Rod Wright Quotations

We're going to talk shutout this week. We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

We're going to talk shutout this week, ... We're going to talk shutout next week. That's just our mentality as a defense.

We want to go out there and dominate.

We're not coming out here to just hang with those guys and hopefully we can win the game in the fourth quarter. We want to dominate. That's not been said about USC.

I don't care about winning big. I just care about winning so we can dominate everybody we play because we're a dominating team. But that's for us. It's not for the AP poll, the BCS or anyone else.

I don't care about winning big, ... I just care about winning so we can dominate everybody we play because we're a dominating team. But that's for us. It's not for the AP poll, the BCS or anyone else.

I better be on the sideline of the Fiesta Bowl next year.

But we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there's going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

Basically, it starts with him. He makes their offense go.

I don't think we're going to have to answer that question this year. We plan on going in there and lifting a lot of weight off (Brown's) shoulders and walking out of that stadium with a smile on our face.

We made the stop, Vince drives us down again and scores and the rest is history. If he had to throw it or he had to run it, he was going to get it done.

I was just as surprised as anybody, ... I didn't know if I was going to make it.

Last year, it was USC-Oklahoma. Before that, it was Oklahoma-LSU. ... Your offense can score a lot of points, but you're not going anywhere without the defense.

Our goals are the Rose Bowl, the Big 12 championship at Reliant Stadium. No one will look at this win and feel satisfied. This was just another step.

Physical, physical, physical. Word on the street is that Big Ten is smash-mouth, hit-you-in-the-mouth physical football. They probably feel like they're going to be physical, and they will be. We have to be smash-mouth right back. If we play like we're supposed to play, there's no offensive line that can handle us.

My mind was like, 'Am I really here, is this really happening?'

You know what they say, don't look back. If you look back, you'll slow down, especially for big guys.

We made a pact that we were going to win a national championship. Now, we need to get it done.

We pride ourselves on getting big stops in the late quarters. This Klein team is so disciplined, and our kids did a good job of showing composure and turning it up defensively.

We want to have fun out here, but we also know that we need to stay focused. We are not here just to participate in things. We are here because we want to win the National Championship and I think that says a lot about how we are going to keep practicing and keep working in preparation for this game.

We want to beat them physically and we want to go out there and just have fun.

We knew if we got that fourth-and-2, that was going to be the ball game.

We knew all we had to do is make that stop. All we had to do was make the stop, and we knew Vince was going to get it into the end zone for us.

Both defenses are facing something they haven't faced before.

Coach said we were going to get back to the basics. We challenged each other to come out and have our best game, to have no mental errors. We got pretty close.

You're always going to have your guys on offense that can make plays,

They played their hearts out. They ran a whole lot of options and the quarterback was able to scramble.

It's not new to us. We know exactly where we're going, and we'll know the atmosphere. We won't be overwhelmed by anything.

For me, it's always been about producing when you get there. Obviously you want to go high. But once you get there, you still have to do the same thing, and that's produce.

It's the game of football and key is to win games and we won the game. Teams are going to struggle with teams, that's just going to happen. It's kind of like you have to blow everybody out and that's not realistic.

It's like a lot of weight has been lifted off his shoulders, and he's just, I guess, having more fun. ... That's the personality of this team. We just have fun. And whenever we have fun, it seems like that's when we play our best.

It just happened so fast. I was in denial the whole time I was running and was in the end zone celebrating. It sunk in after a while, but big guys don't get the ball very often. When we get the ball, we want to get in the end zone.

Everyone is talking about this as USC making history. But if we win on Wednesday, what do we do? I think there're going to be a lot of stories that are going to have to be rewritten.

I've just been doing everything I can, from training to eating right, to be able to show the scouts what I've got. They put you under a microscope and I want them to see what I can bring. The main thing I want to do when I get there is show them how hard I can work.

Not to take anything away from Oklahoma State, but it was just dumb mistakes we made,

If you prepare like that, it can happen. That's our game plan and we're not going to get too overwhelmed by anything and we're going to play Texas football.

He's one of the best in the conference, ... He's great for their offense. He can run the ball, and he's good with screen passes. He's a great back, and he can hurt you if you're not prepared for him.

You could tell everyone was really excited and ready to play. We had the attitude to go out and play our best game.

You won't see the Texas defense play like that again.

You've got to have somebody come through and make plays, ... You have to have game-changers. A sack? That's a game-changer. Plays made in the backfield? Those are game-changers. Turnovers. You're going to see things from us you haven't seen before.

All of the years we've played them, any quarterback they put back there always seems to break the records of the previous quarterback. Their system works well for them.