Jason Davis Quotations

We've got kids who signed who never would have looked at the University of Illinois but are now interested in Illinois because of Coach Zook. That makes you proud. He's relentless on the recruiting road. I applaud that. That brings a lot of energy and excitement to the fans.

If we can get some energy to feed over from Assembly Hall and get it into Memorial Stadium, we'll be all right. It's set up good because those two home games can catapult us into the conference schedule.

But it turned out a lot better than I thought. I call it Lucky.

I felt good all spring. I threw the ball well and felt good.

If someone doesn't have as many beads as they need, I'll help them out.

He's going to come right out and tell us everything he knows. Just a heads-up on ways you can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which guys don't. You can get that from film as the game wears on, but he's giving you a heads-up beforehand.

He definitely knows them well, ... It's a big week for him. He's giving us a heads-up on ways we can attack their technique, which guys like contact and which don't. You can get that as the game wears on, but he's giving us a heads-up beforehand. I'm hoping it will give us an advantage.

It can get away from you in a hurry if you lose a couple pitches. I have to stay focused next time on hitting my spots.

Just having him around brings a smile to my face.

Playing to win is the attitude you have to have, to go out there every night and try and compete. I've done it (in Cleveland) before, and I feel I can again. But it would be kind of sad to leave this family, too. It's a great bunch of guys.

That surprised me. A guy like him doing something childish like that.

I was on the field probably for every series and every play (in 2004), ... With this offense, I'm not, but I'm contributing. I still have to do my job to block, protect, catch the ball and run the ball. ... There are more chances for others to make plays. So, am I playing every play like last year? No. But we won.

You have to come in with your best shot. If we get those three in the bag, it gives you a little leeway. But you have to bring it every Saturday.

We just want it to be a fair fight.

You gotta go hard. You stand hard. You sleep hard. Run hard. Everything's got to be fast. That's what we need. We need that slap on the rear end to get us going.

Coach came in and evaluated film and moved a couple of guys, ... but he said he liked my aggressiveness, how I kept my pads low and went after the block.

You've got to step your game up and be ready. In Game One of a series, you want to do all you can to give your team that edge. (Catcher) Dusty Wathan did a great job and I just relaxed and tried to keep hitting the strike zone.

I missed four blocks, a couple coming off the goal line, that normally I wouldn't miss, ... That was my fault from first-game jitters.