Shane Quilling Quotations

I don't know where to guess right now. It will be somewhere.

If we stay healthy we'll battle people. We should be pretty good up front.

We're pretty solid, experience-wise, on the D-line and at linebacker. We're just young, not age-wise, but experience-wise, in the secondary. I think a lot of our success is going to depend on how well our secondary catches up.

Matt got his cast off, but we're still waiting to see if he can get cleared.

Our front line is solid, both on offense and defense. They're as good as anybody, I think.

I think we're evenly matched. The last couple of years, we didn't have a chance because they were better than us, top to bottom. This time, I think it's going to come down to whoever executes the best in all three phases of the game.

That's a tough one. He might be the best kicker in the North and we may have lost him for the year.

That was the amazing thing. Even with all the stuff that happened, we were only one game away from the playoffs. That's one of the things that has me so excited about this year.

We owned them up front, both on offense and defense. We thought, from watching film on them, that we could dominate on the line so our game plan was to run the ball.

Everybody knows each other. These kids have been playing against each other for 10 or 11 years, all the way back to Pop Warner. And the coaches are friends; there's nobody I respect more than those guys.

These are the games you live for, right here. You have electricity in the air ... The adrenaline is flowing ... I think it's going to be the place to be Friday night.

We had a rough year last year. We lost a lot of guys early and we all had to suffer together. But I think we really came together.

They scored bang, bang. That's two touchdowns we can't make up. Take those away and who knows what would have happened.

This is going to be a good challenge. They're pretty solid. They're solid up front with the O-line and D-line and they don't make a lot of mistakes. The kids are excited about playing this game and they're excited about playing on turf. We have good speed, so hopefully we can take advantage of that.

It's tough when you've got six, seven guys going both ways. But we're finally getting to where we've been trying to get for the last four years. We've got 57 freshmen and something like 51 JV kids. That's more kids we've had in the program in I don't know how long.

Their quarterback throws the ball extremely well and they do a good job protecting him. They're going to be a challenge, but I think it's a challenge our D is up to meeting.

Chris, as of right now, is the starting QB. He's just a sophomore, so he's going to make sophomore mistakes, but he's getting better by the day. And the exciting part is, we're going to have him a couple more years after this.

They're a solid team. If anybody watched the McQueen film, they really only gave up 14 points. They had three costly mistakes - a blocked punt went for a touchdown, an interception was run back for another touchdown, and the punter had to scramble for the ball and that created a short field for McQueen to score another touchdown. Take those mistakes away and that was a close game.

They're one of the better 3A teams in the state, so it will be a good challenge. I expect they'll be tough, like always. They have good talent and they throw a lot of different things at you.

They're all athletic, they can run and they can catch, so we're excited there.

They're going to come out here and play hard. They have something to prove after last week, so I expect a real tough game.

He basically never came off the field for two years.

The last three or four years, we've started league with a loss and it's come back to hurt us. Bottom line, we would have gone to the playoffs the last two years if we would have won one more game, so this game here is huge.