Rick Thomas Quotations

I have been there. It's a difficult situation knowing you're going to leave your family and be deployed for a year. Balancing family time with training is what our ultimate goal is, so that we can provide some training time, but never lose the priority.

He had some momentum, like he was running down hill. I flowed over and got my nose busted.

It is a different world in that the sense of urgency and sense of need is so much heightened.

I thought we outplayed them and really should have won, but we made some careless mistakes that cost us.

I was a little nervous, because it's a big jump from the JV up to the varsity.

At the end of it, our goal is that every soldier comes back safely. That's what drives everything we do in training. That's the best thing we can do for the soldiers and the best thing we can do for their families.

This is a talented group of girls. If I can get them to play like they did in the first 10-15 minutes for 80, I think we could be the best team in the state.

It's going to be bigger and better. And it's going to be held all around the gazebo area.

It's hard; it's a lot of work. But all I've ever wanted to do is be a magician, and for a lot of places in Vegas, the way you get to the stage is to four-wall.

I had nine tackles and two sacks. I remember our crowd got behind us and really got us into it. I could really feel it during the game.