Field goals are the second-best thing you can get. The first thing you want are touchdowns, but you don't turn your back on field goals, because they are points. But we just have to have better balance.
Quotes about touchdowns (15 Quotes)
I played football for a team called the East Dragons on the east side of town. We only had six regular season games. And six games I played tail back and I had 18 touchdowns in six games. That's when I knew I had some athletic ability.
We definitely want to rush for touchdowns, and I'd say it's a little bit of a surprise that we haven't. I just have to believe that eventually, we'll do it because of Clinton's skill and our ability to get into the right scheme and right plan.
Usually when you get field goals and you don't get touchdowns, it comes back to haunt you later in the game. Sure enough, it did. That just shows you that you really have to capitalize when you get that opportunity.
Leinart has opened other doors for his teammates, using his accurate passes to find Jarett (13 of his 55 catches went for TDs), Smith (three touchdowns in the Orange Bowl) and Byrd, or set up the running attack. Jarrett succeeded his body double, Mike Williams, using speed (4.4 seconds over 40 yards) and a 40-inch vertical jump to create nightmarish mismatches for cornerbacks. The top reserve receiver is 6-5, 220-pound freshman Patrick Turner, who also has 4.4 speed. He's the real deal, ... He's going to be in the mix right away.
(Wide receiver Johnny Lee) Higgins got a lot of attention last week because he scored three touchdowns, but Ebell can hurt you just as much. They don't run the spread offense, but they've got enough threats to stretch you across the field and make things difficult.
It's very frustrating. It's really embarrassing. This is professional football, not high school football. Even in high school, they score a lot of points. We need to score a lot of touchdowns. The defense is holding us in games. We need to hold up our end of the bargain.
I don't care to be remembered as the man who scored six touchdowns in a game. I want to be remembered as a winner in life.
I thought we played a very solid game on both sides of the ball. Getting those first two touchdowns early in the game really set the tone for us. We wanted to get ahead pretty quick.
We wanted to grind it out. I wanted to throw the ball more, but when you are ahead by three touchdowns you don't want to do that too much. What I was really impressed with was to give our seniors a break on defense, we had a couple of sophomores come in and the beat went on. One (touchdown) squirted out the back door but as far as I am concerned we pitched a shutout. It was pretty good.
The Seahawks did a nice job offensively keeping us off balance, ... I asked our defense to put in a new coverage, and (the Seahawks) scored two touchdowns on that coverage. So, that's my fault.
I have an appreciation for what Young and Rice did as a tandem. They threw a lot of touchdowns, but those touchdowns were helping the team win football games. That's what Marvin and I are about. He and I have definitely done some things together, but it's all come along with helping our team win games.
It's so early, and I don't want to proclaim him as an answer to all our problems, ... But he's off to the kind of start we needed him to have. ... You make first downs, you eat up clock, you score touchdowns, you keep your quarterback in third-down-and-operable situations and the play-action pass is going to be that much better with (Williams) in there.
After the game, most of the Trojans, decked out in their all black travel warm-ups, carried pizzas onto the bus for the short flight back to Los Angeles. One of the last players out of the locker room was White, who had gotten his hands on an Arizona State towel with the team's mascot Sparky on it. Right above the devil White had scrawled the word, 'KILLA' and hung it from his waistline for all to see. Two years ago in the same building, with USC down in the second half, White ran for 140 yards and two touchdowns to lead USC to their first of now 26 consecutive wins. I love playing here, ... I don't know if it's the heat or what, but I love this place.
Sometimes people overlook my stats, but I'm not like the kind of guy to go out there to get a bunch of attention anyway, ... I just go out there and play. I had over 1,300 yards (combined in 2004) in 13 games and 10 touchdowns, and it is not easy in the NFL to accomplish that.