Sylvester Croom People Quotations

... We've got guys on our teams whose homes are gone, and everything they've got is gone, ... Most went at least 24 hours before they could even find out if their people were OK. To do what they did this week shows that we've got some great young people on this football team. I have so much respect for them. I don't know if I could have done it.

I have a great deal of respect for people who stay in a program without the benefit of a scholarship and go through the grind every day, just hoping for that one time when they are able to put a uniform on and play in the college game. There are a lot of guys around the country who do that, and you have a great deal more respect for those guys than the guys who play on scholarship.

We are going to run it. We are going to get people in here who can run it. We are going to get protection. We are going to get receivers in here who can catch the football. We are going to run that offense. It is the offense I believe in, and it is an offense that I know works.

I want him to make people afraid. I want to put fear into them. If he's hungry and plays with some attitude, ain't too many people who are going to deal with him. ...

The game is not about me, ... It's about the players in the game. It's about the game. All this other stuff sells newspapers and sells ads on TV and keeps people interested, but it all comes down to the game.