"I'm not one to say, what is the (optimum weight for Curtis Brinkley). I think the way that he's worked, as hard as he's worked, he's found his level of where he's comfortable."

"We need to get started. But this is the start of it. It's not about it. It's about doing about it. "

"The goal is to really see there's been an osmosis taking place."

"This team has a chance to have a lot of leadership; a lot of leadership, all through out of it."

"I just think this group has leadership from top to bottom. There's young to fifth year seniors that bring something in that area."

"The expectations that I have for our football team is to all of a sudden blossom and all of our hard work and the struggles and the pain that we've gone through, all of a sudden be rewarded for us."

"I think there's a quality that runs through this football team and it's called the love of the game of football."

"..it's amazing how the decisions that these young people make because they love football, it's amazing how it carries over into their social life, it carries over into their academic life, and at Syracuse, that's very important."

"When I came here, I had my vision. That's what it is. That's all it is. I think it's coming to fruition in my own mind."

"Well, we've got to win. We've got to win football games."