10 Quotes by John Brockington


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    Plunkett was dropping passes in between three guys; he was hitting guys falling down. . . . We were a much better team.

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    If any defense would have stopped them, it would have been ours. We'd have made the quarterback run the ball, and we'd have pounded him, beat him up.

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    I've never gotten over that one. We were much better than Stanford. But we changed our offense to an option type thing. We were running the Wishbone! We could have put our hands on three national championships.

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    The whole state of Michigan was waiting for us. They started shaking the bus and making some nasty statements.

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    It was there through spring, and when we came back after the summer they had cleaned it and it was back where it was before. We walked across it every day.

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    I remember one of the first things we saw in California was a woman in a fishnet top with no bra. Woody hated California. The state could have fallen in the ocean and he wouldn't have cared. . . . Woody just wanted to kick . . . and go home.

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