Phillip Fulmer Quotes (85 Quotes)

I don't know that we've done anybody justice as to where we're going, but with what we've got, we've done the best that we can.

Monday night football, they've been watching that since they've been watching football, ... Some people will choose instead of the pro game, they'll flip over to our game, so really we've got the attention of the nation to see what we're doing.

Some good things, some not good. The interceptions just really hurt. The grounding he needs to move around in the pocket,

It's just the nature of the business, and he'll do a good job for them. We play them every year, so there's not a lot of secrets anyway.

Our team completely agreed, and we addressed that today, that all the hardships those people (in Louisiana) are going through and have been through that our little bit of an adjustment of the schedule is nothing in comparison, ... Everybody will be fine with it.

I am concerned about this weather that's apparently coming in, but that's not something we can do anything about today.

All the positions are not where we need them to be yet and, certainly, getting some of the injured guys back will help us. But I like the way our guys go about their business on both sides.

I think Rick Clausen is absolutely one of the greatest stories in college football last year and he brings leadership, a calm demeanor, an intellect of knowing our offense and using the personnel around him very effectively, ... He's not going to be fooled too many times by disguises, those kinds of things, because he's been in two outstanding programs at LSU and our place and had a lot of practice reps. And he has enough ability to get the ball out to where he wants to get it out to.

He doesn't seem quite as aggressive right now as I would like for him to be, or as he was at times last year, ... Plus, last year he had pushed himself out front. When you've got competition, you've got to fight back. I don't want him to sit back and take the role of, 'Well, I got beat out.' I hope he'll compete.

I think we've done everything we can to make this work.

Today was OK, probably not as sharp as I would have liked. Probably too many let's-do-it-over plays and you don't get those in a game. But that's why you practice, so tomorrow should be better.

I was really happy, and I'm almost hesitant to say this, because every time I brag on him, he goes the other way, but Jon Wade just played really impressive (Monday) night,

I can't say that Rick had that many opportunities. I don't think I can sit here and give you an evaluation right now. Neither one of them played very good, but the people around them didn't play very good, either. It's tough.

In my 13 years, I've not had a season like this. I have never had anything that was easily handed to me and this (season) is not easy. We'll make whatever tough decisions need to be made ... personnel looks that need to be made. We're going to get this thing back on track.

It's exciting for Peyton and for our program and our fans and administration and everybody concerned to have this chance to honor one of our greats from the past. To be a part of the ceremony is really special,

There is a sense of anxiety to hurry up and get started and get back on track.

I can't concern myself with that.

Rick told me to put him in and that he'd get it done. He was mad as heck at me and should have been. I was wrong. I've been wrong before, and I'll be wrong again. But Rick came in and did what he does best.

I think we've got as good a group there as we've had in some time as a whole.

I'm looking for guys who will fight. Their time studying the tape to fully understand what is expected is vital, as is the team taking a bigger step each day. There's a different tempo that we're looking for than some of the guys are playing at right now.

If I could sprinkle magic dust on it, heck, I'd fix it.

Us doing something like that, reflecting on all they have been through down there with the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina, is very minimal as far as an adjustment on our part. It's the right thing to do.

Really, it feels like (Cutcliffe) has never been gone. We have great trust as a staff, and we're improving our effort and our execution.

I don't believe it's been an ability thing or an effort thing, ... We've played some good teams and found a way to screw it up in some special-teams situations and offensively not to be near what we thought.

At times we've looked good. At times we're not very good.

That's a priority, getting on the same page, and one of those ways to help that is to go ahead and make a decision at quarterback and stay with Erik Ainge. That is what we're going to do.

We've got some real challenges ahead. Obviously they start with Notre Dame,

I'm not going to give any advice to Steve. He's got all the answers anyway.

Obviously we're very disappointed in the loss. I thought we had a really great week of preparation coming into the game. Defensively, I thought we played well enough to win the ball game.

It was a good first day in pads. We've got a million miles to go at about every position, but the attitude seems to be headed in the right direction.

Britton has got to prove he's a big-time kicker.

Some of that is coming with experience. He's one of those guys that wants to try to make a play. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. We want to use the system for what it is. There's nothing wrong with the system. It's worked well in the past.

Especially early, I thought we were really sharp. Executed fairly well. Didn't have a whole bunch of mistakes. A few. I thought Erik had a really good game, except the two sacks. He didn't need to have either one of those. He could have thrown the ball away a bit sooner. We need to continue to work with him in those areas.

I'm not taking away from the fact that we got a win today, but it's hard to feel great about it because I thought we'd play better than we did on both sides.

The emotional roller coaster and the need to win is so intense that for the wives, who have no control over what happens on the field, there are times when you want to burst into tears, ... You don't have time to celebrate, and you don't have time to lick your wounds. We win together and we lose together.