86 Quotes by Rod Smith

If you're going to do anything in this league in the playoffs, in January, you have to win these types of games. This is a playoff game, this is a playoff atmosphere and when you come out on the low end of it you really got to rethink what you're doing and how you're doing it and go back to work.

I just see the young guys come in every year, they want what you have, to go where you've gone. You know it isn't forever, but you want to keep going.

I remember (Clerk of the Court) Buddy Irby opened the courthouse at night for us. It was round-the-clock. In my life I've never put as much focus on something as I did on the prosecution of Danny Rolling.

I hope he buys a Rolls-Royce and lets me drive it.

If you want to fix the schools, pay the teachers better, recruit the best and the brightest back into the classroom, give them the authority to run the classes, educate them so that we're doing something besides becoming just an FCAT test center.

It helps us physically and mentally because we play well at home. And you want other teams to come to your place with that doubt that 'They play well at home.' It doesn't mean everything. I've been in the playoffs where we've lost at home against Jacksonville (in the 1996 season) and I didn't get off the couch for three months.

It heats up a week before, then two days before. Then it gets ridiculous during the last couple of minutes. Sometimes the phone rings at the last minute with some crazy ideas, but I don't like operating that way.

He's in total control. He's the guy that you see when he leaves every week he's got a bag of tapes with him. The rest of us get DVDs, Jake gets a bag of tapes that he takes home to study to make sure that he can put all of us in the right position.

I don't think that's something the governor makes decisions about. I'm going to let local government decide whether a dog gets to go in. I hope they do.