Banged Quotes

You want your best guys in there. We've had a lot of injuries, it's unfortunate. But that's the time of the year. A lot of guys are banged up. - Mark Brunell

You saw flashes last year. Ronnie got a little banged up at the end of the year and would've easily had 1,000 yards as a rookie. He's really a complete back and I think he could play every down. That guy's going to be a force to be reckoned with for years, I guarantee you that. - Scott Linehan

Yes, but things happen. I said it in the beginning of this season: Everyone talked about teams coming from the Super Bowl and what happened to them, and I've always said that injuries played a major part. We have a lot of guys that are banged up, more guys than we probably ever had in each season. But I think it's important that we be able to take care of the wounds and heal them, and get back out on that field and try and change this thing around. - Donovan McNabb

Without our point guards we're pretty banged up. We're kind of limping around and trying to hang on to a playoff spot. - Tony Raffetto

With the year off and just getting back into it, you're more susceptible, your body's not as hard as it usually is. You got to develop some of those calluses again, that pain tolerance. But everybody's got to go through it. It happens. For me, it's inevitable -- it's just the way that I play -- that I'm going to get banged up. - Darren McCarty

With Josh out and Demetrius banged up we felt that we needed another body in the backfield. - Jon Heacock

When we lost to Manhattan, we were banged up. That's not making excuses. I just didn't like the passion we played with in that tournament. - Billy Donovan

When they come out at the start of the game shooting the ball the way they did, that's not the order of things. They banged shots early, we fell behind and we couldn't control tempo. - Luke Reilly

When the kids tell me they can play, I expect 100 percent from them, but at this time of the year, everybody's banged up a little here and there. The kids are going to go because they know this is a one-shot deal. - Bob Saveikis

When I was at the Academy, we started 6-0 [in 2002, finishing 8-5]. Why did we kind of slump off? We got banged up. Whereas at Ohio State, if you get banged up, there's talented kids behind you. - Anthony Schlegel