Andrew Whitworth Quotations

He's a fleet-footed guy, a really smart kid who puts himself in the right places. But it will be important for us to make the game easy for him, and that means keeping the pressure off.

I think that any time that you have this many returning starters, you have higher expectations. I think as individuals we have high expectations for our team just because we know the character of guys we have here and what we're capable of.

I think it's neat to give the band something to enjoy and hang around for after the game. It's a way to give our thanks to the student section and being able to say that to them. It's a good start to a good tradition.

Last year, I thought they played us really well. They played us pretty physical. I think they'll give us a good game. I know they'll be all built up for this one. It's a very big home game for them.

It definitely turned out to be the SEC showdown everyone thought it would be. They're a great team going at you. It's a tough loss for them but a great win for us.

It definitely turned out to be the SEC showdown everyone thought it would be, ... They're a great team going at you. It's a tough loss for them but a great win for us.

I think LSU is becoming a dominant and prominent team again.

I thought last year they played us pretty well. They have looked pretty good this year. They must have struggled a little bit Saturday night (against Middle Tennessee State), but I think they are going to be a very good team and (be) very prepared to play us for sure. It's a game that we are going to have to be extremely focused. It's going to be another tough road game.

Year by year, they've been getting better and better. I think they're a good program. I know they've gotten some flak for not being any good for a long time, but they've been getting better that last two years.

Part of my job being a leader and captain of the team is not just to play well and lead well but find a way to make everybody around me better.

A yoga session is harder than a football practice easily for me. Probably in some ways just as intense, not from a physical standpoint of hitting ,but from a game, the intensity is the same.

I think yoga is like anything else, it's a workout in the sense you are going to get what you put into it.

I don't think it's a coincidence this happened. God does things for a reason ... It's a good message for back home.

I've got two contracts in my life: One with my wife and the other to protect Andy Dalton.

We had 20 guys that, at one point, didn't know where their families were or questioned whether they had a home.

This team is unique to have won 10 games in a season like this. The way we were able to persevere through it was amazing.

This was a bunch of craziness. There were definitely skirmishes. I don't know what happened.

It was unbelievable. It was wonderful just to get a chance to come in here and play. I don't have too many of them left so I'm cherishing each one.

They take a lot of shots at you and bring a lot of pressure. Sometimes, teams have picked up stuff and gotten a quick throw out. When they bring all that pressure, we'll have to be prepared for that.

It was during Auburn preparation. It was a Tuesday. We were getting ready for practice. Around lunch time, people started watching it and freaking out. We had a big team meeting about it. It was definitely something traumatic. It was really tough to put football aside.

It's a different situation. It's not every day that you have a winning team, and a lot of seniors coming back, and a new coach.

It's still a little bit of hectic times right now, but I think guys have handled it well. They're kind of growing used to it.

It's something we've been working on and preparing for. I'm not too sure how good we'll be at it, but we got the words down at least. I'm not an American Idol contender, I'll be humming along with everyone else.

They just seemed to want it more than we did. We've got to get back to the drawing board.

Anytime you play Tennessee, you're going to get that. A lot of big, big linemen. They play with big linemen on both sides of the ball, so I think that up front is going to be the real key this weekend.

I hope the next five years will be a little smoother.

You've been doing it one way your whole career. Then you have to change. But that's the way the year went.