Lloyd Carr Men Quotations

I don't worry about the polls, but I think any time you're ranked high it's a compliment to your players and your program and it's challenging and we look forward to trying to do better. We have our own goals and they can't be any higher than anybody else's goals for us.

I think because of the fact that both of those men were ADs, as well as the football coach, we didn't play Notre Dame for a long time.

I'll keep my comments to those players who are here. I assume they'll all come back.

Defensively, it's become an assignment game. It's had an unbelievable impact.

He has a tremendous attitude. He's very optimistic. He's very positive.

I can't imagine the excitement that Larry Foote is going through. He went to high school at Pershing, then to have a great career here.

There's a lot of great athletes, skilled athletes that are returning punts, ... The one thing I've seen in recent years at the college level is a tremendous and significant change in special teams play. The time spent obviously has increased in that phase of the game, giving those skilled athletes the opportunity to make big plays in the kicking game.

Antonio is a great athlete and a guy who has tremendous upside. He had a wonderful freshman year if you consider some of the nagging injuries he had. Yes, it will be a significant loss if we lose him.

I knew in my heart this team had tremendous motivation. They worked extremely hard going back to the way that season ended a year ago.