Coach Trickett Quotes:
"I don't talk about injuries. I don't care about injuries. If a man goes down, another man comes up."
"I think a lot of people thought I went back to West Virginia to retire," the 58-year-old Trickett says in a rasp that surely makes his players lie awake at night. "And I think, you know, anybody that knows me, I've got a little stuff in my neck. I'm not going to be taken for granted."
"They're going to buy into it or they aren't going to play. I know who's bought into it and who hasn't so far. And that's who is on the front line. If you've got a two- or three-year starter not on the front line, then he's not buying into it. So they're going to buy into it and if they don't we'll throw the guys in there who are buying into it. But I think once you start seeing success and the purpose behind every thing."
"It's almost like this -- have you ever seen a bunch of cattle and things start going bad and they start running around the fence line? What are they looking for? An out. They are looking for a weak spot in the fence. I'm just going to need five or six of those cows in the middle. The rest can go in the slaughterhouse."
I think sometimes if the coach goes, 'Oh my goodness, we've got a problem' then what are the kids going to do? They're going to go, 'Oh my goodness.' If the coach says, 'Don't worry about it. We're still rocking and rolling' then the kids will say, 'Don't worry about it. We're still rocking and rolling.' That's my personality. That's my tempo and that's the way it should be."