9 Quotes by Jimbo Fisher

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    He looks good. He's been between 245 and 250 here now -- even less when he sweats it out during practice. I think he's in really good shape.

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    I think they are very similar in a lot of ways. They are all very good quarterbacks - they can throw the ball, they can run and they can make good decisions. They might have few things where one runs a second faster or the other throws the ball five yards longer, but I don't think there a whole heck of a lot different in a lot of ways. We got a great group and whoever starts at that position should be very good.

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    Usually you'll find one group -- the line, the linebackers or the secondary -- that's better than another, but this defense is just as good in every area. It's the best defense I've ever coached against. I've been looking for weaknesses for several weeks and I can't seem to find one.

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    We hadn't run a lot of the misdirection. We really got Joe out on the edge a lot. And Joe was healthy again. We basically didn't have him the second half of the season.

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    Anytime a guy experiences failure, you always wonder. You've got to put him back up on the horse after it throws him off and see what happens. We did, and he gained that confidence back, and I think at the end of the year when he really played well in the bowl game, it came out, and it showed.

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    You're always going to have those butterflies. If you don't then you're not a competitor and you're not a player. When you lose that feeling in your stomach that's when you need to not do it anymore. That's what makes it special and exciting.

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    The little things he does that I see, things the fans might not see, are so much better now. Little things. He calls plays. He manages the game, manages the clock, manages the players, the signals, the checks.

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