Michael Huff Quotations

When you cover the best, you want to keep the stats to know how you did against them.

Nobody gives us a chance to hold them under 50, so I look forward to proving everyone wrong.

Great quarterbacks bounce back and get better. He seems a lot better this year.

I ended up having to buy a new X-Box.

He'll never know, I guess, fully what we go through. But I think he has a lot better understanding.

We've got to kind of stop both of them.

I agree (with Young). It was a lack of leadership. Things started to go downhill and nobody stepped up.

He can start anywhere else in the nation. We know we have to contain him when he's in the game, because he'll line up and run over you. He's quick for a big guy. He'll shake you now and then.

I think it's kind of a new breed of safety. Safeties have to do more than just stay in the middle of the field and hit. Now, they have to cover and blitz and do it all, and that's what I like to do.

I was deep free safety, or I was strong safety in the box, or covering the slot, or outside covering. I was all over the place.

Jimmy's different. He kind of talks all the time. But it's all in fun.

People love to criticize him for being too nice, but he has loosened up around us. Now here we are playing for a national championship. He must be doing something right.

I sure hope so. That's what I've been hearing, anyway.

We had great pressure up front all day.

You hear it in the media, but not in the locker room.

Vince was amazing. What else can I say?

Every day was intense. It just made me a better person on and off the field.

I started wearing them this summer. A lot of our defensive backs and receivers have them too. They've really helped me on the field as far as seeing things better.

Sometimes he'd break into the open field, he'd try to give you a move and try to make you look bad, so it got intense. But if we hit Vince, we probably wouldn't play that Saturday. So we had to back off. Stay away.

Seeing us every day in practice, the chemistry and the way the team is, I feel we are.

Practice was great. We didn't know what to expect coming off of a few days of holiday rest, but everybody got out there with enthusiasm and intensity.

There's always the stereotype that Texas can't win the big game. Until we win a national championship, there's always going to be doubters.

I want the Heisman Trophy winner. I feel I'm the best, so I want to go against the best.

I want to be put in the best situation for our defense to be successful. Whatever coverage area, I'll do it. If it's covering (USC tight end Dominique) Byrd, then I'll do it.

I love making plays. Whether it's hitting somebody across the middle, getting a 'pick' and going back scoring, or blocking a kick. Whatever it takes to help a team, that's what I'll do.

I love getting into the end zone. That's probably my offensive mind-set. I played receiver in high school, and love getting the ball in my hands and scoring.

I love getting into the end zone. That's my offensive-mindedness. I played wide receiver in high school.

In high school, I didn't want to hit anybody. I knew (at UT) I had to be more physical.

In Miami, the weather was beautiful and sunny with palm trees everywhere. I was surrounded by snow and icy weather in Buffalo the next day. I couldn't believe the difference. ... I know I can handle the snow if I end up in Buffalo or Detroit, but I do have to say, the warm and sunny weather in Miami was a welcome sight.

I'm just a competitive guy. I love playing college football and playing against the best. I look forward to the challenge of trying to stop him.

I held him to three for 19, so I guess I had a pretty good day.

Hopefully, I can carry on that tradition. And hopefully, safeties are high draft picks from now on.

You can't take away any one particular thing. If you could, somebody would have beaten them by now.