Tyrone Quotations

With Tyrone Willingham, the football program is in the right hands. He embodies Notre Dame's core values, and his leadership, character and drive assure Notre Dame's return to its traditional place among the elite national powers.

People want Washington to be noted as a place of integrity and quality and that's what Tyrone brings. We've been in court too much and in the headlines for the wrong reasons.

I fell in love with Errol Flynn and Tyrone Power and Basil Rathbone and Hitchcock and Orson Welles and John Huston.

Hopefully, Tyrone can bring in the same kinds of players Don James had with his staff. If that happens, it won't take long to correct the ship.

It changes everybody's lives. Tyrone will go on and hopefully win the All-Ireland while we've got to go back to lick our wounds." ()

I thought that Tyrone Marshall leaving the game was a big loss for us because I think he was holding the middle of the defense quite well for us. When he left we lost the middle of the defense.

Starting over is already behind us. That's all gone. It all started the day Tyrone was hired.

Today was a really hot day and Tyrone is a really tough course, so I'm real proud of our athletes the way they were able to compete under those conditions.

Tyrone Willingham will do a tremendous job, ... He will represent the school the way it should be represented. Washington is not a good job right now, it's a lousy job. He wouldn't be there if it was a good job. He could build that into a good program. He can do it, and he'll do it the right way.

Tyrone Willingham can't make them a great team with the talent he has. He needs two, three years to get the talent he needs.

Tyrone was great. He's awesome. I wish we had five of him. Even two of him.

Tyrone Moss was phenomenal. He was the big difference in the game.

Tyrone is dangerous. He's a heck of an athlete. Bensalem did some things to take him away.

Tyrone is as classy an individual as there is. He's one of those class individuals that you don't run across very often.

To be so big and so powerful, he's also quick. Tyrone can get moving when he wants to. He's a real tough guy to tackle, and he's always going to fall forward and get that positive yardage. It's always been in him. Before, you've always seen glimpses of it.

When you have somebody knocking at your door and especially with the type of talent that we have at running back, it forces you to elevate your game. Those are things we've expected of Tyrone since he's been here.

We've never talked about a timetable, but both of us are experienced enough to know that things like this don't happen overnight. But at the end of the day we need to be a competitive football team that fits the university's image and its mission and its values. Tyrone will have as long as it takes to make sure that happens.

There's no way Washington can beat Notre Dame, ... No matter how good a guy Tyrone Willingham is, no matter how hard his guys are going to play for him.

The zone (defense) hurt them a little, made them stagnant. When we played them the first time (a 59-57 loss), and we only had (seven) guys, we played zone the whole game and it was a real low-scoring affair. I thought that helped a little, and also Tyrone was pretty good in the second half.

The very first film I ever saw was a pirate movie called 'The Black Swan' with Tyrone Power. And I thought that was great stuff. Of course, in those days, Technicolor was really Technicolor; there was no such thing as desaturation. Everybody looked super suntanned.

There will be some changes, but it depends on your point of view. Some of those plays we tried to work with Tyrone are not going to be available. There may be some other special types of plays we can do with other players, but as far as Tyrone being a triple threat -- because we even kicked around letting him throw a pass -- it's not there.

You're going to win with 4-yard runs, and Tyrone has been able to give that to us.

It is our hope that once Tyrone dons the costume, he will realize that even non-Christians are not offended. And we urge him to read and digest a copy of the First Amendment, preferably while munching on some rancid carrots.

It's a little bit iffy. Tyrone is still a little sore, still being bothered by the leg. We'll see if he's ready to go today or tomorrow. That will tell us a lot more about this weekend. He's not ready to go, let's put it that way.

Not necessarily regret. He sort of helped bring Tyrone in. I think Tyrone's an excellent coach. It just didn't work out, I guess, is the easier way to say it when we had to make a change there in the middle of the year.