Dick Vermeil Priest Quotations

Some people see Priest going out there on Saturday for the first time and say, 'What's he doing?' ... He's poised to have a great season.

That kind of motivation brings tears to my eyes, ... as do thoughts of Priest Holmes playing in week thirteen.

What we want Priest to do is get healthy and get ready to play next year. And we've got to get this football team ready to play. That's the cold, harder part of this business. It just keeps right on going.

Larry Johnson has already carried the load. He knows he can do it. He just doesn't have a Priest Holmes backing him up like he backed up Priest Holmes.

You worry about it not working if you have the wrong kind of people, but they're both unselfish, they really are. Granted, Priest may not have 1,600 yards, but together, they'll have more than that.

I don't want to put so much pressure on him right now as a young player. He will become one of the great running backs in the National Football League just like Priest Holmes did. You become that. But each time he steps on the field he adds credibility to those kinds of credentials.

He has a passion to play the game. He didn't want to come out. He thinks Priest is still sitting on the bench. He's a tough, tough guy. He's been around football all of his life, so he understands all the concepts.

To have that kind of talent on the bench and not give him an opportunity to use it, and maybe wear out Priest a little more, that was the whole thing I was thinking,