Football: Selected Player Quotes
September 24, 2009 07:43 PM | General
September 24, 2009
Trippe Hale
On making the trip south:
"I was happy to be back and very excited. I’m just glad that I was healthy enough to make the trip to Auburn.”
"I had a bunch of friends there and my brother, Carson, goes to Auburn so he was there with all of his friends. I barely talked to him the week after the Auburn game because I didn’t want to hear what he had to say.”
On his performance at Auburn:
“After getting a big tackle right off the bat, people were just saying ‘It’s good for you to have you Trippe back,’ and I really appreciated that. I work hard and take special teams seriously so it was good to hear that.”
“I think we were in a good place against Auburn. We never did the same kick twice and we were always keeping them guessing. I feel like last year we were the ones guessing, but we learned from that and kept them guessing.”
Bradley Starks
On the overall performance at Auburn:
“I think it’s great that we get another week to prepare for Colorado. We went in knowing that it was a tough game and that we’ve got to play hard and stay focused. The offense has performed great but we can always be better and play better.”
“Turnovers are something you can prevent but you can’t stop them so we just have to cut down on them and play the way we’ve been playing.”
On how to improve the result:
“I think we just have to keep working at what we do best and fine tuning what we do best and cut down on turnovers. We just need to learn from it and not do it again.”
“Coach Jeff Mullen and the staff have been doing a great job of getting us in position to make good plays.
Josh Jenkins
On the atmosphere at Auburn:
“After experiencing Auburn’s crowd and they were pretty wild, we need to get our crowd wild too. The atmosphere was crazy. It was so loud there that you couldn’t even hear yourself think. It was something else.”
Jarrett Brown
On his shoulder:
“My shoulder feels a little better and I can lift my arm but it’s not my throwing arm so that’s good.
On Auburn’s defense:
“They switched it up a little bit and did a good job at giving us a different look with a new defense, I just wasn’t prepared for that.”
“I always told myself I wouldn’t get too down because it’s early in the season and we have plenty more ball to play. Like I always say, experience is the best teacher you could have.
On practice this week:
“This week we’re going to focus on taking care of the ball and executing plays, we’re going to play a lot harder. We’re real good, we just need to eliminate the mistakes.
On the Auburn loss:
“I didn’t get much sleep that night because I was thinking about those plays over and over and over. I watched that tape about five times within a two day span. I see that loss as a blessing because it humbled me so much and made me a much better player. I learned how to take a loss.”
