101 Quotes by Sylvester Croom

The legal system has worked, and our players have been penalized by the court.

Their high school football is some of the best in the country.

We are a football team, and we will play as a football team this year. I'm not going to make any predictions, but we go into the season this year feeling like we can play with anybody on our schedule and have a chance to win.

To play as bad as we did in the first half and only going in (down) 14-0, I felt like if our defense could come back and make plays, we had a chance.

Ultimately, I am responsible for their actions and I take full responsibility. But I want to stress that these are good kids who come from good families, who made a serious mistake in judgment.

We're still making mistakes and still not finishing in protections. We need to give Mike some time and he'll make plays.

... We've got guys on our teams whose homes are gone, and everything they've got is gone, ... Most went at least 24 hours before they could even find out if their people were OK. To do what they did this week shows that we've got some great young people on this football team. I have so much respect for them. I don't know if I could have done it.

We were horrible. It was downright awful. I don't know how good we are, but we're a whole lot better than we were last year.

We want to close this thing out with these guys this weekend. This is still key. We still have top guys visiting.