Bill Gray Quotations

We are looking forward to going up there and seeing if our game plan on both sides of the ball is good enough to put our players in position to make some plays,

We've got guys who are battling for a spot to get on the plane to go play a Big 12 team, ... Anytime you have guys working for that reason, you can get something done in practice

Somebody forgot to cover him. We had the coverage for him.

I don't know yet, ... I'm afraid he might have an injury that might keep him out of it for awhile.

If it keeps up like this, I'm probably going to have to hire off-duty police officers to control it.

We made too many mistakes on special teams, ... That can't happen. We pride ourselves on special teams at Samford. So we've got to get that fixed.

I think that our offensive line has really started to gel, ... We have three new faces up there on the front line and they haven't played a lot of football. Despite their experience, I think that every time we step on the football field, they get better.

Jerry Lamb was one of my heroes. He wouldn't let us lose.

Our offensive line hasn't provided Forbes with the time he needs to throw and we have had success with our running game,

I thought Jefferson played pretty well for us, ... Although there were some balls that he probably would like to have back. But I was proud of the way he created plays for us.

We expect to compete for a championship. We expect that every year.

We have to try and take the run away, ... They like run at you so we gotta try and take away what they like to do best.

We have to play much better, ... We have to go out there and try not to make mistakes.

We have to improve on all phases this week, ... We pride ourselves on special teams around here and we've had a couple of breakdowns. We've got to get that worked out.

We practice no-huddle offense at the end of practice every day. You can't drop the snap on a play like that, you can't do it. I don't give a (darn) if it's high school ? you just can't do it.

We're trying to be smart enough to do what our players do best. Saying that, we're still trying to find a way to run the football. We haven't been able to do that yet. We have to get better on defense. Offensively, we do have a system in place.

Why did we sign up? Because it's a business, and if you expect to go anywhere in this life, you've got to take a chance now and then.

We are seriously hamstrung by injuries and illness right now, and there are some kids who found out at (2 p.m. Friday) that they were going to play. We're going through a real hard time right now. We just can't put a whole football team together at any one time.

We made 4 or 5 really bad mistakes that prevented us from winning, ... We did some really good things against a very good football team. We held them to less than 4 yards a carry but gave up big plays through the air.

We will need to play four strong quarters to win this week,

We have a defined clientele. The kids come to us. We have to take them and make them into football players. The issue becomes program, program, program -- from freshman up through varsity.

We finished everything up, and hopefully, we are taking enough of an arsenal over there to get it done, ... We had a much better day today. We will get on the plane tomorrow, and we are looking forward to it.

We have a big challenge this week in getting ready to stop a quarterback who's a great player and who is literally a D-I quarterback, ... He's been doing a good job for Furman and our defense has got to play proper technique on Saturday. We also have to communicate and make sure that we don't break our assignments.

Brian's group deconstructs the visual presence of the brand and re-creates it. More often, you don't know what will come out: street art, Web sites, a store, events.

There's no question we have to do that to make ends meet. But it's also a good opportunity for our players. They love playing a I-A game. We've been able to come back from every I-A game a better football team.

I've talked with our kids about this is a new season.

I wanted both to get quality reps (against Edward Waters) and they did, ... Both will play and both will play early.

That's going to hurt us, ... He was a quality individual with an excellent work ethic. We're thin at running back, but hopefully this is a chance for someone to step up.

A lot of what appears to be progress is just so much technological rococo.

They're doing a good job. They are nowhere close to being the two guys we had there.

It was real windy out there and difficult to throw. Our offensive line really played well in the second half so we stayed with the running game.

It's not such a bad thing. It's a nice billboard, and the township is getting paid a rental fee for it.

They like the fact we're playing in a I-A environment,

This is just the way nature behaves and I find it astounding how tremendously lucky this country's been in the past 20 years in the lack of a major landfall. People need to view this as a tragedy, an event of nature that occasionally occurs, and we shouldn't blame anybody for it.

Shawn Jones brings the size we are looking for on defense. He has a lot of intangibles that give him a chance to have a good career here.

The landscape of the field is fixing to change in a hurry. They all understood after the ball game we have a much, much steeper test.

I know they (Baylor) are expecting a good crowd, ... They have a lot of enthusiasm on their team right now. They finished strong last year, and won their opener on the road, so I am sure we will have a great atmosphere on Saturday to play in.

He's the consummate freshman football coach. When you listen to Fred talk to his assistant coaches about who they should play, it's all grade-point averages and who will play varsity as a senior.

He (Adcock) probably has a leg up on Parker right now, ... But there's no question that both of them will see a lot of playing time this year.

This is likely to go on for a while.

All three phases, except punting, hurt us on Thursday, ... If you go and get a field goal blocked and miss and extra point, that takes points off the board. Plus we gave up a lot of yards on kick returns and we weren't really consistent on kickoffs. So really we need to improve in all three phases.

The last three years we've played a I-A game, we've come back improved and stayed healthy and played a good game.