Preseason Quotes

You're going to have your differences in the way you practice. There are no hard feelings from our side. It's an important preseason game for us, to show we're getting better. We don't have anything against the guys that came here and practiced against us. They're not in our conference; it's over with. - Jeremy Shockey

You're allowed to have 85 on scholarship come August. It doesn't matter how many you sign as long as you're at 85 come preseason practice. Believe me, it's been thought out. I did get a degree. I know how to add and subtract. - Randy Edsall

You'd think the big news in the locker-room this week was the start of the preseason, but all everyone could talk about was the new Madden game. Everyone had to check out their new ratings and the new features in the game. - Ahman Green

You'd like to believe we haven't lost much of what we had. But you still have to prove it. Whatever we did last year doesn't count, doesn't make a darn bit of difference. It's what you do now. With our approach and the way we run the offense in the preseason games, we make it a little tougher on ourselves. - Dick Vermeil

You want to keep some momentum going, move the ball a little bit, but we're not going to show them anything, so it's going to be kind of a preseason game plan. So I don't know how much we're really going to accomplish. - Olin Kreutz

You want to evaluate, you want to see what they can do in game situations with only a couple of (preseason) games left. We'll have some decisions to make. - Mike Shanahan

You never know for sure in the preseason how teams are going to be... You can make your best guess based on the people that are returning, and that type of thing. But the thing about the Big Ten, we play a grueling out-of-conference schedule. And then, when you get into the league and you go into those opposing stadiums, it's hard to win. Our stadiums are incredible. It's like you're already down by a touchdown when you walk in the door. - Jim Tressel

You know what? There shouldn't be any two-a-days... There should probably be two preseason games, and then we should just go play football. Guys are in shape pretty much. - Ray Brown

You kind of heard it every day for a little bit. I'm new to the club, this is my first year, but when I got here, the talk was the Colts. Just being in the playoffs the last two years and having them beat us, so even though it's the preseason, we still want to do some things to make sure we found the right solution to solving that problem. - Ebenezer Ekuban