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Whenever you have a number four ranking, and we may be moved up to third this week, you can get a big target on your back. I've told our guys that if you stand still, you'll be an easy target, but if you keep moving, it makes it hard for people to zero in on you. So that's what we've got to do, keep moving forward.

Whenever you face Southern, you are going to see the same thing. You are going to see physical defense and guys that believe they are going to win, no matter what the score is.

When everyone had written us out of the chase, that spurred these guys on, and we weren't going to go down without a fight.

When everyone else was going 4-3 and saying they had to get big pass rushers on the field, the Steelers said, 'This is what we do. We recruit guys that fit our system.' They've been successful at it. You have to take your hat off to them. I have a lot of respect for them.

When everybody gets healthy, I think we're going to like our roster, ... We like the guys we have.

Whenever we run the ball that gives us an aggressiveness. It gets those safeties really interested in what's going on up front. If we can (draw) those guys up, our receivers are going to have a field day out there.

Whenever these guys come back they always get into a fete match situation but now they have something solid to look forward to and they all came out this time.

When you score five points in a quarter, even when they score only 10, it's hard to deal with. The guys lost some confidence.

When you saw him break down, that was heartfelt. That was from the heart. Now I wonder what people will say about the image of NBA players. I think this is indicative of where our guys really are.

When you saw him break down, that was heartfelt. I think this is indicative of where our guys really are.

When you're trying to turn a program around, it starts with the guy who has his hands on the ball the most. To me, there are three questions you have to ask. Does the team win, does he make his teammates better and do guys like to play with him? Yes, yes and yes.

When he gets to the second level, there is no catching him from behind, at least not on this team. If you don't turn those guys and let them catch it in stride, they have a better chance to make big plays. The safety wasn't used to seeing that kind of speed and took the wrong angle on it, and (Ford) was gone.

When he gets in a zone, he's most definitely the best kicker in the league. You don't see guys come out and make 50-yarders like they're 30-yarders. He's out there making 50-yarders like it's nothing.

When he gets in a zone, he's most definitely the best kicker in the league, ... You don't see guys come out and make 50-yarders like they're 30-yarders. He's out there making 50-yarders like it's nothing.

When he gave me that answer, it was just walk away and let him pitch. I think it's nice when you have four guys you can count on.

When he first came here last year he was even smaller then, and a new guy, so you really have to make a name for yourself and get the trust from your teammates. And he came up just hitting people last year on special teams, and then finally when he started playing on defense he was really coming downhill and just hitting big guys like Jamal Lewis last year. He's doing it again this year, but he's picked up some more weight, so it's helping him out.

We want our main guys to start playing now. You'll see some different looks.

We want him to know we'll give our life for him. We watched the game film of the UC Davis and Oregon games and saw the number of hits he received. We made sure that didn't happen against Washington State. Trent is one of those guys who can lead you to victory against any team as long as you give him time to work.

We want guys here we've got guys here who want to have people looking at them and wondering what our football team is about.

We want everybody to sleep on us, think that we're not capable of winning any games this year. That's what we want you guys (media) to think. No, we'll be fine, man. We got a lot of talent. All three of us are capable of making plays. Kurt's confident in all three of us and our abilities to make plays. We're going to execute when it's time to execute.

We want everybody out there, and we miss the guys who are out, but there's a mentality in the room where we're focused on what's in front of us. It's just something that builds over the course of the year.

We wanted to win this game pretty bad. It's the last home game of the regular season for the fans. It's our 20th win at home, which is something we wanted, too. The young guys did a great job. There was a lot of energy out of those guys, and we got a big win.

We wanted to win the game but wanted to manage the game as well. Certainly, when we were up 20, I wanted some of our guys to rest their legs. We had to manage the game.

We wanted to win here tonight, ... Kyle (Busch) got a great restart, great job by those guys tonight. They deserve it. Just a great job by my guys in the pit. We adjusted the heck out of that racecar tonight.

We wanted to try to start establishing our bench more, so basically we're playing three guys and giving those guys a little bit more minutes.

We've still got some big guys down in St. Pete that we can't wait to get back, so we're not clicking on all cylinders by any means. It's not even close and even then, we're hanging with some big teams. So we'll see how it works out.

We were blocking the right guys and Shaun was making the correct cuts,

We were behind going into singles and these guys kept battling. They kept fighting and played some great singles matches. It's a great way to start the season.

We were a young team this year, but it was a good year. We're better than what we showed tonight. But our guys all hustled and didn't give up. We were just ice cold.

We were a young team that just missed on some things last year. This year, most of those guys are back.

We were aware of his every whereabouts. He likes to make his moves in transition. We had three or four guys back every time. We took Kobe out of his sweet spots by running guys at him, and their other guys never got going.

We were a very good team with Adam and Mike up front and Matt and Jake making plays from the midfield. What turned us into a great team was moving Shane Curran-Hays to sweeper. The other players have total confidence in him. The guys know that they can hold the ball a little longer now. Shane gets to balls that other people would not. His presence made a great change in us in the back. We are quick at every position, really. So communication becomes key, especially because we play zonal defense.

We were at the low end of the ACC, and our big guy got hurt. We ended up winning nine of the last 11 and were within four minutes of winning the ACC championship. On offense, we became a very unique team to play against, and we had a lot of different guys make shots. Sometimes when you play without a big man, it's tough on the other team. They have to adjust to you.

We were a team tonight, in the truest sense of the word, because we have quality people in uniform. We don't have any ego-type players. These guys get out of bed every day trying to figure out ways to help this team.

We were a stronger team than they were. I thought we were a little tentative at times, but halfway through first set the guys played smart tennis. The last set scores were pretty convincing.

We were a sick team at the start of it, and then I thought we became a banged-up team as well, ... A third of the team is feeling like it should be in bed. We need a bye right now. It was a long preseason. And now we're a little banged up on top of that. I just need to get these guys a break.

We were a long shot a month ago and now I don't think anybody can look at us and say we don't deserve to be here. The team we have in there is incredible. It's probably the best group of guys I've ever played with as far as personality-wise, the way everyone gets along, the goals we all have. Everyone bought into what we want to do and there are no egos and that's really odd in pro sports.

We were trying to go hard to get guys in here for competition. Instead of one guy, we may go by committee to try to replace Antoine.

We were trying to get the seniors to lead us, but the younger guys stepped up.

We were trying to get some young guys some work, guys who hadn't been getting as many innings on the weekend. So that was the initial plan either way. So it worked out where a guy would struggle, but we had a guy ready to go.

We were trying to get guys open in front of the net and it just didn't happen. We didn't generate anything there. When you get a chance like that, you have to create havoc and make something happen.

We were trying everything to get him his victory. It was a great run by Greg. The guys wanted to win for him, and we left him in in the ninth to have that opportunity.

We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.

We want to try to be as balanced as we can offensively, run and pass. We don't have the one guy that a lot of schools might have. We'll do it as a team, do it by committee. A lot of guys will get to carry and catch the ball.

We want to tailor our offense to our personnel. We have good running backs, and we want to feature those guys, as you saw today. I thought those guys stood out. The running backs did a nice job.

We want to see guys compete so we can know whether they need to be here, we want them to be here and if they are the kind of people we want. The record doesn't really matter, the result doesn't matter and the score in the game doesn't really matter.

We were in a situation we could have lost this game. We were in the same situation we were in when we lost to Western Carolina (in the final game) last season. But these guys went out there and won this one.

We were hoping we would not get sucked into that kind of a game, but it's much easier said than done, look, they've done it twice. Coach (Paul) Jeppesen is a solid coach who has been around, and he had those guys playing the way they needed to beat us.

We were hoping to have a better game to solidify us as a legitimate team. We'll be OK. We're on solid ground. We have 13 guys who are all legitimate, good players and on any give day any one of them can get the job done.

We were hoping to get the team right after this tournament. We were hoping some guys would play good and we'd say OK this is our five guys.

We were hoping to get John going 1-on-1 and creating, either looking to score himself or dishing to one of the big guys underneath or a shooter on the wing. We didn't run the play correctly.

We were hoping to get a spark from anybody. We're a team that, for us to win, we have to have a couple of guys step up and play better than we'd all consider normal.

We were hoping to get a few more district qualifiers. The positive is that all three of our guys who made it were sectional champs. I was pleased with how hard the team competed all day.

We were hoping to get a couple of other guys through to Madison, but it just didn't happen. We knew Brad was going to do well, but we thought a couple of other guys might get through, too. It just didn't happen. But we're very pleased that Brad is going back to state.

We'll be here two or three more weeks. I suppose if another hurricane came through, we could go out again. But the guys would complain. They're already tired.

We'll be going against a lot of size and those guys will have to do a great job for us.

We'll be fine. We've been doing this for months now. We're very deep, and we've got a great group of guys that can step in. We'll bounce back.

We'll be fine. I have guys that are good athletes and quick feet. I can work with that.

We'll be doing a lot of press-breaking work this week. We'll be scrimmaging ourselves and holding each other accountable, and we may work on some defense because those guys will be hard to guard man-to-man. We'll have pressure in our face for 32 minutes.

We'll be awful good on defense. We'll have a good offensive team. How good? It depends on how some guys come through for us in some key areas. Our biggest concern is our depth on offense.

We'll be a real contender for sure. Beyond that, a lot will depend on how the new guys come along and whether some of the veterans like Nick Cuff and Travis Douglas return from injury.

We'll see what kind of team we are when we wake up with an 18-1 record, not 19-0. But the guys we got right now, we know this is part of it. We understand. We're ready.

We are always a bat-first team, but the local guys said we could break through on the first morning and that days two and three would be best for batting. Well, we didn't make the breakthrough and batting certainly looked easy today.

We are all curious to see how it's going to hold up, playing this fast. A handful of guys are under par and with the wind supposed to blow, it's going to be interesting.

The regular guy still relates to him and Howard is a $500 million guy now who dates a model and drives about in a limo all day. But Howard still knows how to make a plumber laugh and those guys still have him on in the morning, because he is a real talent.

Therefore you need high speed from your house out and the cable companies and the TV guys are just not thinking about it at all.

The referees blew the whistle a lot. Anthony got to the line a lot. Our guys on our team got to the line a few times.

With Wood and Prior in there, we'd be pretty tough. But we've got some young guys who really throw the ball well.

Women tell me they won't date a guy with bad shoes. There are good-looking guys with good-looking outfits, and then really bad-looking square toe I-don't-even-want-to-mention-the-label kind of shoes. There is no reason for that. Again, invest in something that looks proper. A great pair of shoes can make your old outfit look great, too.

We act the same. The crazy guys act crazy and goofy. He and his wife, they walk around. They say hi to every one of us. They know every single one of our names. They know what's going on.

We achieved what we needed to achieve, we finished the race and finished well but I'm a racer and you always want to do better. I made some mistakes but overall I have to be pleased. I think for me, the record is great but the less of a female novelty that this thing becomes, the better. I'm just trying to be a race car driver and do what these guys do.

We absorbed non-production from some guys the best we could,

We always have to respect our opponent. Our guys found out early in the game that they can't take anyone lightly.

We always have a lot of new guys come out for the team, but the new guys have a lot of potential. Before, we just had people who filled the spots.

We always have a harder time attracting women to this kind of a career vs. men, ... A lot more guys are interested in this job.

We always harp on our guys - good things happen when you shoot the puck.

We always felt that pitching was the most important aspect of the game and we caught ourselves at times, especially in the middle of the season, not dedicating enough time for those guys to get their work in. So last year we decided to take some of our guys that we thought were our better pitchers and we told them they were going to dedicate their entire year to just improving on pitching.

We are going to have to play them harder than we ever have before. They have remarkable senior leadership, and their guys are making tough shots.

We are going to have to do something before we really wear out our top guys with all of the power-plays we're now seeing. If this trend continues and you apply that to an 82-game schedule, that extra unit is really going to come in handy, unless of course the players adapt their game to the new rules and spend less time in the box.

This was a team effort. Different guys made plays, and then other guys stepped up and made plays.

This was a surprise. But I tell our guys to expect the unexpected ... When you come to grips with how you have to beat a team, most of the time you are going to be very successful.

This was as good a performance as I've seen in awhile. These guys were awesome. I could have called any play on my sheet today. The blocking was crisp, the running was outstanding, the effort was awesome.

We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.

We are not athletic or quick enough to be playing from behind. These guys know it, and the coaching staff knows it. Boy, did (Arizona) play well.

We are not a team with just two or three superstars. We can back up those guys, Cooper and Stump, with guys like Mike Marshall, who also is good in shot and discus, and Zach Schmidt in triple and long jump.

We did not have many good swings against him. He made some guys look bad out there.

We did not end the season on a positive note. But, as always, we have high expectations. We have a lot of guys returning (from a team that finished 19-7-1 and won the conference title for the fourth-consecutive year) and we have quite a few skill-players.

We did keep a few guys out of the game to get them healed for next week. They should be back next week.

We did have to alter our game plan a little bit, but not a whole lot. I think guys stepped up and played hard and did a good job.

We did great and I'm really proud of the way the guys wrestled. Five of our wrestlers made it to the finals, three took away titles and eight placed. We're three time defending champions but never have we won by this sizable a margin. It's difficult for us up there because we're not part of the North coast section.

We did good. Matt (Mitchell) had a little trouble today, but the other guys stepped up and improved today. The score stayed within three shots of (Wednesday). One guy struggled, but the other guys came through. It turned out to be just as good.

We did get some hits, but we left guys on base. We're just not swinging the bats the way we need to. But everyone we're putting out there on the mound is doing a great job.

We did face a lot of adversity at Brevard and our guys did a good job bouncing back. We were playing fullback by committee there so it was a true team win.

We did everything we could. We threw three guys on him. He played well. He'll be the best player we play all year.

We'd have a list of charities, and say, 'These are the ones that effective. Which ones do you want to do?' This lets guys vote on where they want to put money, and we can put money in different areas, ... Guys want to see where the money's going to be used, not just that you're giving it to somebody and one half's going to overhead and one's half going someplace else. They want to know that it's being used and used right.

We'd get tired of it if he didn't know what he was talking about, but he's so knowledgeable that guys are in awe more than anything. He sees everybody on every possession. He's not just looking at one or two guys. That's what impresses guys the most.

We designed the last play to get him the basketball. He split a couple of guys and got into the lane. The ball hit the back of the rim, went straight up and fell through.

We deserve that record. Our guys played hard and stuck together through a lot of ups and downs. And we continued to win.

What we need is a win. Our team wants to get better each week and a lot of times when you get young guys in there, you can lose focus. That's one thing coach Dungy preaches, staying focused.

There is a similarity in the kinds of characters I gravitate to that goes back to my earliest years in the business on SCTV, ... I have more fun playing guys who are not the sharp pencils. I like the characters who are just average, if not a little below average, so the average person can look at my character on the screen and feel a little better about themselves.