Game Quotes
Sept. 6, 2003
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Larry Coker
“Obviously it was a great game. You throw out all the record books and rankings intrastate rivalry games like this. In my 34 years of coaching I have never seen such character displayed by our football players -they never, never gave up. We caught the ball and protected better in the second half.
“Brock was confident and made the plays in the hurry up offense.”
“We are not a good football team right no. We have a long way to go.”
Brock Berlin
“My emotions are sailing right now and I am grateful to be here in Miami
“My teammates made huge plays tonight and my teammates are the best in the world.”
Ron Zook
“Tonight we got beat by a good football team but its something we can build on. We had chances to win against a good team even though we made mistakes. But in the end we had a chance to win.”
“We just got worn out a bit. They did a good job coming back and we just tried to fend off the onslaught. In the end we had our chance to win it.”
“It shows a lot about our football team. That we got down early and came back. Well get back and get better, we have a lot to learn from this game.”
“Sure it’s disappointing, but we can learn a lot more from this game than if we had won it.”
“Its frustrating because we were in a position to win it, but we just didn’t get it done. “
“That’s a good football team and you can’t make mistakes against them. My hats off to them they did a great job today.”
Shannon Snell
“Congrats to Miami. I’m sorry for my comments.”
Kewon Ratliff
“No one expected us to be in the game. Things like that motivate us.”
On the fumble recovery
“It happened two series before and they blew the whistle. I always play until the whistle blows.”
“I don’t know if it was inexperience or fatigue but they were gettting the deep ones.”
Channing Crowder
“They got the best of us tonight. If we played them again we’d have a 50-50 chance to win the game.”
Leach
“Its a hard game to lose. In the second half we just couldn’t get anything going. “
Johnny Lamar
On the second half defensive breakdown
“We just weren’t recognizing formations.”
“We knew were going to give them a challenge, but we couldn’t get too excited.”
Miami Player Quotes
Sean Taylor
“We are the Miami Hurricanes, we have a lot of tradition. We just kept punching and punching. It was a fight to the death out there, and we won.”
Frank Gore
“We struggled in the beginning, but Having Brock in there really helped us. He was calm in the huddle and made sure we stayed focus. We kept digging and came out with the win.”
Kevin Beard
“As receivers we did our best to get open and made it easy for Brock to make passes.”
“I’ve been here for five years so some of the younger guys look to me as a leader. I feel that when I get going, it gets those guys fired up.
“We learned a lot about ourselves tonight, we know we are not a quitting team and we have a lot of fight in us.”
