Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain Quotes

I am tired of being roasted. I had a great deal of hard luck while manager of the team and somehow or other couldn't get the best out of the material I had at hand.

Every time I got close, somebody seemed to play a little better.

I expect myself to do my job, and that's taking care of the football and converting third downs.

Each game, each series, there's so many different things that are going on and you have to find different ways to impact winning.

People say, 'Is broadcasting the same as coaching?' I say, 'Hell, no.' Coaching, you win and lose. Broadcasting, you don't win and lose. Coaching was a lot bigger than broadcasting.

Football is a game of mistakes. Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins.

When I'm out on the football field, I have so much confidence in what I'm doing.

Players have responsibility, and if they don't do their job, certain things happen. Coaches have responsibility. If they don't do their job, things happen.

Great execution. That's what you have to do when you're playing great teams.

But ultimately it comes down to how the team performs on the day.

It's fun leading this offense. I don't think we've hit our peak.

You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.

Each game we approach like a final. Today it was the opening game at home, we won and showed outstanding football qualities. We will be preparing for the next game the same way.

Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.

For a football coach, there's nothing that matches the pain of a team not playing up to its capabilities.

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

All my coaches tell me that I have been under achieving.

I go out there with whatever the coaches call, and whatever they do, I just go out there, and I'm the player. Coaches coach, and players play.

I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

When you look at myself, I'm a coach, and that's what it's all about. When you're a player, you get criticized, and when you're a coach, you get criticized even more because it's about wins and losses.

Every week, as a staff, you put a plan together and put your players in position to make plays.

I think whether home or away, it's playing a full four quarters, doing good things on offense all the way through the game rather than just in spurts.

When I'm on the field, I'm locked in, focused on my job. I try to have a positive play and try to get points on the board.

The coaches can only put us in the right position, but it's up to the players to take the action.