J. J. Johnson Football Quotations

More than anything, what hurt us offensively, were third and long a lot, ... It's hard to play football in this league when you're in third-and-long situations, especially when you get down.

Nothing is claimed to have happened at a recruiting party. The 2001 allegation the D.A. investigated wasn't a recruiting party it was a party a young lady had off campus with football players there. I've never been to a recruiting party or a party specifically for recruits.

Lapel's come a long way in the last few years. They're just good. They're solid. They're a good, good football team.

Sometimes in a high-visibility position, a district has to pay a little to retain the employee that they want to keep. Our football program is going in the right direction, and we don't want that to shift into reverse.

Anybody who has watched us practice can see from an athletic standpoint we are as good as we've ever been. We run around a lot better than we ever have. Does that mean these guys are better football players than the ones we lost? We'll find out when the lights come on.

They're a solid football team to play someone our size, ... They've got a lot more talent than we have.

It's 90 percent mental. You don't really have to have a lot of the physical aspects. Some of the kids these days don't really fit into basketball or football so you got to get into bowling.

suggestion that football players, sex parties, as some have coined them, I think is largely inaccurate.

They are the Super Bowl champions, and they set the bar. They are, right now, what the gold standard is in the NFL for football teams. People are looking at them and seeing what they do and trying to emulate them.