Aggie Flashback former Texas A&M quarterback Charlie Milstead

Key quotes from Charlie Milstead

"I grew up in Tyler and my brother went to A&M. Coach Bryant was a big reason I came (to A&M)."

"You bet. I was following them (when Bryant and the Aggies went 1-9) all the time."

"It was just an exciting time for us (being recruited by Coach Bryant). Coach Bryant was a real gentlemen and a quality football coach as you know"

"It was real exciting (when the Aggies won the Southwest conference championship in 1956) and Coach Bryant made it exciting. He did what everyone expected him to do."

"They (the 1956 team) was just superb. They were great, and that's pretty much all you can say about them. They just had the class, that's all."

"Roddy Osborne and I were alternating pretty much. So Roddy was really the starting quarterback my sophomore year but I played quite a bit."

"We didn't throw very much. If Coach Bryant said it, we did it that's pretty much all. That's all you can say about that."

"He (Coach Bryant) just threw it when he had to and he didn't have to very often. He built in our offensive line to a quality you can't believe and moved them out and we just ran."

"John David Crow was just part of the team. He was a quality guy and a quality football player. He was a part of the team and he understood that and he was just a quality guy.That's all, quality player."

"I don't like he (John David Crow) was a better defensive player. He was a tremendous defensive player but he was a great offensive player too. So it's hard for me to pick if he was better on offense or defense. I thought he was All-American either way."

"He (John David Crow) was unusual. He was a great player and he had a lot of courage on what being a great player was."

"We knew it (the Heisman Trophy) was a big deal but we didn't know the quality of the award ourselves. We're just a bunch of old country boys from east Texas so we didn't know much about the award, we just played."

"Well I think we were all disappointed when (coach Bryant) left. Coach Bryant was a big influence of us coming here (to A&M) so we were really disappointed when he left."

"We didn't have that much influence back in those days (about new coaches) we just came out to play."

"We just kind of ran what he said to run. We threw when he said throw and ran when he said run."

"I don't know (on 9 passing records at A&M). I don't know about that."

"It was just a tremendous honor (playing at A&M) and we came to play and that's what we did."

"That was a real thrill (being inducted to the Texas A&M Hall of Fame). Certainly not an individual honor, it was a team honor and that was good for our team."

"It's just a real pleasure for me (to see A&M progressing and have family ties with A&M). It's a quality deal."