45 Quotes by Gary Patterson

The only difference between us and them is that we won two overtime games and they lost three.

We have received questions from players all over the West Utah, California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico since the move was announced. We understand how good the competition is, that we're going to places like BYU to play in front of 60,000 instead of some places in Conference USA to play in front of 6,000. Bigger stadiums. A stronger league. Stronger nonconference scheduling. It's all a big difference for us and yet our kids are very excited.

One of the things I'll fight when we have the national convention is to keep the coaches' challenge.

Next week will be the hardest week that we'll have. For me, I hope it gets to be about 85 or 90 degrees again. We need a little bit more heat to start becoming condition ready and keep working.

For me, this will probably be the biggest win as a head coach for this program. You've got to know everybody will have ups and downs. This is real important. These are all my kids now that I've recruited. It's good to see them play hard and play in that kind of arena.

If that's how his (Bronco Mendenhall) teams are going to play in his tenure here, they are going to have some great football teams.

He's given TCU three great years. All you can say is it shows that TCU has arrived.

There are so many things being taught. We're just trying to install and get better.

I think (the players) know that they have a chance, with some other people losing, to move close to the top 10.