16 Quotes by Jim Zorn

Matt was tremendously talented, but wild. He would come in and say, 'This is how we did it in Green Bay,' and wasn't very receptive to change.

He would come in and tell us what he thought we should be doing, and that what we were doing was all wrong.

He would always try to fight the other coach. He would always claim that he could beat up the other coach if they got in a fight.

He had so much talent he thought he could make every throw from every angle. He eventually found out that it takes a little more discipline than that.

He had his quirks. We never had water. There was no water on the sidelines during practice in Cheney, Washington. It would be 100 degrees in Cheney and we would be paying ball boys to get us some ice cubes. They used to wrap them in towels you used to dry your face and you'd be chewing on ice.

He could have lashed out or just gone in the tank or been so frustrated and demanded a trade. That's not how Matt reacted.

(Knox) was frustrated with me anyway, throughout the early game, and that kind of iced it for him. I looked to the sidelines, and I saw him, first of all, throw his play sheet. Then he took off his hat - it was a double - and threw his hat down. I just remember walking off to the furthest side of the field, to not go by him.

Matt has come a long way. He came in here as the starter and got knocked to the background. That was very unexpected in his life.

When it started here, we wanted to create a tradition. We had a bunch of enthusiastic athletes, but we never quite built a sustained thing. We had some success in the 1980s, but it went sour again. For the last few years we've had a team that was expected to win.