“I want five to 10 guys on the varsity year to year handling the leadership, ... Obviously, we want to win games, but we know it's going to take some time.”
“I can see what some of the older kids will look at and not come out. I guess they thought it was not going to be a successful year. I'm going to play the best guys we've got. Those younger guys just happen to be what we have.”
“Still, I always felt I had an outside chance because I had been training well. I have been running 100 miles a week until the last two weeks. Then I settled down to long, easy running. I felt the spark and spring coming back to my legs.”
“I want to tell you something, ... I'm Native American, and you calling me Chief, it turns my stomach. It'd be very similar to somebody calling you Nigger.”