As it turned out, I guess that onside kick wasn't the best thing to open the half, but I was looking for some spark to get our emotion going and allow us to compete, ... We just made too many mistakes, and you can't do that against a team like this. You have to be able to play at a high energy level and with hope, and we couldn't get anything going to give us that hope.

Joe Thompson

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There was no way he was going to make (the kick), no way. There was just no way we were going to lose. Our defense had worked too hard to lose.

— Mike Thompson

He didn't say, 'I'm going to kick down this wall. I've heard him talk about it, and he was honest about what he did. He said, 'I'm going to win this championship, and this is what I've got to play with.' He wasn't even thinking about anything else, but they never listened to him. So he's not the one perpetuating the lie. We all are. It's crazy.

— John Thompson

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I told him about the car story. He got a kick out of it.

I was willing to kick it, but it was a wide open lane, so I went straight down.

I'm getting a lot of deep touches. And when I screen, they kick it out and I'm open. I'm making all the easy plays. I'm not trying to make anything hard or overdo things.

— Alexander Johnson