26 Quotes by John Thornton

There are going to be games when there will be adversity. You can't get down, because I don't think we're a fluke. A whole lot of people might think we're a fluke, and teams that think they're a fluke are going to get down on themselves.

The governor has asked that all of the public schools in the state of Georgia close on Monday and Tuesday to help conserve fuel.

We need to go play well and get our confidence back. It'll be good in the sense that we have another game to play (before the playoffs). We haven't played well at home in the last three games.

When you look back on it three weeks from now, they'll add up the victories and they won't remember which ones were pretty.

Sacks are good - if you're up for your contract. You get turnovers, that's big. That's not saying we don't want sacks, but I'd rather have not lost a game than have a bunch of sacks.

As a pro player, you want to be respected.

That's how this league is. Everybody rides the hot team. We were one of the glamour boys in the league, and everybody wanted to talk about us and interview us. But now they're saying we're not that good. That's fine.

There's an excess of capital in the venture industry, and the only way to produce superior returns is to do stuff that nobody else has the appetite or capability to do.

It wasn't some huge game plan. You try to get turnovers. We just wanted to make tackles and not let Culpepper scramble.