21 Quotes by Jerry Kill

We preferred the original date, but it became an opportunity for us to help out our athletic department and specifically, the basketball team. This is good for everyone.

The deal is I have to like it because we have about seven or eight players who aren't practicing right now due to some injuries. We would have a very thin team if we played next week.

We won a few wars and we lost a few wars today. Here in the past week, we lost (five) players to Division I(-A) programs. But at the same time we were able to get three or four of those players that turned down Division I offers. We felt like overall, as competitive as it was, that we came out pretty good.

There's no bad feelings. He just felt like it was the right decision and we support him.

They handed down discipline through the school. It wasn't a major issue. It was more of an administrative issue. I'm glad we don't work that way.

It's a slow process, I'll tell you. It's a little bit frustrating. I want to go full-tilt right now. I'm just kind of working my way into it. We've got such a young team, it's not like I can take five or six days off. It's just the first time I've ever had anything I couldn't control in life. So it is frustrating.

It was a very physical hard-fought game on a hard surface. You are going to have some of that sometimes.

It started when we were 4-8 and beat Northern Iowa and Western Illinois. The next year we got off to a good start because we had found a way to win. Winning becomes a habit just like losing is a habit.

Everybody wants to talk about Nick, but we have some competition there. It is going to be interesting to see what happens.