Quotes by Justin Smith

“Yeah its a big rivalry. Weve been doing a lot of talking over the summer. Ever since the schedules came out everyone was looking forward to this game.”

“I thought Shawn was going to be nervous and scared, but he never was. Hes been really clutch so far.”

“Weve got to keep going out and doing our thing. Dont listen to anything anybodys saying because it can turn bad as quickly as it turned good.”

“Weve got a lot of guys who have experience from that last year. We dont want to have that same feeling again.”

“We work hard in practice. They make such a great game plan during the week, it makes it so easy in the game.”

“We cannot play our best game and still put out the win. Penalties, stupid mistakes, things that used to get us down, were able to overcome now. Thats the definition of a good team.”

“I think we felt like we had a chance to be a pretty good defense. And the only people that gave us a chance were the players and the coaches.”

“You ride it as hard as you can, as fast as you can, and see where we get at the end of things.”

“They believed what (the original tracker) identified as places that would have been a boy crawling up the side of the hill were in fact, in their opinion, bear tracks going up and down.”

“This game is over with, and weve got to move on. It really doesnt mean anything. Theres no excuses, but we knew we were going to play next week. Its win or go home now.”

I experience the age I am now as an age at which I must ensure that I already am what I insist or believe I am going to be.