He looks like he's been playing running back at least a couple years of high school. I knew he was fast, but when he got out there, well ... I knew he was fast.

For me to be a starting running back in the NFL and somebody says that I could play 16 games, but I won't get 1,000 yards, for me I look at it as a slap in the face. That's one of those slaps where I say, 'OK, you can slap me once. But at the end of the season, I want to make sure I'm hitting you back with a powerful punch.'

I've never spoken to Coach Weber about Patrick. Big-time head coaches know they talk to the high school coach. This is why the top city kids are going outside the state. I'm not trying to belittle Illinois. My son goes there. I love Illinois.

Chris Mullin came in and said he was very proud of us for representing the school the way we did. That meant a lot and made a great day greater.

She put it up on the school bulletin board, and that gave me such a jump-start toward writing more things,

Some of the plays we ran (in high school) were plays we'd been running for eight years.