Mike Rippee Quotes (10 Quotes)

James isn't as big as the nose guards we've had the last few years, but he has that same motor. He keeps it going at all times and has a tremendous desire to succeed. Bryan has done some good things in the preseason and we expect a lot out of Cory this year.

There's no doubt about it, I truly feel you have to be a good defensive team to go anywhere. Defense is a lot of attitude and desire. You have to be disciplined and you have to be a real competitor to play defense. At this point in time, we have a way to go to get there.

Pound for pound, Henry is probably one of the strongest guys on the team. We count on him being very physical and running that defense.

You do have to give Hug the edge in our league. They won it last year and they have a lot of those guys back.

Offensively, we are ahead of where we've been compared to this point in the season the last few years. We've seen some real good things.

Like a lot of places, we've had some good runs and some bad runs, and the last three years we've had some real good years. I hope we've established something here, where our kids expect to win and not just hope to win.

I have a committee back there right now. Maybe eventually one of them will step up and get away from the others, but right now there isn't a whole lot separating them.

We've got some kids who are playing hard we just need to get it done for 48 minutes. We stand toe-to-toe with anybody, there have just been a few breakdowns here and there that have hurt us.

Kids can also just go on the computer and the Internet and get what they want. When I was growing up in Yerington 30 years ago, we didn't have any of those things.

We're never going to stop him, we can just hope to contain him a little bit. We have to know where he is when he's on the field and try to keep him breaking those 50-, 60-yarders.