Root Quotes

You don't want to smother the roots. - Lee Quillen

You don't want to find yourself rooting against guys. You just have to stay ready. - Jaret Wright

You don't have to vote for me to get breakfast. I am so humbled by the encouragement and support of the grassroots voters. I owe everything to the voters. If we win the election, it is not about me, it is about them wanting change. - Dan Patrick

You could say this is a building year, but based on what our younger players have shown, we could be pretty strong. Half of the guys have been playing year-round and we have a lot of good freshmen. - Jeremy Root

You can't help but to think about it, that you're going to have a lot of people that probably know you or have known about you that, even fans that's not rooting for you, but they know I represent New Jersey, they can identify where I'm at, and looking up to an individual like myself who came from the inner city and who made it. - Eric Williams

You can't get down. When you're not playing, root for the other guy. And when you get your opportunity, give 100 percent. - Jim Kiick

You can say I had a severe case of 'Roots' envy. I wanted to be like Alex Haley, and I wanted to be able to... do my family tree back to the slave ship and then reverse the Middle Passage, as I like to put it, and find the tribe or ethnic group that I was from in Africa. - Henry Louis Gates