Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

Bill Cowher

We're going to the Super Bowl to win it, not to just be there.

Jake Long

When we came back from the bowl game, we didn't reach our potential like we should have last year. Weight could have been a part of it, so all the coaches wanted us to drop weight, get stronger, get quicker. We definitely had the intensity to do that this year during winter.

Keith Brooking

We have to get some pressure on Jake, and we've got our work cut out for us in trying to keep a handle of (Pro Bowl receiver) Steve Smith. It's a big job, but if we execute the game plan our coaches drew up for us, we should be OK.

We have to get a win. The bowl game isn't as fun if you don't win. You've got to bring the trophy home.

To play on national television and play in a bowl game, we had to get a special waiver from the NCAA. We weren't accredited yet because we hadn't graduated a senior class.

With us going to a bowl game, they're going to a bowl game. We're just carrying on their legacy. Those are the guys that started it all with their hard work and leadership. It's an honor to represent those guys.

We know we're the first because they put us on the cover of Bowlers Journal.

Lance Henriksen

As a kid, there was a painting of 'Appeal to the Great Spirit' that I would see when I would get oatmeal bowls out of the cupboard. This painting, it was so real to me that it frightened me.

Larry Fitzgerald

Jerry Rice had won two Super Bowls already by the time he got to his ninth year in the league. That's what it's all about: winning that ring.

We did not lose, but this will probably be our worst Super Bowl in five years.

We did it for all the playoff games last season, and pat-downs have been part of the Super Bowl since 2002.

Demetri Martin

I love bowling almost as much as I love not bowling.

Barry Alvarez

We've studied the Bowling Green defense of a year ago, and what they did and their tendencies and their patterns. And we've also studied the Clemson defense as to what they did, what he (Lovett) seems to hang his hat on, and that type of thing. So it's been a little more of a difficult preparation for us.

Carson Palmer

We have a Pro Bowl guy on a rookie, and that's something that makes me lick my chops,

We haven't been to a bowl since 2001, so it's good stuff. It was a lot of bags, sweats, fleece.

We're here to win ballgames. That's why we play this game. The Pro Bowl honor is nice. It's an honor to represent your team, but it's about everybody getting a little extra cash in the form of playoff money at the end of the year. I'll be elated when that happens.

There is a putting green right next to the president's cabin. Most people who have been here talk about the bowling alley. (Clinton) loves to bowl.

There are more men in bowling than women. Right now there's one woman.

We're approaching it as the point of view that it's not a bowl game. It's a national championship game that we've contracted to manage. But we don't know yet what it will look like.

Vince Young

We hope we made a statement to the bowl voters,

Michael Robinson

We didn't win the Rose Bowl or anything. It's just a game. I think we understand that.