Polls Quotes

You're always striving for the pollsters to translate into an excellent spring. But there are seven or eight teams in the SEC that can honestly challenge for (the conference), so it should be pretty exciting. - Michael Hegarty

You'd much rather be recognized by the pollsters and the people in the community than not. The thing we have to guard against is living in the past. - Paul Mainieri

You never know until people vote. It's discouraging to see the polls where they are. But we're still holding out hope. - Gifford Miller

You might have 15 players rated with the same grade. If it is close, you might go with the need, but it has to be very close. This is no perfect formula. If there is a tenth or two-tenths of a point difference between two players, that's basically nothing but opinion anyway. Like the polls on political elections, it's often too close to call. If it is that close, sure, you are going to go by need. But what you are hoping for is that the highest rated player is the position that you need. And that happens, it happens a lot. - Ernie Accorsi

You know, there were five different teams that had it all locked up, and they all lost within the last week. And so Nebraska sort of backed in, and Oregon was the consensus No. 2, and the computer polls didn't like them, so then ended up the Fiesta Bowl. And then it was a rotten game. - Mitch Dorger

You get a sixth sense about this stuff. You know your district. . . . You don't need polls, but we ran a poll anyway. And the poll showed, basically, that I had a 50-50 chance of winning. - Tom DeLay

You don't get up in the polls unless you get on the debates, and you don't get on the debates unless you go up in the polls. - Pat Buchanan

You can't depend on polls. - Michael Bloomberg

Yet the barely-moving polls and the lack of major gaffes or policy collapses has made it duller than I, for one, hoped it would be. - Andrew Marr

Yes, speed is a concern for domestic public opinion polls and Iraqi public opinion... But they are taking a risk here. They may get a bad product in the end and run the risk of civil war. - Larry Diamond