Pat Haden Quotations

Where some people were bemoaning some of these things that surround the program, I think he has embraced them and turned them into positives.

Having two weeks to prepare is a great advantage. I'm interested to see what Coach Weis has planned, particularly the first 15 offensive plays, which he scripts.

Having two weeks to prepare and pore over every frame of game film is a great advantage. I am very interested to see what Coach Weis has planned, particularly the first 15 offensive plays which Weis scripts. Weis has done a great job of putting points on the board against highly ranked opponents.

He's a tough New Jersey guy. Those words mean something to him and people around him. By his force of will he has these guys playing much smarter. They are making fewer mistakes. And the offense has been completely different from a year ago with basically the same personnel. All of a sudden, guys who were invisible a year ago are making incredible plays.

I threw interception after interception and I remember the look of disgust on coach John McKay's face every time I walked back to the sideline,

They are a good football team and they have managed to put up a lot of points on most everybody they have played. This is a team that doesn't make a lot of mistakes.

Somebody told me USC had dropped and I didn't believe them, ... How can you be the No. 1 team in the country, win five road games, three against ranked opponents, and lose ground? How does that happen?

So we kind of laid an egg in our very first game.

This is one of the great intersectional rivalries in college football, and for the first time in quite some time it's a game of national significance, ... I expect a very high-scoring game with three or four plays making the difference.

I don't know how to answer that question,

He is so efficient. He seems to be playing smarter, more confidently. I think they have given him more responsibility. He's very, very accurate and doesn't make many mistakes. The statistics show he has three interceptions, but in reality it's only one. The others were deflected passes by receivers who should have caught balls.