Dan Hawkins Quotations

You don't like playing against your friends because someone's going to wind up (losing),

We're so much into getting better and not looking at the product and investing in the process,

We're so much about that. What I've tried to do a little bit, and part of this is for my own good because I'm very much like that, is to be able to walk away from the locker room after the game and go, 'All right. We won!'

We're going to try a few things to try to clean his mechanics up a little bit. He's capable of really banging it, and he's not doing bad. We're trying to get him to that next level of consistent distance, consistent hang (time) and consistent direction.

When we get into fall, we'll have a group of guys that contribute. And those guys will all be lumped in there.

We're going to have to get this fixed (by Congress),

We're really big on songwriting and getting the best arrangements for songs. Once you've got the songs you can do whatever you want.

We know he is a really good player and he's a fast and physical guy and as he gets more reps and gets more comfortable, you are going to see him be much more productive.

We're highly underrated as a conference, I don't think there's any question about that, ... The variety is unbelievable. Coaching in our conference, you're going to see the spectrum, and that's part of what makes it fun.

We've taken a couple of knocks in the in the head, and I fully expect us to rally.

When you can't get the ball in the end zone, you've got to give the fans something.

When we started off it was all nervous energy and we probably played everything twice as fast as we do now.

When there's noise going on down here, I hear it at my house, too. There's no other solution. We're going to play in some loud, noisy places, and that's the only way to recreate it.

Life isn't about being fair. It is what it is. Both teams have played mid-week games, we've played at 9 in the morning, Thursdays, Fridays. I don't think the fairness issue plays into it.

My favorite is still the one that I started off with, which is a Les Paul Standard. I've played that at every gig I've ever had. And that's my starting point in the studio.

(Riddle) has a tremendous amount of passion for it, ... A lot of guys out there don't want the stigma of being a special teams coach. They see themselves as an offensive coordinator or a defensive coordinator.

I would have loved to have had the win for the seniors. In this profession, it's all about winning. Boise State football is in great hands. The future is so bright.

I don't get into semantics. The wind will always blow. It's always going to be hot or cold. You just have to go out there and play.

I can just as easily see a scenario where we're 2-0 and everyone's booking their tickets to the Rose Bowl,

Fundamentally we did some good things. We've got something to build on going into the summer we'll continue to get a lot better.

For us, the exposure on TV and the ease and ability to travel here is pretty impressive. I think you'll see this thing continue to grow.

I always tell my players, 'I want you to be abnormal,'

He has a lot of moxie, he really does. He had a great attitude about it. He's determined and vilified enough to get after people but humble enough to know it's not always going to go his way.

He has a lot of moxie, he really does, ... He had a great attitude about it. He's determined and vilified enough to get after people but humble enough to know it's not always going to go his way.

He gets it to the right guy. He finds the guys that are open, gives them the opportunity to catch and run with it. It's going to be difficult to stop these guys.

We're probably a little stronger on defense than we are on offense right now. But we're very capable on offense.

When I need to nail that riff to the cross, Marshall will always provide the hammer!

Guys are coming along, they're right with us mentally and buying into all that stuff, and that's great. But we're not anywhere in the same area code when it comes to execution. That will come.

(Guy) has a lot of energy, a lot of passion. He's a good coach. He'll get 'em lined up, get 'em playing hard. He's a fiery guy, and he's a very good X-and-O guy.

He's been really working on that. We put a big premium on catching the ball, and unfortunately that's something he didn't do on the second one.

We make one of those catches, we probably score and make it 38-7, ... and it's probably on and you're trying to keep it from being 60-7.

He didn't want to play against us (Boise State). Unfortunately a couple of schools (that he liked) would have played against us.

It came down to one play against a very good football team. They made the play and we didn't. I would have loved to have a win for seniors and the effort they put forth but I told them they can hold there heads up I was proud of them.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I thrive on proving myself. I think there is a certain side in all of us that wants to get comfortable, and not that there is anything wrong with that. What I think it really gets down to is challenge and opportunity versus doing what you have been doing.

I though he was a good player. His JC (junior college) coach was going 'Hey I got a quarterback' and I said 'yeah I know, but we don't need a JC guy.' It's good he landed on his feet.

I though he was a good player, ... His JC (junior college) coach was going 'Hey I got a quarterback' and I said 'yeah I know, but we don't need a JC guy.' It's good he landed on his feet.

I think we raised about 20,000 pounds. There was a live performance thing so we thought we'd donate the equipment for an online charity in Britain. I hated to part with my guitar, but it was for such a great cause.

I thought Quinton was a little tentative in there and I think that is the nature of him being new back there. I don't care if guys make mistakes, I just want them to play and not be afraid to fail.

I think we're trying to spread the love around a bit and get guys involved and use guys where their talents are the best. That's the benefit of having a good team, a good well-rounded team.

I think that definitely has to be the goal. To me, there are only two types of class - first and none. You're either trying to be the best, or you're not.

It has been awesome for me (at Boise State)...at the same time, Christopher Columbus set sail once, and everyone said he was crazy. Coach (Petersen) does things the right way and he cares about the kids. That makes it easier for me (to move on).

It is my fault, ... It is my fault. I'm the guy in charge. I'm the guy who's gotta fix it.

I was always fascinated by toys, and I just never outgrew it,

Loads of computer graphics equals a terrible video in my book.

I was very fortunate to be able to get him here,

It does bring issues. It's not like being somebody else on this team. As long as we're playing OK, things will be fine. If he's not playing well, he'll get a hard time from you folks (the media). People will say he's only playing because he's the coaches' kid.

I might actually have them pull that house around the track.

We're a long ways away, execution-wise . . . We've got a lot of work to do over the summer and in fall camp to get ready for this thing.

We can watch every team play one game. (But) obviously, I can go to all my kid's games. I can go to as many as I want. That's not only the Bishop Kelly kids but whoever they play,

We are not so smart in this game that a guy that has great athletic ability or skills can't be utilized on the other side of the ball.

You have to anticipate more sprint out in the package. The system is probably going to be largely the same with a few more tricks.

To have a player of his caliber stay is important to our football team. His affection for (CU) and Buffalo football is awesome.

We still haven't played Madison Square Garden. That's a benchmark. Something will have gone seriously wrong if we don't play Madison Square Garden for this album.

You look at them physically. They don't have a lot of small guys. They don't have a lot of skinny guys. That's the Southeastern Conference. You have a lot of talent, a lot of depth, a lot of those people on the roster.

We use about 40 personnel groups on offense per game. I want every player on this team to feel valued and loved. If they don't, how are they going to be motivated?

There have been some scars, but we'll get over that. So, let's throw a little 'Hawk Love' out there and let's get going.

We run up to forty personnel sets per game. My feeling is that we've got to find a way to get a guy into the game and let him do what he's best at.

We're trying not to get caught up in the highs or lows, and trying to focus on the things we can control. Nobody likes losing, especially these guys or coaches, but we understand we've got to play better and cleaner.

We're real people and we're a band that's been playing on the scene for a long time. We've made a lot of friends, and one enemy we've always had was the NME. They've always basically slated us and they've basically never ever written about the music.

There are always outside pressures trying to convince you that today is the most important day in the history of the planet, but that's not always the case. Yes, there is a lot riding on this Georgia game. But for us, we have these watershed moments about five times a season.

When you have those questions ... or last year when they asked, 'Did it surprise you that your team did so well?' No, it didn't surprise me. We kind of reload every year -- and we try not to assume anything.

We love this location in the heart of Fishers because it is along a busy 116th Street, but it also is surrounded by neighborhoods,

We need to clean things up and get better.

We watched Wisconsin pound it on them. We felt really good about our offensive line and our running backs, and we felt we could take it to 'em in the running game.

You bet there is. It's called hard work, determination and preparation. There's a lot of work to be done.

You can muck around with different guitars for certain bits, but you have to have your own sound. That's your benchmark, that's your sound. I also play a Black Beauty. It sounds amazing.

We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

The reason I showed it was there's a lot of guys going 'Like no way.' There's a way. I'm trying to get them to train their minds right. You can do it.

We've got a long career ahead of us and it's going to be great. Trust me.

You have to keep going. The main attention is for us to stay alive and stay a band. You only really become very successful when you stick together. Just keep going and reaching bigger and better.

We got spanked. Georgia is a very good football team. That had a lot to do with it.

We're going to attack. We're going to play football. We came here to play.

Very talented, I like the way he throws the football,

Boise State has always has a great program and great tradition. We've just been able to keep developing it. . . . It's been a continual rise that way.

Brent Guy has got those guys running around. They're very difficult to defend.

I should make a donation to their favorite charity, because I didn't give 'em their money's worth, that's for sure,

The whole streak thing doesn't mean a lot to me, but when you win three in a row on the islands, that's impressive.

It was a little frustrating because we had two great drives but only six points. That return kicked us back into gear.

I've always said the one key to recruiting is to recruit the mom. So I'm recruiting the mom hard right now.

Ryan's leg started to come around a little bit better at the end of the week. Keating has done a good job in there, and I liked the way he's played. But as Ryan gets healthier, we'll just have to open it up to some competition and see who emerges.

Q is just so doggone speedy. He's one of the fastest guys on our team and to be able to get the ball in his hands with some space is a pretty good thing for our team.

Q is just so doggone speedy, ... He's one of the fastest guys on our team and to be able to get the ball in his hands with some space is a pretty good thing for our team.

After school I moved to London to get involved in music. I took the whole thing very seriously.

The old, nasty crowd noise somehow got lost.

As far as the live shows go, we're not leapfrogging all the smaller venues. We would have bypassed these kind of shows and gone straight to the Arena shows, but we didn't want to.

You're probably within a couple inches of getting going.

This is a story for all Americans, not just for those living in rural and inner city communities. And not just for health centers. We are the canary in the coal mine. We are the ones who can point to what's happening.

They had great energy. That was a result of the way they practiced.

There's a lot of people out there who have seen us once somewhere in a pub or heard our songs late night on radio. We'd done four years of it before we'd even released a single. It's put us in good stead.

There's a side of me that goes out to him, because I know he's got to answer that question (about beating Boise State), and I know that's not fun. We don't get into (the streak). We never talk about that. That's not part of what we do at all.

There's an opportunity to kind of go, 'OK, we're finally home,' and Portland State, they did a nice job (in a 41-14 season-opening loss) against Oregon State.

There's an ancient Chinese saying that goes something like this. All you need is Hawk love.

It's just not an easy schedule for us. We have to embrace that and be able to hold hands with the beast.

It's a very ugly and tragic situation all the way around,

Football's about having fun. Playing defense, you've got to be aggressive. I know it's easier said than done, but you can't be afraid to make a mistake. ... I thought they had more fun, they played more loose, they were more aggressive, and consequently they were more effective.

It's a lot easier when all you have to do is just punt.

It's been awesome for me. I'm very fond of my time here. At the same time Christopher Columbus set sail once and people thought he was crazy. Sometimes in your life you have to be able to do that a little bit, and that's what I'm doing.

The nice thing for our defense is they have to face the same thing every day in practice.

Even when you do double-cover him, he goes and gets it.