Dave Wannstedt Best Quotations

I probably won't do that until two weeks before the season begins. The best guys will play.

If you turn the football over, you turn them over for touchdowns or turn them over in the red zone, you're not going to beat anyone, ... Tyler is our leader. He's one of the best players we have on this team. He's won an awful lot of games around here and he'll continue to win an awful lot of games.

People were fired up. We had several recruits at our game, and they're fired up. It's going to be a top 10, possibly better, class in the entire country. It's going to be one of the best classes that I believe, if everything stays on course, that we've had here in a long, long time.

So, in all fairness to the kids, if we're going to be putting it on them to line up against Virginia (next season's opener) and win for us, then I think it's best for the team and them to get some experience and play.

That's what the foundation of this program is going to be built on and the next few years that's what this team is going to be built on -- players we can trust, players that are going to be accountable and players who want to be the best -- not just OK, the best.

When we run our tosses and our powers and our heavy run game, he's got to block somebody. He needs it. In the long run, it'll be the best thing that's happened to him.

I called Bill Parcells and he told me, 'You gotta do whatever you need to do every week in this league to win,' ... This will give us the best chance.

I had to take the emotion out of it. Once I realized this was what was best for me and my family, I knew I needed to pursue it again.