Gene Chizik Quotes


You've got to stop the run, be physical and then be solid in your coverage issues. You can't let a team that throws it 70 times a game make you into a finesse team. You have to be physical. - Gene Chizik



You would not want to go into this game right now with a lot of young people in your secondary. - Gene Chizik



When you're playing a team that, in some areas, has been tagged as one of the best teams in college football history, that makes it fun. - Gene Chizik



What we're really pleased with is that they played hard. We tried to execute our defense, but we played a lot of base defense. Obviously, we have a lot of work to do on some things. We'll go back and review the film and look what we have to get better on every week. Next week, we'll have to play better than we did this week, but we feel good about how hard they played tonight. - Gene Chizik



What separates him from a lot of the good ones, and why he's a great one, is he's got the mental part of the game as well as anyone I've ever been around. He does a great job of making sure everybody is in line. - Gene Chizik



What I've found is that a lot of times, if a guy is that good that you're spying on him, he's probably better than your spy guy. We've got to have 11 guys spying on him. - Gene Chizik