"Actually, when I got down in my stance, this if the crazy thing, I saw myself, I envisioned myself blocking that kick. And me and Adam (Gotsis) looked at each other, said, 'Man, let's get some push on this guy and just got our hands up. Luckily, it just hit my hand." — Tech defensive tackle Patrick Gamble, who blocked Roberto Aguayo's field goal at the end of the game
"It feels great to be part of a play like that, a game like that that's going to go down in history. We're going to be old and gray one day, and I can tell my child about this. It's a blessing." — Gamble
"I don't think I've ever felt that much energy in our locker room after a win. I just think this win really gives us a lot of confidence and really shows us we can play with anybody." — Gamble
"We go over that scenario all the time in practice. It clicked in my head that time had expired, so kind of picked it up and went to the field." — Lance Austin, who returned the blocked kick for the game-winning touchdown
"When I came around, it was like a wall. The teammates did a great job of blocking." — Austin
"They fought and fought and fought. We got so many guys hurt and beat up and another guy would go in and play. That's a good football team. They're very talented. They were playing hard, as well. It's great to get out of this skid. Now we've got to see if we can take that momentum and go with it." — coach Paul Johnson
"First of all, give credit to Georgia Tech. They played a great ballgame. They played very hard and they were opportunistic in how they played, took advantage of things. We had opportunities, they had opportunities. We have to look at our mistakes, which is a bunch of them. We left too many points on the board in the red zone." — FSU coach Jimbo Fisher
"We knew they could return it. We needed to cover it. That's finishing the game. We know when there's a blocked kick, you've got to cover it. We talk about that all the time. They got it and went down the sideline, and we didn't get him on the ground." — Fisher on the game-ending play
"They put the game into our hands to an extent. They tried to see what we could do. We tried to respond, just make plays for our team on the edge, whether it was blocking for each other or extending plays." —A-back Isiah Willis on the A-backs' role
“Throwing that (second) pick kind of charged me up. That’s just something I don’t do. It was a bad play on my part. I put the defense in some tough situations tonight. I pretty much gave up 10 points on my own. So they fought hard. They had my back tonight. From that point on, I knew I had to do something to
help this team win." — Tech quarterback Justin Thomas
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