Brian White Quotations

When you think you've seen everything in college football you haven't. This finish is as incredible, unpredictable and as unfathomable as they come.

One of the things that impressed me the most was his leadership. That's one of the things I'm trying to take over with the spot up in the air is becoming a more vocal leader as opposed to in the past where I've tried to lead more by example.

My ambition has always been to give them good opportunities and if coming into the family business suited them, then great.

I'm always very cautious in comparing backs to other players, because I believe each person has their own independent personality. I don't want to say he's Reggie Bush, because he isn't. He's Brian Calhoun. And I wouldn't trade him for Reggie Bush.

I felt pretty good out there; I felt I had a firm grasp of what's going on. Obviously, there's things I need to work and improve on - making quicker reads, being faster with my feet.

For various reasons and excuses we were missing a lot of players and won this game with a lot of young kids on the field. It's a good feeling.

He has a very live personality that very positively impacts a football team. This is a physical game. If you can't watch the way he plays and have admiration for the pounding he absorbs in a football game and appreciate the way he approaches his performance, then you should be playing something else.

He loves playing football. He enjoys being on stage. Saturday afternoon for him is Broadway.

What I hope to change, and what I believe will happen, is the execution will be better one extra year into what we're trying to get achieved. That should be significant. We do have a solid foundation, but when you implement a new offense, particularly one that is as intricate and complicated as the West Coast offense, it takes time. You will see tremendous strides and progress from year one to year two.

He's been as enjoyable a player as I've had the privilege to coach, just from a standpoint of personality, accountability and certainly performance. He's just one of those really special people.

Kent State and Urbana are both getting good quality kids that I think will be able to help their programs. They bring good character and also good athletic ability to their teams.

I saw Chris as a big, physical back. Obviously, the people in high school had a hard time tackling him. He had good speed, not great speed. (We) wanted to give him a shot (at tailback) and see if lightning would strike twice.

I was excited. I enjoy being on the sidelines because you really get the flavor of the game. I've always enjoyed being down there.

We are definitely younger in that position than anywhere else on the team. But the way they have been practicing, this will be a strength for us, along with attack.

When I got off work, I drove by and there was no one out here. So, I drove home and came back.

Upper Arlington is the real deal. They have a strong offense. They're only getting better as the season goes on. They're coming off a win against Thomas Worthington, which is supposed to be much-improved, and they blew them out. We know that they are going to come into this game with a lot of confidence. They lost to us the last two years in a row, and I know that they are going to be highly motivated.

We're trying to stretch the defense and get them to run (laterally),

We're young, with not much varsity experience and not very deep, so I have to be realistic but we've given good effort, which is where you always want to start.

You have to read down linemen to get to your assignment. You have to read first-level indicators to get to second-level blocks. Then you have to react if your guy disappears, what are you going to do? Who are you going to block?

The township did a study of its own prior to opening station 2. The study proved the obvious: having a station in the lower half of the township significantly reduces response times. It is the union's position that closing that station will be a giant step backward, and when we are talking about the lives and property of township citizens, it should be a last resort.

I've never worked on the same staff as Chris. This is pretty exciting to share this. I'm very friendly with the Stoops family - Mark, Bobby and Mike - and they've always talked about what an unbelievable joy it is to be able to share what you love to do with your family members.

It would be way premature to suggest any particular store in any particular community.

Prep has a great program and a lot of numbers. They were just plain and simply better than us.

Our family has had a very difficult week, as we've tried to come to terms with the enormity of the loss of both Steve and Lauren.

A fund could have the greatest track record in the world, but if the portfolio management team that posted that track record is no longer running the fund that history is basically irrelevant.

Do you know why there's so much air in potato chip bags?

Coach (Brian) Atkins runs a really good program at Branford. I think our biggest problem against Branford was that we ran out of gas.

That showed what a great organization we had and being part of a plan is all about. Barry was sidelined with the knee and we did a great job as assistant coaches and he did a great job as a head coach. The players - everyone bought into the plan.

They had people fit in the right spots. They did a nice job of game planning the run against us. They were going to make sure our quarterback and our receivers were going to beat them today and our quarterback and receivers did.

It's been an unbelievable 11-year run. To have it finish like this, the way our guys competed and played a complete football game, was unbelievable.

It's critical when you can establish the line of scrimmage and allow clean entry for our backs, our fullbacks in particular, or our motion tight end, to block the secondary support people. It makes all the difference in the world. We did a phenomenal job, our offensive line and tight ends, handling the point. It showed.

Its weird, your lungs are working, there's no, no air's coming in. Yea, they can't generate the strength to get the air in.

It's very unusual. It's an allegory, basically. There are a lot of layers of meaning. It's a story about living and being a human being.

In five days of practice, he did some pretty amazing things. He's one of the most natural runners, the most physical (freshman) in five practices I've ever seen.

I know the benefits of being up in the press box,