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He just has a great nose for the football. He had nine (or so) interceptions in junior high with a cast on his hand. He's aggressive, and he goes up and gets it like a rebound.

I think the football players, as a whole, have done a great job of representing the institution. They have done well academically and militarily. You take a look at the track record of the program since Paul Johnson has been here, there hasn't been many issues in four years.

Being consistently good is so important for a football team. Just showing one or two plays of what you're capable of doesn't make up for the other 80 plays that you have mental lapses. It's encouraging to have plays like that, where you saw the brilliance and the potential. But if we can't do that every play it really doesn't matter.

It was an unfortunate situation, especially because when we got that first down I kind of felt like we were moving the football. I don't know what happened. I'm not going to blame anybody.

He's progressing really well. He's gone through some things back home, and because he's a junior college transfer, he had to pass a bunch of classes over the summer. So he did more academics than football. But he took care of (the academics) and passed his classes.

It's a little different what you are doing in practice and when you are in a ballgame and want to make an extra yard and you get a little bit careless with the football. That should come with experience.

We look at the whole package, physical and mental aspects, especially how people react to what's going on. Mike has qualities that work well on the football field. He could've come in here from a Division I school and had an edge but it was the exact opposite. He has come in and fit like the proverbial expensive Italian glove.

He's amazing, and his family background is amazing. What he has overcome already in life is really heart-wrenching. I know this This team loves him. He's the type of guy who really adds to the chemistry of a football team. People can't get enough of him and what he can do with his magic.

Barry Alvarez is Wisconsin football. His coaching legacy is one of the greatest in college football history. Barry Alvarez is a once-in-a-lifetime guy.

While the football game was exciting, I am especially writing to express my sincere apology and regret to you, your president and all Tennessee fans for the incident which took place on our campus as your team buses were approaching Tiger Stadium.

I work hard. I work 80-90 hours a week in part-time football.

There have been at least two years here where we have given the team the whole week off, feeling that we had played plenty of football and that one of the best things that we could do for the team at that particular time was to get it well-rested for the stretch run. Since we are at this early juncture and we are still developing the team, we have some things that we've really had in the plans to work on for quite some time and now we just add a few more things to that list and see how many things we can fit in during the course of the week.

Dundee United would not be in Europe and have got to the Scottish Cup final without Jason Scotland. They the panel said he never made an impact in Scottish football - that's an impact if ever I saw one. More importantly than that they have robbed a young lad of his livelihood. I was brought up with the message that if you work hard and you are a good citizen then you will be successful but that didn't work for Jason Scotland. He is a young boy of 26 and has made a tremendous impact on the community. They are kicking him out of football - which is disgraceful.

We didn't come over to make a statement, we came over here to win a football game. We came over here thinking we could win.

They don't want to play smash-mouth football. They want to trick you.

I worry about what we got, ... I worry about what we got to work with. I feel real good with the players we have. We got to go out, keep mistakes to a minimum and playing winning football. Simple as that. If we do that, I think we'll be just fine.

No doubt about it, this is what I came here for. I knew we were going to win a lot of football games this year. I thought I would cry (after the final gun), but I don't know how to act. It really hasn't hit me yet. It's been a long time since I felt like

At the time, we were the biggest thing to hit the state of Florida. This town really embraced basketball, and for a few weeks, everyone forgot about spring football.

That just means that I have been in the league for a long time, ... It only matters for people that are involved in Arena Football and it just doesn't mean anything to people outside of Arena Football.

He doesn't fumble at all. Even though he's not the biggest person, he runs inside and outside and he has quicks and speed. If you take that combination, that's a lethal combination and you take care of the football on top of it.

We're a very large enterprise now. It will be difficult to find a CEO with a strong-enough football background, and a football person with a strong-enough business background. We need to keep growing and expanding.

I feel great. That's the thing. I haven't felt this good since May or June. I have no wear and tear on my body. I feel fine. I didn't hurt my arm. I still know how to throw that ball. I still know how to go to the right place with the football. I think I can do that.

I picture my sister everywhere I go, ... We visit her grave site all the time. That's someone I'll have with me long after football and I'll pass on her memory to my son.

He's carrying this label that he's this mistake-prone guy from his days with the Cardinals. Anyone who knows anything about football is going to know that (Sunday) it was about more than just Jake. Unfortunately, he's the one that's going to have to take the brunt of it.

He was just a normal young boy. He loved football.

Organizers say if they can't count on the people from out-of-state to make it they'll have to count on the people of the host city. We have a lot of football fans here, ... And so we know that the community loves this event, loves the parade and we want everyone to just step up to support it.

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.

My dad was the football coach for the high school a few years ago and I wanted to play football with my older brother Gary on the unlimited,

The person determined to achieve maximum success learns the principle that progress is made one step at a time. A house is built one brick at a time. Football games are won a play at a time. A department store grows bigger one customer at a time. Every big accomplishment is a series of little accomplishments.

I don't live my life trying to prove anything. I set high goals for myself. I set high goals for my team, and as a group, we just try to achieve them. Contracts are contracts. They're just part of the business that's after football, but it has nothing to do with what we do on the field.

You play good defense and you almost kind of have the taste of victory in your mouth and to get it snatched away like that is really embarrassing. That's not the way that I play football. That's not the way the defense plays football, and as a team that's not the way we should be playing football.

He was a workhorse, on both sides of the football. He ran the ball hard, and was a focal point, shutting down the field at middle linebacker. Missing Renner makes him the featured back. Having him and Mark Wright as the one-two punch, that's still a pretty solid rushing attack.

We felt the pain of you guys being obsessed with fantasy football. I kept kidding around that I was going to start this league and had the idea a few years ago. In January, we ran two experimental seasons and by the third day we had a pretty strong concept. Now, we have people in the U.K. and Vietnam playing.

I love football, but basketball is my favorite sport. All the scholarship offers I received were for football, so I decided I am gonna have to try to walk-on and be a two-sport athlete.

We're going to have to be intense and focused and take care of football.

This is what we'll do, we'll just put it all behind us and play some football.

He now distinguishes me (on television) from other players. Every time he used to watch football, hed ask his mom, Is that my dad playing no matter what team it was. Now he knows what color my jersey is, so he distinguishes me from other players.

After discussing this new package of games with many potential partners, we decided it would be best presented on our own, high-quality NFL Network, which has developed so rapidly that the time had come to add live regular-season games to the programming. In the end, we wanted these games on our network, which is devoted 247 to the sport of football, and not on a multi-sport network.

I play this game for the camaraderie, but most of all because I am able to hit people and get away with it. I like knowing that I can hit a man and it hurts him and I can get away with it. I can't do that on the streets. Football is a violent game, but it brings me peace. The field is my sanctuary.

It is amazing to me that, right up until race time, these guys are still accessible to the fans and signing autographs. You would never get that close to any other athlete in any other sport. I don't know that in football - while I was playing or even now m that players really understand or appreciate what drives the sport. In NASCAR, they seem to have a pretty good feel for it.

I'm closer to being happy. I'm doing things that make me happy. In football I loved to practice and I loved to play, but I hated to be in meetings, hated to talk to the media, hated to have cameras in my face, hated to sign autographs. I hated to do all those things.

I have to stress again that what we have done so far is to simply create an opportunity to make this season historic for the football club. We haven't won anything yet, but we are determined to give it our best shot.

Paul might be the most famous Kentuckian as far as football, ... I've known Billy for years, so I asked him since he was coming if he would like to see if Paul would like to come. He's a real institution.

My heart is in Coventry City now but I do have a twinge. It's a bit like when your dad takes you to a football ground and you grow up supporting another team, you still have a little bit of affection. I played for Burnley for ten years but things have changed and now I'm at Coventry.

I hadn't really been getting to play a whole lot. Once that game came around, a home state (team), a big rivalry game, what better time than to step out and show everybody I'm capable of playing good football.

I do miss playing football, but I'm playing in one of the best programs in America, and it can't be beat.

I don't think Belichick asked about my wife and kids. Not that he doesn't care. I think he is a nice, personable person. But I came in here to discuss a football job and we discussed football.

I don't think he's a guy who enjoys it that much. But he's handled the whole thing well. A lot of that has to do with how he was brought up. Small town. Good family values. He's more interested in hanging with the guys and playing football.

People stress the violence. That's the smallest part of it. Football is brutal only from a distance. In the middle of it there's a calm, a tranquility. The players accept pain. There's a sense of order even at the end of a running play with bodies strewn everywhere. When the systems interlock, there's a satisfaction to the game that can't be duplicated. There's a harmony.

I think we all understand that a running game allows you to control the game. When we were able to run the football, that allows you to protect your defense and it allows you to do a lot of things that help you to win. We were very, very average running the football. And I think that always comes back to haunt you. I can guarantee you this spring that becomes an area that we must improve in, and we will.