"Vick is the most exciting player in college football over the last 20 years."
    - Beano Cook, ESPN analyst

"(Vick is) the best football player in the country, and the best football player I've seen in 22 years of college coaching."
    - Bobby Wallace, Temple head football coach

"I think if Michael Vick is a stock, I'm buying 100 shares right now, at any price. To run for 215 yards against a good college team (Boston College) illustrates what a man-against-boys world he's playing in right now."
    - Peter King, CNNSI.com

"He's gonna be one of the great ones in the NFL. If I had any draft picks, I'd give them up for the next couple of years to get him."
    - Mike Ditka, CBS studio host

"It's nothing like I've seen before. He's one of a kind."
    - Lenny Walls, Boston College defensive back

"I've never seen anyone like you before in my coaching career"
    - Boston College defensive coordinator Frank Spaziani to Vick after the BC game

"You can't prepare for Michael Vick because you don't know what he's going to do," BC coach Tom O'Brien said. "That's the beauty of his game. I've never seen anyone run like him. Maybe more athletic or faster teams can get to him. I don't know but we couldn't."
    - Tom O'Brien, Boston College head coach

"Vick is one of those players whose talents are done a disservice by statistics. But for those of you who insist on it, be advised that he rushed for a school-record 210 yards and three touchdowns, one of them an 82-yard gallop that Eaglefolk will be talking about for years, in the Hokies' 48-34 victory over the Eagles. So there. You have your statistics. But if you watch the numbers instead of watching the kid, it's like reading the score to Gershwin's ``Rhapsody in Blue'' without bothering to listen to the music. Vick is pure dazzle, a young quarterback who seems to have it all - the arm, the speed, the smarts, the hustle . . . the duende. Duende?"
    - Steve Buckley, The Boston Herald

"Michael Vick had not put up the statistics that matched the superlatives he inspired before the season. He knew it, and it frustrated him. Today, he demonstrated what a quarterback can accomplish when he is angry and determined. Unstoppable."
    - Joe Drape, New York Times

"In the end, it just wasn't a fair fight: 1 vs. 11. Virginia Tech's one-man gang of a quarterback, Michael Vick, confused, confounded, and dominated Boston College's young and inexperienced defense by scoring three touchdowns and rushing for a career-high 210 yards to lead the No. 4 Hokies to a 48-34 victory yesterday before a sellout Alumni Stadium crowd of 44,500."
    - Michael Vega, The Boston Globe

"If defeat is an education, then the Scarlet Knights must have Ph.D.s. This time, Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick was the teacher, and oh what a lesson he gave them."
    - Kevin T. Czerwinski, Bergen County Record

"He is not so untouchable, this Michael Vick. He may be strong and swift, with the fastest feet and the strongest arm anywhere, and he may be the best college football player in the land. But yesterday, Rutgers refuted the notion no one can get to the Virginia Tech quarterback. Getting to Vick, it turns out, is a relatively simple matter. Getting him down? Now we have a problem."
    - Brad Parks, The Star-Ledger

"In Tech's impressive dismantling of East Carolina 10 days ago, Vick didn't have to play spectacularly. To his credit, he didn't try. His refusal to force it, amidst expectations and Heisman hype, is one of his strengths."
    - Jack Bogaczyk, The Roanoke Times

"Saying Virginia Tech's Michael Vick is an outstanding college quarterback is like calling Elvis a good entertainer, Charlie Parker a fine jazz musician, Pablo Picasso an accomplished painter. Some people follow. Others lead. Some, such as Vick, do more than lead. They change the course of their chosen field of endeavor."
    - Richard Scott, SportsWritersDirect

"Mother Nature had her way last Sunday night with Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick. Neither rain nor an upset-minded Akron team was going to stop Tech's Superman on Saturday afternoon at a sold out Lane Stadium."
    - Teddy Paynter, Bluefield Daily Telegraph

"OK, so only one precinct has reported. Face it, no matter how you look at it, sophomore quarterback Michael Vick did nothing Saturday to hurt his Heisman Trophy campaign. In a performance that old, stiff-armed John Heisman undoubtedly would have loved, Vick was responsible for 288 total yards and four touchdowns as No. 10 Virginia Tech ripped Akron 52-23 in both clubs' season openers at rainy Lane Stadium."
    - Randy King, Roanoke Times

"Electricity seems to follow Michael Vick. It was created for him in the preseason on the cover of Sports Illustrated's college football edition. It came close to him last Sunday when Virginia Tech's season opener was canceled by a thunderstorm. Yesterday, when the Hokies finally opened their 2000 season, Vick generated his own electricity. The sophomore quarterback's Heisman Trophy campaign got off to a splendid start as Tech clubbed Akron 52-23 in front of 56,272 rain-pelted fans at Lane Stadium. Thunderstorms allegedly were in the area. They didn't strike. Vick did."
    - Mike Harris, Richmond Times-Dispatch

"And everyone thinks Michael Vick is electric?"
    - Jack Bogaczyk, Roanoke Times

"Now we know what it takes to stop Michael Vick. The great defensive coordinator in the sky provided the answer Sunday night with a terrifying thunderstorm that postponed the Black Coaches Association Classic between Virginia Tech and Georgia Tech."
    - Robert Anderson, Bristol Herald Courier

"Sports analysts, forever looking for comparisons, struggle when trying to place Vick in a historical context. They don't know if he better resembles Steve Young with Tony Dorsett's running ability or Barry Sanders with Dan Marino's arm. Or, and this is the question that has come up time and again since his performance in the Sugar Bowl, is Vick a new kind of quarterback, the next step in football's evolutionary ladder, an athlete who single-handedly reinvents how his position is played?"
    - John Ed Bradley, Sports Illustrated

"Florida State's players don't offer compliments very often, but to a man, the Seminoles gave post-Sugar Bowl props to Virginia Tech's living, breathing contrail. Vick is the best thing to come out of Virginia since baked ham and Sam Snead. I'd pay to watch him throw skeleton drills."
    - Gene Wojciechowski, ESPN The Magazine

"Michael just captured people's imagination last year and he did it on a national stage. I've probably been asked more pure football questions about Michael Vick than any other player since this league has started."
    - Mike Tranghese, BIG EAST Football Commisioner

"Michael Vick is probably the best quarterback in America. There's not a team at any level that's got an answer to him."
    - Paul Pasqualoni, Syracuse head football coach

"Here is college football's prospectus in the Commonwealth of Virginia, with two big-time programs: The ACC is Florida State and the other guys. The Big East is Michael Vick and the other guys."
    - Jack Bogaczyk, The Roanoke Times

"Michael Vick has picked up 100 yards' worth of new adjectives to put before his name since this time last year. Then, he was the unknown redshirt freshman set to start at quarterback for Virginia Tech. Now? Take your pick: national championship runner-up, media darling, autograph favorite, Internet web site subject, linebacker target. And of course, the piece de resistance: Heisman Trophy favorite."
    - Tara Sullivan, Bergen Record

"Welcome to Michael's World - a traveling media event brought to you by Virginia Tech football and starring the most precocious dazzler to stroll a college campus since Brooke Shields graced Princeton."
    - Bob Lipper, Richmond Times-Dispatch

"Vick's the real deal. He's so exciting and it seems like every time he gets his hands on the football, he can take it to the house and score. I've never seen anyone like him."
    - FOX football analyst John Madden

"This guy is as good as anybody I've ever seen, if not better. He's going to be a lot of fun to watch in years to come. If he decides to stay in college football for a few years, he could win a couple of Heismans"
    - John Saunders, ABC Sports

"Somebody asked me, 'Would you rather play Virginia Tech without Vick or (defensive end Corey) Moore,' I said Vick. We can double team Moore. There isn't a darn thing you can do about Vick. When we made some of our best defensive plays, he ran 50 yards. I knew he was good but I didn't know he was that good."
    - Florida State coach Bobby Bowden

"He's real. It's like trying to keep a 2-year-old baby in a crib. That guy is awesome. He's got my vote all the way. He isn't going to be there three more years. He's got the Heisman next year. I don't know who else can beat him."
    - Florida State safety Sean Key

"He's better than what we saw on film. And that's saying a lot because we were in awe of him on film. By the third quarter, our defense was exhausted. It was like chasing a chicken or a cat around. Everywhere you look, he's there. And once you get there, he's not."
    - Florida State defensive end David Warren

"Michael Vick is the best player we've played against this year. If it wasn't for him, they wouldn't have gotten here."
    - Florida State defensive lineman Chris Woods

"This kid has a monstrously-huge future in this game."
    - Chris Fowler, ESPN

"Three suggestions for Michael Vick's Heisman campaign next season: Stay healthy. Keep winning. Pay full price for all new clothes. He does that, and the Heisman might be decided by Columbus
. We have seen the future of college football, and he throws left-handed for Virginia Tech."
    - Mike Lopresti, USA Today

"Is there anyone in the world who doesn't know Michael Vick? Not now. Not after the performance he put on at the Louisiana Superdome on Tuesday night. With all apologies to Sugar Bowl most valuable player Peter Warrick, the most dazzling player on the dome carpet in the Sugar Bowl national title game was Vick."
    - Randy King, Roanoke Times

"It's easy to picture Vick winning the Heisman Trophy next season as just a redshirt sophomore and riding that cloud straight into the NFL draft as the hottest ticket going."
    - Tom Robinson, The Virginian-Pilot

"When you have a Michael Vick at quarterback, one thing you're going to realize is going to be great plays, but there are also going to be some plays made that you just kinda scratch your head. That's what he does. But, Michael Vick, in my opinion is one of the most special players. It's going to be a lot of fun. He's a freshman. If he stays with it and this team stays with it, he can win a couple of Heisman Trophies."
    - CNNSI.com's Trev Alberts

"Please understand something. In the long and glorious history of college football we have collectively witnessed all manner of dazzling virtuoso runners from the quarterback position. We have seen the Tarkentons and the Mannings (Archie, that is) and the Fluties, and when each one comes along we shake our heads and say, ''Wow, we've never seen anything like this,'' when, of course, we have. Well, in the case of Vick, we haven't. This kid is the end of that particular evolutionary chain. We never really have seen anything like Vick, and neither has Bobby Bowden."
    - Bob Ryan, Boston Globe

"It would be simple and convenient to compare Virginia Tech's Michael Vick to, say, Steve Young or Randall Cunningham. But it also would be a little unfair. It wouldn't do the Hokies' dynamic freshman quarterback justice, for as Florida State discovered in last night's national championship game, Vick may be unlike any player the game ever has seen."
    - Michael Smith, Boston Globe

"It arrived four days late but just as feared, menacing and mindless, tailed by many, touched by few. Michael Vick's dazzling display was just the beginning of what is to come from him. It appeared in college football's national championship game, but it wasn't so much a player as a virus, rearranging the field, confusing the witnesses, altering the future. It didn't win. But it will. Y2Vick. His name is Michael Vick, and he's got next. Take that back. He is next."
    - Bill Plaschke, Los Angeles Times

"Virginia Tech quarterback Michael Vick's promotional campaign for the 2000 Heisman Trophy began on Tuesday night in a 46-29 loss to Florida State at the Nokia Sugar Bowl."
    - Steve Richardson, The Dallas Morning News

"Vick came in this season and instantly gave the Hokies the one thing they had always lacked - a potent offense that is difficult to defend and able to strike at any time."
    - Marlon W. Morgan, Jacksonville Times-Union

"The 19-year-old Vick has the quicksilver feet of a Bourbon Street tap dancer. Time after time he appeared trapped by the swarming Seminoles, only to turn escape into an art form ... But in Michael Vick, the game gained a new prince."
    - Joe Biddle, The Tennessean

"In quarterback Michael Vick, Virginia Tech has a quarterback who any coach would trade a half a dozen scholarships to get."
    - Mark Blaudschun, The Sporting News

"For those trying to predict what the Four Horsemen and the Galloping Ghosts of the next 100 years might look like, there was Virginia Tech's 19-year-old quarterback, Michael Vick. A mere freshman, he already appears blessed with computer-enhanced running and passing skills overwhelmingly perfect for this high-speed digital age."
    - Joe Drape, The New York Times

"The X-Factor is redshirt freshman Michael Vick, about as good a young quarterback as you'll find. He has great touch on deep passes and as a runner, is tailback fast. He does things that even gave him pause."
    - Chris Dufresne, Los Angeles Times

"But what sets Vick apart is his speed. He averaged 5.3 yards a carry, and if you don't count sacks and other lost-yardage plays the number is nearly eight. Vick is a rarity in the college game - a quarterback as elusive as a tailback who can throw, too.
    - Michael Rosenberg, Detroit Free Press

"More impressive than the statistics, though, is the sheer wonder of his seemingly effortless 60-yard passes and his uncanny knack for finding room to run. That combination leaves Florida State coach Bobby Bowden declaring Vick the prototype of future college quarterbacks. But that combination is nothing without poise."
    - Vahe Gregorian, St. Louis Post-Dispatch

"Vick, a freshman, was spectacular Tuesday night, and he'll be back for more games like these. Keep in mind that those were some pretty good FSU athletes wheezing and winded in his wake, and he was better than any of them."
    - Dan Le Batard, Miami Herald

"Vick almost single-handedly ruined the night for the Seminoles, running for 97 yards and one touchdown and passing for 225 yards and another score. Vick killed with the option, killed with the scramble, killed with passes back against the grain of the rush and eluded tacklers."
    - Steve Elling, Orlando Sentinel

"Bring Vick, a redshirt freshman, back to New Orleans in another month and he might weave down Bourbon Street untouched during Mardi Gras."
    - B.G. Brooks, Denver Rocky Mountain News