Roger Hughes Quotes (26 Quotes)

When you're ahead in the game, or you're not a long ways behind, you can stay with your game plan. I'm anxious to see how we respond if the tables are turned and we're not ahead. That's one of the things this team has not faced yet, is some adversity like that. As we get into the meat of our schedule, things aren't always going to go our way like they did last week.

Without timely and relevant information on quality and cost, we're flying blind. The technology and scale to deliver that information is now in place. With this recognition and selection by AQA, we look forward to joining the public-private partnership and creating an unprecedented resource with value for all Arizonans.

I was proud of our team's effort. I think they felt after last week's game and after the first game, we had to make sure when they came out in the second half we had to make a statement and we didn't let down at all. I was very pleased with both sides of the ball. Our offensive and defensive lines, I thought, dominated the game. I couldn't be prouder of our effort.

We were doing so well offensively, and I thought Jeff was in the zone - his passes were crisp and on the money - so I wasn't going to chance a change in the rhythm, especially coming out in the third quarter. Even in the third quarter, I told Jeff, 'You need to take this one down and score so we can get some other guys in the game here, and you need to establish your dominance,' and he really did that.

We have not handled success well in past seasons. It's a 10-round fight, and what happened in the third round today has no bearing on what happens next week.

As a coach, you always strive for perfection. Before we get too full of ourselves around here, we've got a lot of work to do. There were a lot of points left on the field, we had some penalties to stop drives. The good thing is Derek Javarone has been fairly consistent. He's been 100 percent scoring points in the red zone. That's been the difference. As I told the team, be happy but not satisfied. We have a long way to go. The strength of our schedule is ahead of us. We certainly can't sit back and start feeling too good about ourselves.

We just can't have the penalties, especially in the red zone. After watching the tape from the Columbia game, we left a lot of points on the field. Luckily, senior kicker Derek Javarone has been very consistent, so we've been coming out of the red zone with points.

You have more business leaders willing to enter into that conversation, mostly for self-serving reasons, quite frankly. This is a huge burden on their bottom line. It has become pretty clear that this system is not sustainable, and business leaders are finally coming to this conclusion.

I think it's human nature before a season to look at your schedule and say, We match up well here, we don't match up well here, this will be a tough game, this won't.' But we can't do that,

We tried to claw our way back, and it seems like every time we did something good we shot ourselves in the foot.

I thought Jeff was in the zone today. His passes were crisp they were on the money.

The cost of an Ivy League school to a West Coast family is not the same as it is to a family say from Nebraska,

How is our defensive line going to play ... We have some guys on defense who have some experience, but what will our defense look like without Zak Keasey We lost 127 tackles, quarterback pressures and big plays when we lost him. How they will play without him is one of the big question marks we face.

The kids are very test-oriented out there. There is a greater test-taking awareness, just a greater emphasis put on test-taking in California.

Execution-wise we had too many penalties offensively. We had too many mental errors offensively, turned the ball over too many times, and you can't do that against a good team.

I didn't feel comfortable until towards the end. One of the things we're trying to strive for as a team is to find the knockout punch, and today I think we were able to do that.

We have not handled success well. We have not handled prosperity well. So my message to the kids is, listen it's a 10-round fight and what happened in the third-round today has no bearings on what happens next week. That's been the mindset, and I think this team has the culture of holding each other accountable so that that doesn't happen.

One of the things we're striving for as a team is to find the knockout punch. Today we were able to do that.

Clearly, when you're ahead in the game or when you're not a long ways behind, ... you can stay with your game plan. I'm anxious to see how we respond if the tables are turned on us and we're not ahead - that's one thing this team hasn't faced, some adversity like that.

I use less blood pressure medicine in games like Saturday's,

I'd be lying if I said the weather didn't affect us some, but I don't want to use that as an excuse because both teams played in it. Clearly we had balls that were on the money that we dropped. We missed some reads. Offensively, our backs didn't get to the back side of things in time. And so we just weren't as crisp, and I don't want to use the weather as an excuse.

If you came and watched five minutes of one of our games at the wrong time, ... you might think, 'Wow, this guy screams a lot.' But what you don't see is him put his arm around a guy afterwards, how much he helps the players with their academics, how he helps them find a tutor. What you don't see is how much he loves those kids.

It looked to me like we had the balls delivered where they were supposed to be, we had the right patterns called, and we didn't execute or make the catch. When the game is on the line, we talk about who can you count on when the game counts, and we didn't come up with a play to win the game or at least a play to keep the drive going.

At halftime, there was no sense of letdown and there was no sense we had the game under control,

I'm very pleased with both sides of the ball. Our offensive and defensive lines, I thought, dominated the game.

Anything that brings business to the port is good.