Karl Dorrell Good Quotations

We still kept our composure and we just tried to reduce our thinking early in the game. Initially, we just wanted to get one good series. Then it was just one good play.

We're getting our players ready to play a good Northwestern team. It's going to be a great challenge for our program.

We ran into a buzz saw. We had a great week of preparation and felt good about ourselves. It was just a point in time in the season, probably, that things weren't going to click for us as well as in the past. We saw some things that were uncharacteristic of how we've been playing all season.

He's a very good football player. I've always said that and I'm very excited he's a member of our team. I've always recognized the great things he does for us. I saw him in high school and he was doing similar things.

Our team can move the football. We've done it against some very good teams in our conference. We also know how good the Big Ten is. For them to have success in the Big Ten, we know our hands are full.

We're a good team, but we're not good enough to make any claims,

We had an extra day and we've gotten a lot of good work in, ... We're ahead of schedule after today. Things look good.

We're still very capable of being a good defense, ... We have some issues we need to clean up, but we think we can get there.

We don't anticipate anything, but we want to make sure he's in good shape.

Wesley Walker looks good out there, ... Our depth at linebacker is getting better, but we'd like to play him some against Washington.

We got some recognition in our program, which was good to see, from a national standpoint,

We had some good continuity and flow early in the game.

This is something we needed to do to prove that we are a good team, ... We've still got a lot to prove. This was just one step.

There were times tonight when this team could have folded its tent. We're not as good as we think we are. I told them at halftime that it was gut-check time, that they needed to show what this team was all about. They finally stepped up and made big plays when they needed to. I was very pleased with their enthusiasm and effort at the end.

It's good to be 1-0 for the first time in three years.

I'm not predicting anything but for us to go out there and play to our potential and that's what we're gearing ourselves to do. Who knows which way the game is going to go and how it's going to flow and what's going to happen? We need to go out there and play good football, play to our potential and keep building on the positive things we've done in the season.