Jerry Glanville Quotations

we're going to have to bring all five stones. We can't stop them with just one stone.

We let them know we're working on Alabama's stuff, and they know they have to do things exactly right. We can't compete against Alabama if we make mental errors. They have too good athletes.

We always had games that didn't count and you worked your way through mistakes, ... Unfortunately, our games count.

We deserve no credit as coaches. We didn't have anything to do with it. I promise you it was all the players. We were just watching.

When you're 17 years old, you're just thinking about girls.

We're giving him three days off, and hopefully on game day he wakes up and just feels better. On the film, he was limping real bad and was not able to run like he can.

Mouse tried to pick up my bag, but he had a hard time, it was so heavy. He said, 'I know what's in there. Film.' I probably do a minimum of 4 hours of film every day. I look at prospects for 2007 every day.

One thing you learn in football, you waste your time worrying about injuries because they're going to come.

No griping. No complaining. No one asking, 'Why me?'

I don't know the guy and I don't think I've ever had a conversation with him. But I know he's a great coach. The film is his resume. He has a great resume.

For some reason, they didn't ask me back. I guess my invitation is lost in the mail.

I don't think you could find a rookie that has more football awareness. Mentally, he is not a rookie.

He has enough ability to be an excellent player. Unfortunately, he's been hurt the last couple of years.

He got the injury, and he couldn't do anything. And then when he came back, he couldn't hit good. If you're not going to hit, you're not going to play. The last couple of games his knee was better and he was hitting better.

We totally threw out everything that we've ever done. So, if they read this article, nothing they've seen will ever be seen again,

We've got to get the third light (on the scoreboard) in case they hit a hundred.

I always built the defense around outside linebackers that could pressure the passer,

I said the next time he gets that penalty he should go immediately to the admissions office and get his transcripts so he can transfer. We won't have that.

I was honored he asked me, but I didn't feel bad about turning him down. Woody turned me down as a player. He rejected me.

June was a quarterback, but he went to all of my meetings. He liked what we did, and he studied it.

Will we get them? The percentages won't be high. But you have to let them know you want them. We're showing them we have a strong interest.

We were a 17-point underdog (against Houston). For pro football, that's huge.

We're all so much better than a year ago. We're coming down running. We wanted to get there a year ago, but I think we can now. I can tell already everybody is light years from where we were.

We could hit everybody who didn't start (on offense).

We get to do what we do best in his stadium. That gets the players motivated.

You make your biggest improvement your second year and I think we're going to make a leap.

When coach Bryant called me, I really could only catch every third word. He was hard to understand, especially on the telephone, because of his accent.

We've changed with the times, ... but the heart of what we do is still the same.

You have to be ready for anything. Working hard is the one thing you can control.

The only thing I asked (Jones) is if I had to wear a shirt with a flower on it, ... I didn't look at last year's defense.

When you haven't played, you can't afford to miss any time. He needs to be out there.

With his ability we're going to look at him at both spots. We haven't done anything yet, but just watching him last year I think he can help us at both places.

What's happened is all recruiting has changed. By the time you were ready to offer scholarships, the University of Texas was already done (recruiting). Georgia was done. Florida was done. All of the big schools were done. We had to change our program and our philosophy.

Being an underdog by one point or 50, it doesn't matter. I'm glad we are an underdog. Underdogs have more that they can achieve. They have more enjoyment if they're able to climb to the mountain top.

Even if I get home at 2 or 3 in the morning, things are still jumping. I usually just get something to eat and watch the waves come in.

Thank God it worked out and I didn't have to pay his salary. He was making about 20 grand a year.

Pro wise, ... you thrive on it. I told the team, 'I hope they all stand and boo. If they boo us, that means you've accomplished something.' In the pros, our teams fed off the animosity of the crowd to make you play better. That was the fun of playing on the road. We actually played better.

Our defense is only as good as the nose plays. If the nose doesn't play any good, the defense isn't any good.

No question, we've been doing a lot of studying.

You've got to stop their weapons and they have weapons everywhere. You have to have all weapons accounted for. I think we're ready to go.

You miss a week, you go to the back of the bus. He didn't look like how he did when he left. Everybody is ahead of him. I'm ahead of him. You can't miss a week and not be able to run and then try to be where you were. It's not going to happen. The best thing is he's very conscientious. I didn't say unconscious. But he's about one-third as good as he normally is.

The year never bothered us. Sometimes if you're a senior, all your experiences have been bad. You're better off having no experience.

You don't want to recruit a guy who has to change two, three planes to get here. You can get on a plane in Chicago and get here (directly). You can be in Dallas or Houston and fly right here. That's a different recruiting than asking a player from Pennsylvania. He has to stop in Chicago and change planes. You don't recruit Pennsylvania. You don't recruit to Tidewater Beach because the kid from Virginia has to fly to Atlanta first. But the kid from Atlanta can fly non-stop. I look for cities where it's a non-stop flight.

They're just the total package. They have good athletes at all 11 positions, they're well coached and they've been playing together.

They're shifting to get an advantage on you. Their shift is not gingerbread for the crowd. They're not shifting so the crowd thinks they're cerebral. They shift a guy to one side, and if you don't have him covered, they'll get him the ball.

It's fast for everybody. It'll be a fast game.

I told them, 'Why not do 20 of these in a row today?' ... It was the players deciding to do it without mental errors. I prayed to Jesus Christ to try to let them play mentally like they practiced. If I had any help at all, it was asking God not to win (or) not to play good, but let the players play like I knew they could play mentally.

That quarterback, No. 11, he can play some yard-ball. And the offensive line does a good job of sorting things out and blocking things.

That (jersey number) 45 (Moe) is unbelievable. I can take 10 scholarships and not come back with a 45. I could come back with 10 guys and nobody would play like 45. That's unbelievable. That speaks volumes for people on the island.

Once a coach, always a coach. I don't think it ever leaves you. When I was a television analyst, I would study both teams and prepare a game plan, just as I did when I was coaching.

not only important to them, it may be passionate to them. That's what you really need. I can see where it becomes important to another guy every day. I can see where it becomes passionate to a different person some days. When it becomes passionate to 11 players, you're different from the rest of the teams. We're trying to get in that direction.

an upbeat tempo. They keep coming and coming and coming. You'd better be ready to play in a hurry. We're going to have to make defensive calls twice as fast as we've made 'em. We're going to have to get in and out of the huddle twice as fast. They create a lot of problems.

I'm thrilled to be here. If June wasn't here, then I wouldn't be here.

I had 150 days to prepare for them. What worked? Not much.

If you're going to full-press, bump and run, he's probably the best we've got.

I never watched them play last year. I didn't want to have any opinions, ... Last year is over. It's never been brought up.

He can be a great player in this league if he learns how to say two words: "I'm full."

You run the football for toughness. You run the ball to tell your opponent that you're as tough as they are. But you throw the ball to ring the bell.

I haven't heard from Elvis since his daughter married Michael Jackson. I think it killed him.

If you're a pro coach, NFL stands for 'Not for long.

If he'd have got to 3 and 4, he'd have been fine, ... But you had to get past 1 and 2.

I couldn't believe it when I learned some of the guys were walk-ons.

and he does everything we ask him to do.