Ron Zook Quotes (64 Quotes)

So guys, I've got some good news andsome bad news, ... How about the good news first. God knows we could use some after last weekend. Well, it's official, I'm still your coach

At least we know what it is now, and hopefully it's taken care of. We can go from there.

I knew that Rutgers was much improved, ... They're a veteran club and experienced, and I didn't realize they're as athletic as they are. I know a lot of their guys from recruiting, so I know they're talented.

He reminds me of Chris Leak, the guy we had at Florida. He's very athletic, very humble, and he's a leader. He was calling me and asking, 'How about this guy, how about this guy' It's hard to get that team attitude today.

That was the first time I felt the momentum was ours,

Vince has done everything I thought he would do in learning our package. He's spent time with the defensive line and linebackers, and I help a lot in the secondary. We've made great improvement on defense, which we should.

Our offensive line has got to improve. And defensively, there's no question we have to improve. There's no doubt in my mind we will be improved. We've got to play the type of defense you have to play in the Big Ten Conference.

There were some interesting moments, but as I told my wife at 515 this morning, if we're not worried we're not recruiting the right guys. But it went exactly as we thought, and that doesn't happen. That might be the most surprising thing.

We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.

He wants to have an opportunity to play more and he didn't know if that's going to happen. He wants to get into an offense that fits him better.

The more we can go out and play and compete, the better we will be. We'll have regular 12-minute quarters in the first half and we'll have 12-minute quarters in the second half but probably with a running clock. We might change that to make it more competitive.

It's a little bit like our situation in that all three of our running backs are a little different in the way that they run, the way they attack, the power, that kind of thing, ... When you look at what they've done running the football, I think you've got to feel like they're doing something right.

You had to make sure, particularly this first year here, that we had to fill our needs. For the most part, I think we hit right on.

Right now, we're undefeated. I'm more excited about a spring than I've been in a long, long time. (But) we've got a long way to go. We're a little bigger, a little stronger, hopefully a little quicker. We've helped ourselves with the seven (new) guys that are in here right now and the younger guys are a little more mature in how they handle themselves.

We have to worry about us. We can't worry about anybody else until we get ourselves fixed.

He has had success at the highest level of college football and that winning attitude will be a great advantage as we move forward with the progress of this program.

I think it's important that we get the right guy who can come in here and recruit and just continue doing the things that we're doing. The mistake would be to rush into something. We're fine this thing is going to keep on going at the same speed. We're not going to slow down a bit. I don't foresee any change at all.

It was not bad, it was really a pretty good practice, but we can be better. We're at the point where we need to stress to be as good as we can be all the time.

You look at that first half, and we were awful, ... We weren't pretty at times, but we're going to be a better team than people think we are.

There's no question Jason Reda can kick. He's gotten more and more confident and a little more consistent.

Our offensive line has to improve. Overall defensively we have to improve. We have to improve across the board.

Every play on special teams is a nightmare. Cal comes after the punt. They're like sharks smelling blood right now. They will come after us and try to do the same thing.

That's something that we're going to have to continue to improve on it's something that we need. It's close contact, usually you don't get many injuries there. It's a drill where the defense has got to learn to separate and the offense has to accelerate their feet and just keep doing it.

He hasn't made the strides that I'd like to see in the weight room. That's impossible. He's burning the candle at both ends. It's important that he has a very good summer in the weight room and get a little bit stronger.

I can't begin to tell you how much I appreciate and respect these players,

I just told them we're not ready to play, but then again we don't have to be ready to play. We still got some time, so we've got to continue to improve and get better.

If this had been a game he would have played, but you want to be safe any time you have a head injury.

He's done everything I thought he would do at this point. He's extremely fast. He's made great strides at getting stronger and bigger.

I think that maybe in Florida, the expectations were a little out of sync where they were talent-wise.

These guys are in as good a shape as they've ever been in their lives, there's no question about that. What happens is the expectation is that we're going to go out, we're going to go through practice and just get through it. As far as we've got to go, we can't do that. In my mind the game's tomorrow. It's not in September it's tomorrow.

I don't think it's done, but we've had some examples where we feel we've made some strides in that regard, ... Winning is a habit. Unfortunately, so is losing. ... We've put ourselves in some situations the last two ballgames that you don't necessarily want to be in, but yet they hung in there, so I've got to believe some of it's getting through.

They were scheduled to miss the Middle Tennessee game. It's not their fault there was a hurricane.

Even though it probably went exactly as we thought it would two days ago, until those faxes come across, you never know.

What he's done for the game of college football is unbelievable, ... It is an honor and privilege to coach against him.

Our players should realize we can compete with a team that is ranked 15th in the country,

It's day-to-day with Derrick. His conditioning is good, but he's a freshman, so it's going to take some time.

We had opportunities to stand up and make plays and we just didn't do it. I'm tired of it. I know the coaches are tired of it, and I know a lot of guys in that locker room are tired of it.

I thought he did a nice job. He showed some bursts.

A lot of guys would get into his situation and their confidence would be shot and it would hard to get anything out of them. But he was able to forget it all and I'm proud of him for that.

We have a lot to learn from this game, ... We'll get back and get better.

Cal is awfully good. We have a long way to gowe're hardly touching the iceberg. We're not ready to face Cal but we're excited about the opportunity.

Chris is a guy the offensive coaches fought for the day we walked in the door. He's a guy that could possibly be an NFL offensive lineman, as well.

I'm probably more excited about spring ball starting tomorrow than I can remember in a long time. It's just so much different than a year ago.

We didn't come out here and embarrass ourselves. That's the 15th-ranked team in the country. As I told our team, hopefully they understand that they can play with anybody. It's all about believing.

They made a lot of adjustments on both sides of the football, ... more pressure on defense.

We're not near in as bad of shape as I thought we were during the course of the game. I kept saying during the course of the game that we were not getting enough pressure.

We'll be fine. We won't miss a beat.

I've said this all along, but the thing Tim has continued to do is that he takes care of the football,

That's why he's a heck of a quarterback. He can scramble and make things happen. He may be the difference why they got the points and we didn't.

Vince has done everything that I thought he would in terms of coming in, learning our package. I've been very, very happy with the way that's going. We've made great improvement on defense, as we should. We've just got to continue to improve there.