Quotes by Donald Walker

“These are the favored ones-year after year-read under dim spot lamps in taxis or air shuttles, balanced on subways, carried on boardwalks and into bathtubs. They develop broken spines, pages like prune skin or go to their reward in the land of lost umbrellas.”

“You just cant coach things like that, ... He just has a natural instinct of getting the ball into the end zone no matter what. And the funny thing is, he could have jumped higher over that guy if he needed to.”

“(Reed) is a guy that all he wants to do is play defense, ... Even when were running our first-team offense against our scout team defense at practice, he wants to be out there. He just never quits. He has played with confidence the first one-and-a-half games, which makes him that much better. Our defense as a whole needs to gain that type of confidence.”

“We had a couple of kids make some poor decisions.”

“Until our kids start believing in the potential they have, thats exactly what it will be - just potential, ... Were getting some good individual efforts from a handful of guys but were not getting it from a lot of others. Everyone, including us coaches, expected big things from this bunch. But if the players dont realize the opportunity they have, we might end up being just another better-than-average Hilliard football team that wins seven games or so.”

“Its really been a great public-private partnership, ... People dont understand how long it takes to do projects like this. And then you throw the weather in there.”

“They came in with a different game plan than what we were expecting and executed it like they were supposed to,”

“Well learn from this and get better. I give them all the credit in the world.”

“You want the kids to stay focused during a long bus ride, you want the other team to play hard, and you want your team to play the best they can.”

“If you dont start them young, they have no roots.”