Wayne Jackson Quotations

We're going to face a totally different team than South Lenoir faced, ... After a week of practice, Kinston has a player saying, 'I'm the man running the team.' We're going to get their best shot, I'm sure.

He's beat up pretty bad. When the season is over, he'll have surgery on it. He's just trying to hold off until the end of the season. It's his senior year and he wants to do everything he can to help his team.

We've got to play better football, ... This is not a slight toward anyone, but we're not at all concerned with Kinston - we're just concerned with getting better. We have a young, inexperienced team that is working hard to get better. We have to play better football.

We made some plays tonight that we haven't been making.

I think it's going to be the biggest crowd we've ever had. This is great for Lenoir County football, because football here has been poor. Lenoir County is going to see what big-time football is all about (tonight).

It hurt us, because he's the guy that gets the majority of the reps. But that's part of football. Your backups have to be able to step in and do the job. (Sophomore backup) Kenduall (Thorbs) did a good job. But that wasn't the deciding factor tonight.

That win was very sweet to us. A lot of people had left us for dead.

We have to match their intensity and competitiveness. We also have to minimize our mistakes and contain Brandon Rouse.

We're emerging from this disappointed, given our hard work associated with the transaction, but gratified that the company's in as good a position as it is. You can expect that we will continue to be very aggressive.

We would always take every opportunity to promote our position on racism and that was through promotional brochures, putting information in the Football Record and talking publicly about it on TV and radio, so that no one is any doubt what our position is.

We had those injuries that hurt us. It was psychological more than physical. And we ended up not making the plays when we needed them.

Aycock is a good, solid football team. It's going to be tough for us to stop them.

This is the kind of atmosphere that I've been trying to tell people in Lenoir County that you can have if you support your football coaches and if you support your football teams. There were more people here to see this game than there has been to see any other sport in Lenoir County.

It was a crash course in civics for sure.

They've got really good quickness on defense. I'm also impressed with how hard their kids play. The ability, savvy, competitiveness and toughness of Brandon Rouse have also been impressive.

I'm not that surprised by their start. They had a good JV team and have a four-year starter at quarterback in Brandon Rouse. You bring those JV kids together with a player like Rouse and you have a good team.

I'll believe it when I get up there and don't see him on the field. We've been practicing all week, preparing like he's going to be there.