it, but (now) he gets to coach real football. That's what's exciting.

A lot of draft-day geniuses erupted.

He's a prankster, a practical joker to the max. ... He created a lot of funny stuff, stuff we still laugh about.

The main emphasis point will be to evaluate newcomers and the second-line guys that we're looking to go in if somebody gets hurt.

They're arguably one of the best offensive lines, not just in the nation, but in the history of college football.

I didn't quite understand the Notre Dame deal. But obviously I have not been a student of the BCS.

Last year I changed our vision of what we were going to recruit in preparation of what I knew we were going to do. That's why we didn't take a quarterback last year. The guys that we could have taken would have have fit into this mobility scheme that we have. And these guys, they fit that.

People were viewing him as the savior, as the guy who's going to take care of everybody. I felt the pressure as his coach. Everyone is counting on him.

That's a practice order. We begin spring and fall practice based on last year. Every day and every week they will be evaluated, and that practice order might change.

There are a lot of seniors and, as I've said before, those seniors are coming to the forefront because they are also our performers and our contributors. Their voice, their word, carries more weight because they are also doing it on the field.

A couple of times he's made runs that brought our entire team to its feet.

But I do think overall they are probably more creative in finding ways to win and supporting each other -- offense, defense and special teams. It's a balanced football team because we can look a lot of places for people who will win this game.

Jackie, having played two years in the program, needs to step up and I think he's ready to do that.

The one thing they could tell me they could hang their hat on was, they had never fired a coach. They had always let him finish out his contract. It's very interesting that the next coach they hired, they didn't allow that to happen.

We are doing a little bit of old Oregon Duck football, a little bit of Utah, Bowling Green, Northwestern, a little bit of BYU, Texas Tech passing game from years past, and rolled it all into something we are calling the new Oregon offense. It is something that has been bits and pieces that has been on my desk for about 212 years now, and now I kick myself because I think I should have done it sooner.

Dennis has been the starter the entire time, and he is the starter. We have just tended to play our backup more than other people are maybe comfortable with doing. I don't know that that's going to change.

He has that inner strength, a reservoir of determination inside. He has very strong faith and sees it as just another trial he has to face.

It's nice to climb back in this Pac-10 race.

When you have three weeks to prepare, you draw some things up in the dirt. Unfortunately, in the end, they were just better than we were.

We're down to barely a two deep.

I think it was a wakeup call. I've said for a couple of years, oftentimes I got the impression some kids that come here felt just by putting on the uniform we were going to win games.

I think that we've probably, more than any other time than I've been here, addressed specific position needs.

What they did in the second half was run more laterally, created some gaps. And some of their biggest plays came when we stuffed it inside at the point of attack and then they reversed it. We didn't quite stay alive as much as we talked about.

Two years ago, I considered going to this offense, and I kind of kicked myself for not (doing it).

He's just a fairly natural athlete. I'm actually the most pleased with his hands. He's got a lot to learn on the route running, but he has some natural ability that way. I'm excited.

Oregon State played well. We played poorly. I felt we were capable of more.

He is a tough, strong runner. He has to learn to run more with his eyes than his brute strength ... so he can avoid some of that contact because after you run over two or three guys, it can slow you down. He needs to use his eyes and make some people miss.