Takeo Spikes

Spikes: A lot of people used to blame him. But hey, don't get mad at me, you get mad at what went on during the week.

Spikes: Once you have an offense down like that, in order to be a great defense you don't let up, don't take the foot off the pedal. We're definitely not feeling sorry for anybody. You should have prepared better.

Spikes: The way this past season ended, we felt there was a lot of unfinished business we needed to take care of and it started with this first game. We were very eager to just go out and show everybody that there was not going to be a drop-off and to prove to ourselves that in order to get to where we want to go this is the first step that needed to be taken.