Mark Richt Quotes (164 Quotes)

He eventually let Charles Grant, Verron Haynes, Randy McMichael and Tim Wansley watch from the sidelines against Arkansas State. After the Bulldogs beat the Indians 45-17, the first guy there to congratulate me with a big grin was Charles Grant, ... That showed me a lot.

Overall, it was fairly sloppily played offensively, but there was some beauty in our ability to run the ball.

You got to give them credit. It takes guts to run that.

You've got to go to the line of scrimmage with a couple of options, ... I took some of those out of his hands. I probably hurt him more than I helped.

He think that's his most natural position, ... He likes (the middle) the best. His body type you wouldn't draw up for a (middle linebacker), but he lays the wood probably better than any of our linebackers

They are a little different than some people we play. But it is not a smoke-and-mirror team. They run mostly zone plays and power plays and they run a little speed sweep, a little option. They love to establish the run. Most of their big plays passing come off the play action.

We put the onus on the defense one more time and they made the plays again, thankfully. Running game, field position, defense. It isn't pretty sometimes.

I think we'll keep our poise. I think we'll fight hard. I think that'll happen. Are we good enough to beat Tennessee That I don't know. We'll have to improve in all areas, but when it comes to fighting a full 60 minutes, I think we've proven over the last four or five years we'll do that.

We were all excited about how the interview was going. I was thrilled to have him back, but it was a little bittersweet because we saw what Coach Ball had to offer also. This time around when a position became available I didn't need to do any interviewing.

Right now, we think he'll be 100 percent. Monday was the first time we let him do everything, and he had no setbacks. I watched him close, and I saw no signs of him limping around or gimping around.

On offense, we're pretty good. We could be a lot more than good.

When I'm looking for a quarterback, the first thing I look for is the ability to throw the football. That's something that most people take as a given, but it's something you've got to have. From the film I saw on Matthew, he makes every throw you can ask a guy to make.

He's grown up a Bulldog. His grandfather, his father, his uncle all played for Georgia, Georgia football is in his blood. I think it does help.

He has a great attitude every day in practice. He works hard in the games. He's making plays, he's pushing the pile, he's making people double-team him. He's been keeping people off our linebackers and he's really playing pretty well so far.

I've learned to appreciate every victory. I'm not going to apologize for it. We've just got to get better.

You have no prayer of simulating in practice everything they have done in the past,

Georgia's our home, period. That's just the way it is. I've said it since the day I got here, unless Georgia wants us to leave, this is where we're going to be.

We need Brandon and Andy to have confidence in that snap and hold right now. It's not happening right now and it's getting in their head a little bit.

I have to tell them that victories are very, very precious in the SEC, ... I'm not fibbing a bit when I say I'd be thrilled to have a one-point victory. Even if it was 3-2, I could probably swallow that.

The good news, ... is that some guys have been able to come in and get some experience.

It's some of our guys' first game on the road, and it really can jolt your body.

I would think he is going to roll into the fall as the No. 1 guy. I still haven't seen anything to make me think we shouldn't do that.

I think he's still a relatively young kicker, ... It's good to have the confidence to know he can make that kind of kick.

I'm blessed to get paid well as it is. Usually, these types of things take time. Time is more precious to me than the money. I get more time to spend with the family.

We're going to make him a primary target. Now, I don't know how many passes he's going to catch. We could make him the primary target 15 times a game, but we may only throw to him to eight times because he's covered, and he may only catch six. But we're going to have more pass plays than we've ever had geared toward him.

We've got some cushion, but the worst thing in the world we can do is get beat next week. Then we have no cushion. We're only halfway through the schedule. We're not in a position where we can relax.

I've never lost a game for H-O-R-S-E yet at my house,

Not really, for two reasons. Number one, we looked at him and knew he was a very talented guy. We knew he could throw well and was very intelligent. And number two, when you're working with a coach who can make you understand the game and what it is you're trying to accomplish like Coach Spurrier can, you expect the quarterbacks to play well.

I was a little befuddled, ... I've seen guys making plays all the time in practice, and I'm like, 'What's the problem' But when you'd look at the tape, it really was just one guy making a mistake.

My goal is not to cause somebody grief or to make anyone upset, ... My goal is to love these guys and put them in a situation where they can grow up to be the best men they can be. We are an authority over them, and I have influence over them, and I take that responsibility seriously.

Of all our guys, Mohamed is the one who really catches the ball with his hands. Rarely does he let the ball get to his body. For the most part, he goes to the ball and snatches it away from the defensive back better than any guy we have.

We have worked on it a lot, ... (Quarterback D.J.) Shockley just has great voice inflection. He's doing a great job of mixing up the cadence. I bet we're averaging three a game and maybe even more. We've gotten a bunch of people to jump offside just because of our cadence.

When you start talking about national implications, we really don't have much control over that at all.

I'm proud of our guys. You always wonder how your team is going to react to some adversity. We were losing at the half, but the guys did a great job of doing what they had to do to win. Some people may not think it's a beautiful victory, but it is to me.

We have an opportunity this week, if we can find some way to win it, to clinch the Eastern Division. I don't know if that's going to happen or not. We just have to take inventory of who can play right now.

It always helps in recruiting to a certain degree. To finish in the top 10 four straight years is exciting, and we think 10 wins is a pretty good benchmark.

Leonard has got a very strong upside. He's a mismatch problem for a lot of people.

We didn't really do a good job of telling everybody to keep it hush-hush. We just wanted to honor him tonight and show our support.

Going for the fake punt showed a lot of guts and great execution. You've got to give them credit.

I think it is very possible. Very conceivable. Game days are what separate guys. The competition is even enough ... I didn't feel like anybody was pulling away by a long shot in the spring.

Spurrier is one of the best in the business, probably ever, ... I've learned so much just watching.

I liken what's happening there to what's happening to our men's basketball team and Coach Dennis Felton. He's building the program and getting guys who do things right to make a foundation which will last for a long, long time.

I don't know how important it is if they are loud and jumping around. I think it is more important if they play hard and they play disciplined, and they have done that for the most part this season.

If a quarterback places the ball properly, I don't think there's anybody who can cover him. He's just such a big guy. You can't slow him up. You better get to him if you want to cover him.

I felt good when we had them down there because if we get a stop, we're in good shape. But they just executed their offense perfectly. It seemed like their quarterback (White) made the right decision almost every time.

I think his goal is to be a coach and he'll be able to do some things as a student assistant coach that a lot of people can't do. He'll get a couple of years of training that a lot of guys have to wait for until after they graduate.

Our safety play has been outstanding. We haven't gotten too fancy, we have been able to play a good bit of zone coverage, allowing our front seven to hold up against the run.

Last year, they played a bunch of close games. Learning how to win doesn't happen overnight. Coach (Bobby) Johnson has done a good job of teaching that in a real methodical way.

It wasn't quite the way we designed it with Joe stumbling, ... That's not the way it was supposed to go. I'm sure people would have been talking about that play for years if we'd won.

I'm real excited about this class, mainly because of the numbers. We really covered every major position other than the kickers. If these guys unite as a team, behave like they should and work hard like they should, we should be something special three or four years down the road.