Blue & Gold Illustrated: America's Foremost Authority on Notre Dame Football
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FROM THE LOCKER ROOM Notre Dame head coach Brian Kelly … On what it took to get to 11-0: "We have a paradigm for winning. It's something we talk about in our locker room. It's called four quarters of winning. "It starts with getting off to a quick start. We talk about getting off to that quick start, how important that is in the first quarter. Second quarter is at- tention to detail. The third quarter is effort and enthusiasm, and the fourth quarter is finish strong. I think that came together in this football game more than any game we've played this year. "Four quarters of winning for us are Everett Golson's preparation earlier in the week: "Obviously, he's a guy that makes explosive plays. He's got the ability to throw it. He can run the football. He's elusive. I think we're seeing a guy that's growing each and every week. "Now, he made some mistakes that a young quarterback has a tendency to make. We've got to kind of slow him down a little bit. But he's defi- nitely on the right path to providing us the offense that we need." Notre Dame senior linebacker Manti Te'o … On if Senior Day was what he ex- those exact pieces that came together today. Getting off to a good start of- fensively I thought was going to be paramount for us. We could then play with a lot of enthusiasm, and not have to press and have all of the things that we've talked about during the year of not playing our best at home." the year: "We're playing really good football at this point offensively and defensively. Our special teams have been okay, but I think offensively we're growing. "We're very explosive. We had On the team getting better late in nine explosive plays in the first half. I think if you match that with what we've done defensively, we're play- ing pretty good football." On Irish sophomore quarterback pected: "Everything and more. There was that moment, and then when Coach took me out, that was another moment. So definitely two things I'll always remember the rest of my life." the fans could recognize him when he was taken out of the game: "For Coach to do that, he could have eas- ily taken us out and not even put us on the field. But it was a TV timeout, and he said I'm going to send you guys out there, and then I'm going to call a timeout, and one by one I'm going to sub you guys out. "That's the type of coach that On when a timeout was called so Coach Kelly is. I'm just very lucky to play for him." experience at Notre Dame: "There are no words that can describe what On what comes to mind about his