Steve Spurrier Quotes (220 Quotes)


    We actually get along I think very well, ... I talk with Phil every time I see him.

    I truly believe they're not expecting too much right away, ... They know we're building. You don't go out and trade or get free agents. They understand it may take a little time.

    He needs to get physically a little bigger and stronger. I'm afraid if he gets hit real hard we may be carrying him off the field.

    We realize we have not done anything to earn the spotlight, but we'll take it, ... Hopefully, our play will prove that maybe we deserve it. So that's what we'll try and do Thursday night.

    We believe it is a very similar recruiting class to last year. You never know until about five years from now. We certainly feel the offensive lineman, the defensive lineman and a few players here and there will help our team immediately.


    Blake's got the talent, ... He can make the throws when he moves his feet right. But he steps the wrong way and throws some one-hoppers from time to time, too.

    It's one of the top stadiums in the country. No question. I think it's the largest in the South, so it can get very loud, of course.

    We haven't made a lot of big things happen on special teams, but we haven't had a lot of bad things go against us. So we're probably an average special teams group.

    The atmosphere was wonderful. These fans were alive before the game and through the game.

    It was a lot more fun hanging around the SEC than it was the other league I was in a couple of years,

    If something happened that I pursued it and went after it, I would be trying to redo what we did in 12 years,

    That's fine with me. We played the last five games without him. If he feels like he can contribute over there, that'll be fine. We'll see how it goes. He can always come back to offense if it's not working.

    I guess you guys have to be a coach to understand. Once you spend a year with your guys, that's your team. That's just your team. I try to live in the present.

    He can still play much better, that's what's encouraging. When he does it right, he can make all the throws.

    toward the end there, my give-a-damn was busted. This is not the way I ever coached...I'm not proud of what happened, but there it is.

    Number three, we're going to play very smart and we're not going to beat ourselves. If the other team is better than us and they just out execute us and play better then we can live with that, but we're going to play smart and give ourselves every opportunity to win the game.

    I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.


    You can only play so much golf and lay around the beach,

    The first few years, throwing was very easy. The defenses weren't geared up for it. Then later the defenses got a lot better toward stooping the pass.

    We have competition for positions all the time. So if some of these other linemen look like they can play better than the linemen we have out there, we'll certainly give them a chance.

    They played smarter. They didn't have near the number of careless penalties that we've had most of the year. That certainly gave us a good chance.

    Patrick did some good and bad things. That's why he needs to play. He got to throw 24 balls in playing the entire first half. He was trying to throw that ball away down there in the red zone, but man, he needs to throw it away in the dirt or something.

    We just try to improve and improve and improve. We don't worry about how we look so much. We stayed healthy and that's always, I think, the number-one priority.

    When we'd win the SEC we'd get back late and Deano would keep it open for us,

    We'll have to see how it all plays out. Certainly Blake is our starter. He threw some errant balls out there today. Blake didn't play his best he knows that. He's still the starter, but it was encouraging that Cade sort of proved that if something happens he can go play. We thought he would be. We'll try to get Cade as ready as possible. He's definitely second right now.

    It was a tough night. But we're one and oh and we're not going to sit around and cry about it.

    produce a winning team within three years or walk away.

    So late in the contest, backup Eric Kresser threw a quick screen to backup Travis McGriff for the landmark score. They didn't seem too mad about it, ... They only had about 10,000 in the stadium with about five minutes left.

    We'll go let Antonio throw it around and run it around and see if we can make some plays and stay on the field offensively and slow them down defensively, ... If we do those things we certainly believe we have a chance to beat Auburn.

    By next year, Spurrier calculates that about half his team will be his players, and he believes he can bring in the talent necessary to be successful in the SEC. His recruiting coordinator is former Florida State quarterback Rick Stockstill. And he's wonderful, ... The best I've been around.

    What we know about them is they had a tough, struggling year last year, but that year is history.

    I salute and praise the people in Shreveport for having this bowl for 30 years. I know it's not always easy keeping these things alive, but I think the Independence Bowl is the 11th-oldest bowl in the country, so they have done a super job here.

    It's very good. Our players enjoyed it. It's the soft grass instead of that hard stuff. It's excellent.

    If I ever call that play again, hit me over the head with a 2-by-4. We couldn't make that all year. When we missed that third-and-1, it was all Missouri.

    Certainly that Georgia job is one of the best in the country.

    He's taken his punishment and didn't whimper or complain. He served his time and is ready to go.

    We're not a great passing team because our quarterback is not a scrambler and our protection is pretty good, not super, so we have to pick our spots, we just can't fire it 35, 40 times or something bad is going to happen,

    It seemed like we were playing catchup (the whole game). We were out of it early in the third quarter. We thought we could change something up with Antonio in there but he had a tough time communicating the plays.

    We weren't quite good enough. We didn't block well enough or tackle well enough and that was the difference in the ball game. A little block here, a little tackle there.

    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.

    Sidney had a super game. He played his heart out. He made some big catches for us. Unfortunately, it wasn't enough to win the game.

    In games at Florida, we'd have 14, 16 possessions at least,

    I didn't know you were supposed to get a ring. I've never done that. Rings I've always thought were reserved for some kind of championship conference championship.

    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.

    The whole line has been so-so. There's not really a standout player thus far in the first two games.

    I did visit Alabama. Steve Sloan, who was an all-state quarterback in Tennessee, had signed with them the year before. I think I went by Bryant's office Sunday morning and met briefly with him. That was about it. I wasn't high on their list probably. They had Joe Namath, Steve Sloan and a bunch of other guys. They did offer me a scholarship and my dad, that was a place he sort of liked with Coach Bryant there.

    When you have 40 days off, as both us and Missouri have had, some teams can be better or worse, so hopefully we'll be better.

    It hurts more. He's on his last chance around here. He knows it, and we'll see if he can make it.

    We're probably going to give him a game ball come Wednesday when the team gets together. Bernard made tackles all over the place and was hustling around, playing his assignments probably as well as anybody on the team.


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