Steve Roberts Quotations

I was taken off-guard by our start. I thought our team was prepared mentally and emotionally. As much as they spread the field, there's a lot of running room. Even if you play perfectly.

I have a very strong record of stern and strict discipline. But, I am also fair and we're fair to our program and we want to be fair with Chris. In our assessment of the situation, Chris did not act inappropriately.

He is very, very physical, very big. He can fly and he has a great arm. He's going to be difficult to stop. It will be like having two running backs in the backfield because he can make a lot of things happen running the football.

I am very encouraged by the quality of the applications we have received, and I'm confident this selection process will produce an excellent new director for SMPA.

We told our guys after the interception that we were going to keep the ball on the ground and we were going to force them to stop our ground game, ... We were going to run it right down the pipe and see what happens.

We switched some things up at halftime, we moved our press up into a full court and we started to create a lot of shots and scored a lot of points because of that. I had a chance to use 12 players in this game and that was a key. Our depth just wore them down.

He was real sharp for the most part.

He was one of the first people to recognize this area for its aesthetics.

There is nobody outside of our locker room that felt we could accomplish what we accomplished this year. There's nobody outside of our locker room that predicted that we could be in the situation that we were in.

Our kids just have fun. We're built for ski racing.

It depends on your situation. Perhaps you think you can do a better job with the money than the lottery, then you take the cash. It's probably six of one, half-dozen of the other.

I was very pleased with the way we bounced back defensively after last week. I thought we played much better and obviously we still made some mistakes. We played very well in the first half and didn't give them much.

I thought Antonio did not have his best first quarter. He played much better in the second quarter. Shermar came in the second half and had a big run for us.

We work hard, we have a lot of fun as a team, and it pays off on days like today.

We're representing a lot of groups. We're representing all the underdogs. We're representing the state of Arkansas. We're representing the Sun Belt Conference. We're representing a lot of frustrated fans for the last 30 years or so that haven't been to a bowl game.

We are aware of the situation with Chris Littleton and have conducted our own investigation and are continuing to do so.

A lot of things that we've been able to experience that nobody in our program has ever experienced before. So it's very, very exciting.

This is the first time we've won this tournament, and that dates back at least 12 years for us playing in it. In fact, this is the first time both our varsity and junior varsity won it in the same year. This is a great start to our season.

The negative is, it calls for creative planning. Coaches are creatures of habit, and it causes you to have to do some different things in your practice and planning.

Not only did Ronald Reagan do this in '76, ... Richard Nixon followed this exact same playbook in the '60s -- helped him get the nomination in '68.

That's definitely a homeless car. All his worldly goods are in there.

At this time, I have to do what's fair to every individual involved, and especially Chris Littleton. So at this time, he is still on tap to play.

If there was a game in town, most everybody came.

Antonio's an outstanding contributor to our football team. A leader, without a doubt.

The first thing I want to say is how proud I am of this football team. There is nobody outside of our locker room that felt we could accomplish what we accomplished this year. ... I am proud to be a football coach of champions.

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for a lot of what they did offensively.

It's not just his ability. It's not just his talent - the statistics that show up. But it's his heart. It's who he is. It's what he brings to our football team with his willingness to be successful in all phases of his life.

As with all disciplinary situations, they will be fair, they will be stern, they will be strict and demonstrate what's in the best interest of our football team, our university, and of the individual involved. We care deeply for our players.

They do not make a lot of mistakes and they do not miss a lot of tackles. They play very, very sound and you can see that. With all the juniors and seniors starting defensively, you don't expect them to make mistakes and they don't.

They mix in a lot of stunts. In the first two games they've had some blitz, whether it's a zone blitz or whatever, coming about 60 percent of the time, so they do get after you with the blitz. They are very, very physical and very sound in what they do.

They don't work for us. They are trained and equipped by the police department and we like to have them in our buildings, so we take them as they come.

They are doing nothing, nothing to solve this case.

We have a daunting task ahead of us.

I can promise you (from) being in the locker room that our kids don't care if it was 39-36 or 3-0. They are very excited about this win.

Gorham is a really good team. I don't think they could have tried any harder.