153 Quotes by Barry Alvarez

It was important for me to redistribute Jamie's duties in the short-term, ... We will fill a position on the senior staff after the football season concludes.

We certainly haven't used that as a motivation, ... The games themselves and the time that they've put in in preparation for these games is motivation enough. I don't think that has anything to do with it at all.

It's absolutely fitting that this is my last team.

It never looked like he was tired. I guess that's a good thing with having those 18-year-old legs. They don't get tired, those kids. Man, did he play. I'm really proud of him. That's unbelievable. Then he's covering punts and on the punt return and kickoff team. We took him off some of that.

We always talk about being a spark and swinging the momentum of the game and that swung it.

I tried to avoid making a big deal about this being my final game. I had some emotional moments -- the last game at Camp Randall (Stadium), the ceremony after, the banquet.

It's the Dog Days of camp. You can't see the light at the end of the tunnel. But this is where you have to work through it. This is where you can get your conditioning and learn to push yourself when you're tired.

We thought we could get some deep balls with him,

It's going to be a very physical game, a game where you're going to have to take on linemen and stop very outstanding backs and then still respect the throw. Where last week was you're spread all over the field, this is a little more conventional.