Ron Zook Good Quotations

I wish he wasn't out for the season, but it doesn't bother me that he'll miss our game. He's such a great competitor and such a good person. You hate to see anything like that happen to such a great kid.

So guys, I've got some good news and some bad news, ... How about the good news first. God knows we could use some after last weekend. Well, it's official, I'm still your coach!

He hasn't made the strides that I'd like to see in the weight room. That's impossible. He's burning the candle at both ends. It's important that he has a very good summer in the weight room and get a little bit stronger.

I think he's going to get bigger and better. He's going to play a lot of football here. If he continues to progress the way he has this spring and in the weight room this winter, there's no reason why he can't be an awfully good player in the Big Ten Conference.

We didn't play with emotion. We didn't play with the free rein and the emotion you need to be a good team.

We have guys who can back up and get in there, but one play and all of a sudden you're out of depth. I don't feel as good as I would if we had Justin in there.

We saw a lot of good things early on from the first team offense. When we got into the fast-tempo mode it caused the defense some problems.

We're using what we feel is everybody we have, ... The good players have to play good, and everyone has to play as hard as they possibly can play.

A specialist worked with him and we feel very good about him,

The way we handle adversity is going to determine what kind of team we are. I told them last night that this is our first true test of adversity and how we bounce back, how we handle it, and how we compete against a good Iowa football team will determine what kind of football team we are, and where we are at.

I know there will be an all-out assault on running backs a year from now, and there are some really good running backs in the vicinity.

It's important that this game is competitive. This should give us a good chance and, hopefully, be entertaining for our fans.

It was not bad, it was really a pretty good practice, but we can be better. We're at the point where we need to stress to be as good as we can be all the time.

These guys are in as good a shape as they've ever been in their lives, there's no question about that. What happens is the expectation is that we're going to go out, we're going to go through practice and just get through it. As far as we've got to go, we can't do that. In my mind the game's tomorrow. It's not in September; it's tomorrow.

We just got worn out a bit, ... They did a good job coming back and we just tried to fend off the onslaught.