Lovie Smith Football Quotations

We've seen improvement each day. And it shown, he's given us a taste of it each game that he's played lately the last two football games,

Personally, it hurt when you tell a player his dream has been stopped for a while, but we had to do what was best for our football team and we felt like this was what was best at this time and hopefully it will work out for Marc, too.

He will be contacted, I'm sure. If you're looking for a head football (coach) right now, wouldn't you want to contact him?

Just like we talk about the quarterbacks, some days you're going to have that. 'Peanut' had a great training camp. He hasn't played as well as he can the last couple (games). He'll come back. He's a good football player.

I think they definitely should shop him and get him out of the division. I don't know if that is the case or not. I just know he's an excellent football player. He's caused us to stay up quite a bit trying to defend him.

Last week, we won as a football team and everything went right for us. Today, it felt like the total opposite.

We're a good football team, and I know we'll show that on the field this year. Our goals ... you know what our goals are. We're a good team, here are our goals, let's see what happens.

We needed to get the offense kick-started a little bit. Rex has come from a lot to go down like he did early in the preseason. ... We really liked the energy he brought to our football team when we brought him in.

Some players deserve an opportunity to play and Roberto is definitely one of those. He's a good football player. We consider him a starter.

Once you get in company with Walter Payton that's saying quite a bit. (It was) an outstanding year by Thomas and our offensive line to get that for him. I think we established that through the course of the regular season we are a good running football team and can run the football on just about anybody we play.

It was a tough loss for us today. Going into the game we thought we would be able to run the football against them and we weren't able to do that.

I like what we're doing offensively. I'm not really interested in passing for 400 yards. We're just interested in getting the win. We're a running football team.

Charles has been through a lot this year. He had a tough spell early in the season. He came back after that. Good football players eventually play that way. That's just a huge play.