North Carolina State Quotes
September 21, 2002 | Football
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Head Coach Chuck Amato
"To score after all that went on in the 4th quarter, after a 38-10 lead, to go to overtime 45-45, that was amazing, I have never seen anything like that. There was a lot of character on both sides of the field today."
"Nobody said it would be easy coming out here. This is Big 12 country and football is big in Texas. Even when we were up 38-10, I kept telling them that it is not over. They are not going to give up, they have a lot of weapons and a great quarterback."
Quarterback Philip Rivers
"We never quit, even when they had the momentum, and they we really playing well. Overall I though I played pretty well except for the interception."
"You could defiantly hear the fans they were great and they were really into the game. It made it fun to play. This was a great environment to play in, a great state to play in and a great team to play."
Linebacker Freddie Aughtry-Lindsay
"This was a great game between two great teams. Texas Tech is a great team and we are also a good team. We never quit."
"During their comeback, we just stuck with what was working and kept playing hard. They fought hard to come back and we fought hard to win."
TEXAS TECH QUOTES
Coach Mike Leach
On game
"I thought we played as good as any team in the country, or at least any team I've ever seen for about twenty minutes, now we just have to have to ability to do it for sixty minutes."
"The disappointing thing was that we lost it, we lost this game at the beginning of the third quarter."
"I've been in a lot of back and forth games, but I've never been in one where you score that much that fast.
On game
"We came into the game with our heads up, but we lost, so next week in practice we have to put this behind us and get ready for our next game."
"In the third quarter we started off a little slow, but we kept on pushing. We made up our minds that we were going to put the ball in the end zone."
Quarterback Kliff Kingsbury
On game
"It's tough, you kind of live for games like this, but we had our chances and it didn't come down to one play."
On emotional level of game
"That's football to me, you can only control what happens on the field so much. There's going to be highs and lows in every game, that's the way it is."
