Chris Ellis Quotations

Fortunately, I've been doing it for a while now, so I'm strong enough to keep my mind on what we've got to do and give them a little earful after the play is over, ... When they're more worried about me, and chasing me all over the field to get me back, then I know I've got them. I know I'm doing my job.

He was a superior athlete in the rec league. He was a superior athlete in high school. And he'll be a superior athlete here. You know how pilots like to fly and doctors like to save people's lives? Well, Xavier likes to play football.

He had a little fight in him, but I wouldn't want to feel like him in the morning. He didn't want to get up. I was surprised that he came back out there after that. That just showed me they didn't have anybody else because nobody would want to endure that much pain.

He gives you that look, and you're out of it for a whole practice. He spooks a lot of freshmen out with that.

I think losing all those games humbled us. But winning these two makes us understand where we can go as a team. Already, we've gone from zeroes to bracket-busters.

Out here, we all have something in common. Now I'll be here for our senior season.

It has been an ongoing investigation since September, and now we have enough evidence to arrest Mr. Stokes.

When everybody's clicking on all cylinders like that, there's no better time.

It would be nice to go into the tournament on a high note, with some kind of momentum going our way. The season can go on as long as we want it to. You can't close the door on anybody in this conference.

Coach (Skip Prosser) tells me not to hesitate, he tells me just to let it ride. That was a momentum-changer for us.

Fitness is definitely an important category for us.

Even after this wave of retail comes on line, there will still be significant demand for retail in Austin. But it's unlikely you'll see this much space coming on line within such a compact period of time in the future.

I mean, from your hair style to the way it looked when you went to high school, ... to how sorry you were in high school and how they don't play any football down there. Everything I can think of, you're definitely going to hear about it.

I'm glad they didn't close the base. I want to stay here a while.

All of us are going to make an impact. ... I think it's gonna be times two from last season, because a lot of us are going to play a lot more. It's gonna be put on our shoulders a little bit. We embrace that, though. We embraced that from when we first got here.

It seems everybody had a more non-partisan attitude this year. It's the best forum I've seen in five or six years.

I just tell them everything from how bad they're playing to how good I'm playing,

I'll look for anything I can find wrong with their game. I'll look for any way I can to get in their head. That goes for the quarterback, the center or somebody I'm not even going up against on the field.

I'll read things like what your mom's name is, where you were born, ... Anything that could help me get ahead on something you think I might not know, like how many sisters or brothers you've got. ... Any way I can take away your manhood, that's what I'm going for out there.

I didn't think we'd have a season like this.

It's kind of like tough love, like you do with your child. You've got to bring them along slowly, and at the same time, pick them up every time and let them know things are going to be all right. I don't think they're going to see a lot of defenses as fast and as together as we are, so we're giving them their best look everyday. And when you see the best look everyday, that makes Saturdays that much easier.

We went from zero to ACC Tournament bracket-buster.

Those possessions we contested (shots), everybody blocked out and that led to our run. When you stop a team and they're taking contested jumpers, that frustrates them into making other decisions.

He almost got me. It was closer than I wanted it to be.