288 Quotes by Jim Tressel

Michigan has done an excellent job all along of being balanced. I thought they executed well. Michigan's always going to have excellent personnel, but your excellent personnel still has to execute.

There really was no grade consistent enough to say, 'Hey, this person was player of the week,' ... It was a lack of consistency, not that anyone did horribly, but no one did out of this world.

You just never know (about recruits). So who will do it? I don't know that any of us at this time last year would have thought ... (freshman) Malcolm Jenkins would start five games at cornerback.

This is too tough a ballgame. Guys only want to go out there if they can contribute.

You know, I grew up in the early '70s in college and I had plenty of teammates who had a little hair. I don't have a problem with that, as long as they look -- I don't know what the right word is -- as long as they look sharp.

Where we are at this moment, ... is not where you'd like to be after three games.

Fulfilling our purpose is part of who we are.

There’s two things that you don’t listen to: flattery, which can’t help you, and abuse, which can’t hurt you. You have to look at the facts.

Start by doing what’s necessary, then what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible. Saint Francis of Assisi.