Gary Patterson Quotations

BYU plays great defense and we'll have to find a way to take the ball game, ... That's how you win in conference on the road. They've moved the football this year and had penalties and turnovers when they got into the red zone. You have to create lost yardage plays to stop them. You have to take the fight to them and not play on your heels.

This is one of those games. If it had gone on for another hour, it would have kept going the exact same way. It was a great ballgame.

Clearly, my member companies condemn the price gouging, and those guilty of price gouging should be punished,

Clint can run right by you and Jimmy can do a lot of things.

We came back here to win two of three, and these are the two I wanted to win. One's for conference and the other is for national respect.

I don't think many people went out of the stadium that day saying it was too long of a game,

I didn't feel it was a slight because I probably would've picked us eighth, ... Obviously, as a coach, you use that as a motivational aspect of, 'The West Coast doesn't know much about us.'

We have received questions from players all over the West Utah, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico since the move was announced. We understand how good the competition is, that we're going to places like BYU to play in front of 60,000 instead of some places in Conference USA to play in front of 6,000. Bigger stadiums. A stronger league. Stronger nonconference scheduling. It's all a big difference for us and yet our kids are very excited.

It's going to be a great ball game. We're very closely matched in lot of ways.

For me, this will probably be the biggest win as a head coach for this program. You've got to know everybody will have ups and downs. This is real important. These are all my kids now that I've recruited. It's good to see them play hard and play in that kind of arena.