Steve Spurrier Quotes on Education (13 Quotes)

That's just the way they do it in the NFL, ... But the rule in college is what they call slightly new. That's what they call it, slightly new.

If you want to win, you have to spend money on facilities. You can't give (money) to the athletes, but you can spend anything you want to help them train and eat and live. That's what the big schools are doing.

Hopefully, we'll represent our school, our university and our team in a more proud way this week,

Sidney Rice and Blake and all those guys had some super performances, ... Sidney, you know they're trying to stop him. He's close to unstoppable. Everybody's stoppable but he's some player. Little Kenny McKinley made a bunch of key catches all over the place. It was a fun game. This was big for our football program and the University of South Carolina. Hopefully we can gain some confidence and build on it, and not let it get to us.

We've got a support system that gives our players a wonderful opportunity to graduate. If they go to class and give good effort, they can graduate from this school, and I believe that's important when you go out recruiting.

Blake felt a little pressure and held it too long. He's learning. He's hanging in there.

It's always important to play in the bowl game. All you have to do is look at the other six SEC teams that didn't make it and realize we're in the top half of the SEC. It's certainly fun for all the college kids and coaches to be playing in December, in January. A lot of them are not practicing and wish they were.

Being a bowl team is a wonderful achievement for so many teams, and if you look at the history of the University of South Carolina, a bowl game is pretty good.

We've got area's where we think the freshmen are going to play. Don't want to name them but we've got to wait until they get here and see how fast they can learn.

When you're the head coach in college, the athletic director and president are your bosses, but they do not come in and tell you how to run the football program,

Whoever plays hard, whoever plays well will have a chance to be the captain the next game, ... We're beyond going by years in school.

You check my track record what we did with guys who got in serious trouble and embarrassed our university.

He's still on my team. Because I might would've done the same thing as a college kid when somebody took the bowl game away. ... You get mad and you get over it. Those guys, I don't really have a problem with it.