288 Quotes by Jim Tressel

When you have to play extra people in the box to stop his run it's going to leave you a bit vulnerable to the pass. I thought he played hard. He kept getting hit and beat up and kept coming back. And his team won.

They were very simple and executed very well,

I don't have a whole lot consternation about it. I've been here five years and can tell you exactly what our record was those five years. But I can't tell you where we ranked in recruiting. Having a top 10 class validates you a little bit, but until the players come in and do anything you're not truly validated.

We always say the spring game is mostly fun because you've been working hard and now you get to compete. Any time you keep score, you'd like to win. It's probably a little more impact than a normal spring practice. But they (the players) all know we've got 29 practices ahead of us before we line up for real against Northern Illinois.

They just pinned their ears back and they were not going to let us outside the edges. They were not going to let Teddy run reverses or those kind of things, which gave us an opportunity to do some other things.

We always look at Penn State as good,

I don't ever like to squash one's creativity.

When you're at Ohio State or Texas, the expectations can't go any higher. There is an immediate flurry of business commitments you have to fulfill, but things pretty much stay the same.

Notre Dame is a fast defense, (but) when they're chasing one way, and Teddy's running the other, they've got a problem.