Andy Gray Team Quotations

It was a shock. We were told not to expect Calvin until the end of February. It's a tremendous boost because he makes his teammates better.

The number of teams from outside our area that came down here far exceeded our expectations. With that many teams and over 4,000 friends and family supporting the teams, this has become a major event.

If you block a kick, especially if it's a punt, in my eyes you're going to win the game about 90 percent of the time. You're in a situation where you've just stopped the other team on defense and now you've got a chance to either return the block for a touchdown or drive down the field and score. It can make for a 14-point swing. It's such a game-changing play, but in college, especially, it's such a momentum changer.

Special teams are just as important as the offense or the defense. Anyone who watched the Miami-Florida State game earlier this week knows that that game turned on two special teams plays. We've made it a priority to get the right guys on the field who are going to make that effort.

Our goal is to keep improving. When we play a team like this we've got to be well-prepared. We weren't as prepared as we should have been to handle a team like this.

If you gave Arsene Wenger eleven players and told him to pick his team, this would be it.

I don’t know if Barcelona have ever gone to a place like the Britannia Stadium and suffered the kind of onslaught from Tony Pulis’ team of long throws and free-kicks or been up to a place like Blackburn and been beaten up by their long ball into the box.