Mark Clifford Quotations

Just like last year, they've got some big kids on the line. It's going to be a tough game. Their defensive line is tough, and we're going to run the football.

They're going to do the same thing they did to us last year. We've got to get physical.

They're all kind of blue-collar guys, you know, hard-nosed kids. All of them are very strong, take pride in their strength.

Battling heat, the long preseason, continuing to lift weights, I think the kids are ready. I think mentally, we're ready.

They are a much better football team this year. Their numbers are up.

Everybody saw last year what the offense needs. The offense we run needs two compatible running backs. And I think (Aiken) mixes in about as good as Jermaine (Gray) did last year.

He'd obviously been there a long time and whatever he was surviving on wasn't giving him that much nutrition. (He is) a big tall man, six foot two, six foot three, and he was just a walking skeleton basically.

He was just a walking skeleton. That's the best way to describe him.

He was skeletal, he was really emaciated and when the boys found him he could only walk and fall and stumble.

It'll be a good test for us to find out how good we are.