45 Quotes by Mike Rucker

Last year I had to relearn that, and those new guys had to learn me. It takes time. We went through all that going 1-7 last year. But now, we throw them in, and we're already clicking.

I think each guy does a great job. Each guy brings his own personality to it. We haven't had anybody to where you're up there thinking, 'Wow, that was bad.' Because it comes from the heart, each man. And that's why I think Coach Fox does it. Because we play with each other, and a player listening to a player, that goes a long way.

Records and things like that are made to be broken. The odds can come out on a game and you might be the underdog. Is that saying that the underdog wins? No. I don't think we put a whole lot of stock in that.

That day was tough. Because it was like the punctuation mark to that season.

We don't talk with our mouths! We talk with our pads!

We'll still be messing with him in the training room. We need to keep (him) feeling connected.

We said, 'Hey, we're not going to be distracted by the lack of people. We're not going to be distracted by their record. We're not going to be distracted by the fact that we just played a Monday night game and had a short week of practice,'

The defensive backs, they will do what they have to do. But the best thing for us to do is get our hands up.

Two-a-days do get you in shape in a certain way. But then there's that cutoff point where guys are getting too nicked up or too tired to go twice a day. So it's tough to say.