«I appreciate the fans and all that kind of stuff. It's kind of fun to hear it, ... as just another football game.»

«I'm not sure they believed me, but they didn't fire me,»

«I still haven't gotten that little something out of my system that I'm still not a kid going to a football game. I'm excited,»

«I wouldn't get carried away, ... We've got a long way to go. We've got some tough games ahead for us.»

«I want the guys to realize this is a game,»

«To me, I'm excited about the game... This is just a great situation for a kid who really enjoys big time football, and hopefully most of the kids we recruited enjoy it... I'm excited, and I would suppose our kids are excited. Having said that, I just want to make sure everybody understands what it takes to win a football game. Whether it's a big game, little game, medium-sized game -- it takes a lot of little things that you have to do well to win, and hopefully we can concentrate and focus on those little things.»

«They appear to be a little bit stronger than we are physically across the board, ... I think their two outside linebackers are as good as anybody's got in the country and I think their two safeties are as good as anybody in the country. In that sense, we're probably comparable. They scheme a little differently; they're a much more blitz team they are. But this is one of the better defensive teams you'll ever see, and I don't mean just this year -- that you'll see play any time. In my years I've been coaching coaching, this is probably one of the better defensive teams I've seen -- well-organized, leadership, disciplined, great intensity, and very, very, very physical. If we're comparable to those, I'd feel very good.»

«You start with the quarterback,»

«The kicking game is part of the fact that we got licked. It didn't necessarily cost us the game,»

«There's nothing we can do specifically... because you don't know what they're going to do. They may change their whole return scheme. We're just going to have to be alert, play with the better people, get our kids aware of the fact that Ginn... he's a great, great football player... a one-play guy that can turn the game around... We're going to try and do a good job, making sure he can't hurt us, but whether we can do that or not, we'll have to see.»