Darius Walker Quotations

If I had to put this on a scale of 1 to 10, it's definitely a 10 right now. I think if I stay on that scale, it'll probably be a 15 out of 10 come Thursday and Friday.

He flows to the ball. It's almost like he's got some kind of voodoo magic or something.

He flows to the ball. He somehow always finds the ball whether you are throwing or running. It's like he has this voodoo magic or something.

He did have an incredible game, but I don't know how much bearing that will have on this Fiesta Bowl.

Our goal is to reverse that 31. Have us win by 31.

Our coaches always say the most important thing is the first drive, and we came out, got a touchdown, and we knew right there they couldn't hang with us.

I think everybody was in there. It was a nice little day to lay out and actually have a little free time for a change.

It definitely is a little strange to have to play against someone who recruited me. The main thing is I'm trying not to focus on that too much, about playing against him and playing against old coaches. We're going against Washington.

We in turn have to make sure that we're up for that challenge, because there's going to be a lot of contact - hard contact - all the time.

We were not surprised with what happened tonight because we were very well prepared.

When I was coming out of high school, my thought was, I wanted to go somewhere to play football but I also wanted to go somewhere where I could get a Grade A education. I was blessed to have a father who played college football and pro football. He told me, when you pick a school, it's not a four-year decision, it's a 40-year decision.

You can tell the get-nasty attitude in the way you walk, the way you talk, how you feel about yourself. Maybe it's a little bit of a New Jersey-type deal with Coach Weis being from New Jersey.

We feel we can play with anyone. We try not to base too much ... on the luck of the Irish. We just try to go out there and get it for ourselves.

That kind of posed a little bit of a problem as far as the running game was concerned.

It's incredible. This is the reason players pick a school like Notre Dame: Because we get the opportunity to play these kinds of teams.

I noticed it a little bit. If the roles were reversed, we might have done the same thing.

I guess that sort of put a stamp on my decision.

Hopefully, he'll be rooting for us. We'd rather have him on our side.