Thomas Brooks
Thomas Brooks
Thomas Judson Brooks, MBE JPwas a British coal miner and politician who became a Labour Party Member of Parliament. A spiritualist, his main achievement was to lead the successful campaign to repeal the Witchcraft Act 1735...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth7 July 1880
guys nervous
We had some first-game jitters. The guys were as nervous at the beginning.
face field guys handling kids respond shut talk
We talk about handling adversity. Things aren't going to always go your way. We have to face it and respond to it. You can shut down, but that's not what these guys do. They want to win. The kids get out on the field and think they're going to win.
contend excited good grasp guys offense playoff
We will contend for a playoff position, ... The guys are getting a good grasp of the new offense and the defense. We're getting real excited about the season.
guys lost whatever
To go 2-0 would be tremendous. We lost those two (Kendall and Teddy), but these guys will persevere. They'll do whatever it takes.
ability athletic charisma guys hard player respect type work
He has the charisma a quarterback should have. The other guys respect him for his hard work and athletic ability, and for the type of player he is.
came defense guys might rest scoring second sure talked
After the second score, the defense came over and said, 'Coach, they're not scoring again,' ... And sure enough, they didn't. Our guys did a lot of gang-tackling. You might make one or two miss, but the rest of them are coming. And that's the thing we talked about - pursuit.
mistakes won
We won (last week), ... But we know we have some mistakes to correct. But the more we get reps, the better we'll get with our assignments.
athletes capable number
We try to do that. We have a number of athletes capable (of contributing). We don't want to be one-dimensional.
defense line normal thinking
It was very emotional. (Even) at that moment, he's thinking about the team. We told the defense to keep them down there. They were on the one-foot line and they couldn't get their normal distance. We went for the block.
game helps toward win
Each game just helps with our confidence. A win would go a long way toward us making the playoffs.
ball execute move people whenever
Offensively, we can move the ball when we want to, and whenever we have to. I would like to see us execute better and be more consistent. If we want to play with the people in our district, we have to be consistent. We're not there yet.
ball strength wide
We'll try and get our wide receivers the ball more. They're the strength now.
games good maybe
That's two games in a row. Maybe we are pretty good on defense.
came five football good last minutes
We just came out in that last five minutes and started playing. But we have to have that the whole game. When we do that, we're a very good football team. When we don't, we're average.