Phil Dawson Quotations

There are no moral victories. You can't really gain confidence and say. We hung with this team.' It's all about winning.

When you're aggressive, you take real long strides and your leg swing is real long,

No one is appealing to you to do your job,

We haven't played many inside, ... It seems dome teams when they go on the road get to play other dome teams. I'm jealous of dome kickers because there are two less variables. One is the weather and the other is the field.

People take for granted the skill involved in holding the football. Kyle's doing a great job, but it took us a series of weeks to develop that chemistry. We're still working on it. How many receivers drop the ball? Holders are never allowed to drop it.

The most amazing thing to me in that game was the onside kick. That Soldier Field turf is soft. He bounced it to the moon. There's no way that should have happened but it did.

The most amazing thing to me in that game was the onside kick, ... That Soldier Field turf is soft. He bounced it to the moon. There's no way that should have happened but it did.

That kind of honest, straightforward, businesslike approach is making some of the same guys of the past perform better. You know where you stand. You know what the expectations are for you - like it or not. So some days you come to work and it's a little uncomfortable.

I'm glad it's big news when I miss one, ... If people were used to it, we wouldn't be having this conversation.

I'm concerned any time I miss. That's just the way I am, ... I have extremely high standards for myself. When I miss a kick, I immediately want to see what went wrong and fix the problem if a problem exists.

If you shorten your momentum and your steps and leg swing, you have to find a new way to get power. Those were some of the things I was working on. I think it's going to pay dividends late in the year.