Famous Quotes & Sayings

We sent them to the New Orleans Bowl with a losing record.

David Butler

To me this millipede is more the kind of thing that Tom is famous for. It is a little weird, it's cute, and it's a little threatening, this giant bug that could eat you -- but it's also wearing little shoes and a bowler hat. It's whimsical and frightening at the same time.

To me, this is as good as a BCS game. Everybody will be watching us. It's not like one of those rinky-dink bowl games that people don't watch. This is a big-time bowl.

We couldn't be more delighted with the success of Super Bowl XL.

We have used Super Bowls strategically to help get new stadiums built.

We were hoping it would follow the Holiday Bowl tradition of a high-scoring game and a lot of yards gained. The only pattern we've seen in the Holiday Bowl is people don't turn their televisions off.

We were here through all the moves. So this is a big thing. We finally got to play in the Big East and were finally invited to a bowl game. It's amazing. This is something special. We worked hard. We earned it.

Three games in the Valley in the span of a week (Insight, Fiesta and BCS) will bring at least $300 million into the local economy. That's approaching what a Super Bowl would bring, which is in the neighborhood of $400 million.

You know, there's not many of us left from the Super Bowl year, but the five of us that are may have the Super Bowl in mind at some point going into it.

When I first ran for office 15 years ago, I was told that USF had the same economic impact of a Super Bowl every year. But looking at that number, it seems to have tripled.

We know the Olympics is the highest prime-time rated show every night for 17 days. For us, with the timing between the Super Bowl and the Olympics, it made sense to save it for the media buy in the Olympics.

Jerry Angelo

Under the circumstances as they are now, we may never see another coach win three Super Bowls in our lifetime.

We get paid well, but this is what really motivates most of the players. Some guys might worry about the money more. But playing in the Super Bowl and winning a (championship) ring is what it's all about for most of us.

Dave Allen

We get a certain number of them. We have to pay for extra ones for the walk-ons and whatever we get for bowl games.

Dave Allen

We get a certain number of them, ... We have to pay for extra ones for the walk-ons and whatever we get for bowl games.

Dennis Erickson

We want to compete for conference championships and go to bowl games.

We want to have two major bowl games in town. And it's been the luck of this town that we've had high-scoring games.

Zoe McLellan

I'm a big fan of a great glass of red wine and a delicious bowl of pasta made from scratch.

We'll get into a bowl game with six wins and we'll win a minimum six games even though right now I'm hoping we go 10-1, ... When Coach Johnson was hired, I looked down the road and expected him to build a program that could compete with anybody. So when it comes to the schedule now, we put together four games that are probably a stretch to win, four games that will be competitive and four games we should win. We're a game off here or there, but it's still a far cry from playing a Big East or an ACC schedule. That won't happen.

Those were very good football teams. Every year, we'd go to a bowl and the people on the other side would kind of sell us short. I remember the Georgia people kind of chuckled at the farm kids from Ohio and we went out and whipped their butts (21-0) so it was fun.

You have the bowlers and their families coming from all over the state.

To go to a bowl game as part of a BCS conference is a pretty big deal. A lot of things came together to make this happen. I always expect big things to happen.

Ryan Clark

We don't have any stars. We don't have a Pro Bowl player on defense, which I don't think is fair because we definitely have guys who play like it. There's no egos on our team. Everybody wants to play everybody.

When he broke his leg I said my only hope was that he would play in the bowl game. Here he goes and plays in the bowl game and he intercepts a pass and runs it back for a touchdown -- that's tremendous.

Dallas Roberts

I was the guy literally in the chess club who decided to wear a bow tie for the last two years of high school, so I obviously wasn't trying to get the ladies.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To know the Creator and the God of all the universe is to revere Him. It is to bow down before Him in wonder and awesome fear.

We want them to have fun. We have our section leaders hold at least five sectional rehearsals during the summer and we encourage two of those to be totally social such as going bowling or swimming together. This should be a very fun time of their lives and we want to them to enjoy this time.

Jeremy Jones

We want to send our seniors out on top so we're going to treat it like it was the Rose Bowl or the national championship game.

Beth Moore

When the stakes are high, bow down low.

Larry Coker

We'll be excited about going up to Gainesville, and of course it'll be a tremendous thrill to have the Gators in the Orange Bowl again.

Mike Rucker

We'll see when all of the playoffs settle down and the Super Bowl is done. You have some good sets of defensive ends out there and to get where we want to go we'll have to see them. We'll see after the dust clears.

Watching the other bowl games, they've got guys shifting all over the place. Everybody's throwing in new stuff for the bowl game. Hopefully, they'll run what we've been practicing.

Dan Rooney

We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there. This is one of the great moments in the whole history of the league and I've been around a long time.