31 Quotes by Gene Chizik

We never, ever stop working. When we get down to the red zone, it's not easy for people to score. You never see anybody get rattled when things aren't going good, and there was a period of time (against Texas Tech) when things weren't going good. You never hear anybody say anything on the sideline. They understand what they have to do. We regroup, we adjust and we go back out there and play.

When you're playing a team that, in some areas, has been tagged as one of the best teams in college football history, that makes it fun.

What separates him from a lot of the good ones, and why he's a great one, is he's got the mental part of the game as well as anyone I've ever been around. He does a great job of making sure everybody is in line.

What I've found is that a lot of times, if a guy is that good that you're spying on him, he's probably better than your spy guy. We've got to have 11 guys spying on him.

The thing that I'm the most proud of is that we never stopped working. We were patient. We never saw anybody get rattled.

You would not want to go into this game right now with a lot of young people in your secondary.

You've got to stop the run, be physical and then be solid in your coverage issues. You can't let a team that throws it 70 times a game make you into a finesse team. You have to be physical.

It's all about points allowed. They were averaging 54. They scored 17 today. Now that doesn't mean we're perfect . . .

I told them we're going to be physical. If you're not willing to be that or can't be that, you won't be playing. They bought into that. There's no other way to play defense the way we see it.