Thursday, October 4, 2007

Quote Time

ND is heading back to the Rose Bowl since winning a national championship against Nebraska over eighty years ago, and not too many people are predicting a warm welcome for the Irish. The Bruins have looked pretty solid this year, handling Stanford, BYU, Washington, and Oregon State, but they showed a major spark of inconsistency when they lost 44-6 at Utah.

I don't think we'll have to worry about UCLA being under prepared or unmotivated for us, especially after last year:

On being on a losing team:

Tom Zbikowski: "You're going to win some games; you're going to lose some games. That's a part of being a competitor. You've got to live for another day that you're going to be able to fight and keep competing and try and get a win."

Hopefully this is the week that everything begins to mesh. Notre Dame has shown the ability to move the ball and play good defense, but they have yet to do it for four quarters. Look for ND to come out fighting on Saturday in hopes of their first win.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

word on the street is that the shark may be at the game ready to use his fifth year of eligibility if we are down on the last play

Anonymous said...

Let's give them some Teddy Roosevelt to get them stoked:


It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who errs, and comes short again and again (but)....who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither (the thrill of) victory or (the agony of) defeat.