E. O. Wilson Guys Quotations

We've got the attitude back that we needed, ... but that attitude is not going to line up and run against 10 guys in the box every game.

You lose that edge. You lose that sharpness. That's the thing I'm trying to find. It's not like I'm going to keep on doing it until I find it. The more I pitch, the more it's going to come. It's what these guys did in Spring Training.

He's one of those guys you always have to know where he is in the red zone. He scores a lot of touchdowns, catches a lot of balls. Maybe he's not going to get the big yardage, but he gets first downs.

I don't know if we (the defense) have any expectations. We just want to go out there, play our defense, play hard and play sound football. I don't think there are expectations. That's for you guys (the media). That's not for us. We just go out there and do what we do.

He stood in our end and watched his guy score after like three guys had blocked shots, ... I just said, 'That's enough.' He'd seemed indifferent and I had to grab his attention. He needed to be kicked in the butt and he got it. He got some pressure from his teammates to back up the stuff I was saying, and to his credit, he's played hard ever since. And that's including practice, which is important, too.

It's good when you qualify a relay because then they feed off each other. Those four guys were always able to fire each other up. (In Canton) Justin tried to get some strength from his buddies on Westerville North and St. Charles, but it's not quite the same thing.

A lot of the guys after the big weekend wanted Monday off, but we decided to stay with it and keep working on schedule so we don't fall into that trap of just going through the motions. We have to keep getting better.

We've got to look at our mind-set, our demeanor and how we approach it. They are very capable players that have played numbers of games for years and have played well here. We have a problem with the performance, but not a problem with what guys can do.

Our guys are really excited about starting the spring. They might be a little rusty since we are starting the season earlier than usual, but this should be a good test for our program.

I feel like we've got eight guys we can count on, and typically that's what every NFL team has live in every game, ... With those eight guys, we've got four tackles, we've got five guards and we've got three centers in that combination of eight guys. We've got some combinations.

We're the guys who can't drink liberally anymore.

It's definitely a good sign. With what you have seen in the past with guys with this problem, it's great that the surgery went well and it wasn't as intrusive at it could have been. We'll be glad to have him back.

Those guys have a pretty good track record of going into mature fields and cutting costs and raising production,

I want people to know when they saw me they saw the real deal. That all these years hanging around all these old guys have been very educational for me. That's why I don't like seeing people treat the music the way they do. I get violent about it; it's so upsetting to me.

They've been in the NCAA tournament and played deep into the NCAA tournament. We did not take those guys lightly; we just did not get the job done.

We all did the same job we lived with each other. Some of these guys are with each other more than there family. You can't help but create that bond. It is a family.

These guys have been pointing to winning the state since the summer.

Maybe we're going to be a team that's a little more run-oriented maybe through time, ... We can use those young guys who are big and can lean on you and it snowballs into physical play.

All we did is open a can of worms and show people: 'Hey, bring it to Oklahoma. We've got to come out there and answer our bell and take the fight to these guys this week and from there hopefully have some success and maybe get this thing turned around and get back to playing in a strong way and having a chance to have a great year.

Two weeks before, 15 guys will commit and I'm out. But if I can keep shooting 64 here, things will change quick.

Bottom line those guys (quarterbacks) look good when everybody does their job. As a group, up front and across the board, we need to play better and help those guys.

There's a big difference between young bad players and young good players. There's not much you can do if they don't have much talent. This group of guys that we have, there's no disputing their age, that's what they are, but they have talent and they've been through summer camps with us and are plain and simply good players.

Having Mike Anderson back, that's big. We really missed him last year. And having Ron Dayne, that makes us better in short-yardage right there. It's the will, if a guy wants it, he's going to get it. If the guys up front help him, the back can do the rest himself, and we have those kind of backs.

You always want to go after the young guys. You never really want to go after the experienced guys like (Broncos cornerback) Champ Bailey. But we went after Champ a couple times and were pretty successful against him. But we were more successful against the rookie.

You get pressure on the quarterback, get guys in his face, that's big.