Urban Meyer Quotes (86 Quotes)

This was our best team win. This is a team that battled through some injury issues, a team that battled through some major, major personnel issues. They're playing with passion. They're hitting people. They're flying around. It was a team taking care of one another.

One of our priorities is protecting the ball, ... That's a big part of winning football games and it's a big part of what we do. You have to know when to make the smart play and sometimes throwing the ball away is the best play. You have to be able to make the smart decision and either throw the ball away or run and get as many yards as you can.

I think it's darn near impossible (to go undefeated),

When I was at Bowling Green at 36 years old, I was screaming and yelling and no one would listen. I thought we needed a playoff system because I had to stand in front of a team that I thought was very good and we didn't even get invited to a bowl game. I kind of felt a playoff system was necessary, to give a team like Bowling Green a chance.

It probably happens more than the opposite. If every great recruit became a great player, you'd have 250 first-round draft picks every year. So I'm not surprised at all (about C.J.'s career). Not because he wasn't a great player, but because that happens

Our seniors did something that hasn't been done. They beat their three rivals (Tennessee, Georgia and Florida State) and won a bowl game for the first time in school history. That's a major deal. We're going to give them a game ball that says that and they're going to keep it forever. That's one of the things they will take to the grave with them.

Obviously, it's a big week, a huge week. We're playing a game that has championship implications in November. That's why you get up. That's why you shave. That's why you eat breakfast in the morning.

Huge concern. Keep Chris healthy.

I think this is all built on what happened in the Swamp against FSU and (feeling like) let's springboard this program where it needs to go. I think the seniors feel an obligation to get this place right and this game is going to make a big impact on getting the University of Florida where it needs to go.

We have four senior offensive linemen and a quarterback who has played three years. Go get six inches and let's go play football.

Alex Smith was the same way at first, ... They're intelligent guys who can overanalyze. So I told Chris to just let it rip and not worry where the ball was going.

I felt momentum slipping. I promised the team we were going to run that because it's really not that hard to do when you have the best football players and guys you trust. I trust those guys with my family. Fourth down and one, go get it. Go get it and give the ball to your best players. What a great effort by Billy.

The hot offenses are the West Coast and the spread. There's a bunch of different styles of each, but the one common theme is you want to force the defense to defend the entire field, as opposed to the I-formation, where a lot of times you have to defend a much smaller area of the field.

I felt we were a little too far out to try a field goal into the wind at that point, but we needed to make something happen after Iowa scored.

Omar's throwing the ball much better, ... He looks like a different guy than when I first saw him. He's an NFL-caliber quarterback. I have already had several people call me about him.

The doctor told me he's 80 percent today, which is very good. He was jogging today.

That was a hell of an atmosphere, ... That's what separates the SEC from every other conference in college football. I mean go to the Swamp, or go here, or go to Alabama.

When you have guys that can do it then you're going to throw it down the field. And we are not a launch-it-down-the-field (team). I've heard some people ask where it is -- it's there. But we're a move-the-ball, move-the-chains offense. And it'll come. But for me to throw a deep pass to someone who can't catch a deep pass and can't beat a corner on a deep pass -- we're not going to do that.

When I was at Bowling Green and 36 years old, I was screaming and yelling . . . that we needed a playoff system.

I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

We're not protecting him very well. That's what happens when a quarterback gets spooked. Even when we're protecting him his feet aren't getting set. We've got to get everything right. We've got to protect him better. We have to make sure we protect him and spend a lot of time working on protecting the quarterback.

He's having a really good spring. He's aggressive and he's a contact player. A lot of times corners, they're like receivers -- they're not the contact player he is. He can be a special player.

We need second-year production out of a first-year offense. When is it going to become Chris Leak's offense That hasn't happened yet. I'm hoping that happens before game week, obviously. That's what we're trying to get done. When that happens, watch out, because the Gators are going to get you.

I understand the hurricane is now in the path. Someone just told me my flight might get canceled . . . so, I don't know.

He may play it straight in the office, but he really is a fun guy who knows how to laugh, and that really paces him through all the hard work.

That was the only time I felt, in these two years, that we weren't prepared to play. For whatever reason and obviously it starts with me, we were not right. So we've got to make sure we're right for this one.

We're anticipating both guys to play ... it's just how much we'll see. Vernell Brown was limited (in practice) again today. Tavares didn't practice. He'll practice tomorrow. He's coming on.

He's earn the starting spot as of now with his work ethic and ability level. He's an athletic guy.

We've been grinding to evaluate what's causing it so we can get guys comfortable in it. Yeah, it's time. It's been time. That's exactly what we've been doing.

It was horrible, ... We beat Utah State 40-20. I remember really well, and it was the ugliest 40 points in the history of college football.

I think Jarvis Moss is on the verge of being not a good player, but a great player.

Go look at the great programs in the country you don't hear that. So we've got to change that mentality. I'm happy to say it's changing very rapidly.

From what I heard they had a lack of depth on the D-line and they had plenty of linebackers so that's a big reason they went to the 3-3, ... But, they're playing it pretty well and now they're about 75-80 of the time three-down.

He felt like it was fundamentally sound, that it wasn't a gimmick, ... Coming from him, that's the ultimate compliment.

Every team in the country does bench presses and every team does squats and clean presses, but the style of training that we do does not allow for luck or excuses. Maybe the ball bounced our way, but we don't believe in luck. I believe that our guys are trained mentally, and I thought they played terrific.

anywhere between eight to 12 times a game.

I've got to go out and recruit (Tuesday). You know what, I can't wait. I would have gone out tonight if it was legal.

I'm really impressed. Florida has not had success the last few bowl games. I really like the attitude that they've brought for the bowl. Their attitude was fantastic. That's a good sign.

Every day he's showing something. He'll probably show something (at practice) today.

I saw today a team that wants to send the seniors out (with a victory). I saw that hunger today.

In the Mid-American Conference, where Bowling Green competed, you could get everywhere by bus, which was perfect for Paul because he hates to fly. Now he has to fly everywhere in the Mountain West. His family loved to tease him, because even on family vacations across country, they had to drive. That's the one funny things about this new job that is going to knock him out of his comfort zone.

This is big, big. I'm going to go out recruiting (Tuesday) and I can't wait.

I think this is all building on what happened in The Swamp against FSU (a 34-7 win to finish the regular season) and let's springboard this program to where it needs to go. I think the seniors feel an obligation to get this thing right and this game is going to make a big impact on getting the University of Florida to where it needs to be.

We had a tackling drill and Earle Bruce was out here. He said No. 82 (Murphy) is one of your best receivers. We did a tackling drill and he was seven-for-seven on making people miss. Some of those guys were 0-for-seven. That's a good sign.

The doctor told me he's 80 percent, which is really good.

It was a great day today. A lot of times you worry about attitudes. It was a great practice.

That's a major deal. We're going to give them a game ball that says that and they're going to keep that forever. That's one they'll take to the grave with them.

Dallas Baker has come a long way. I think Chris has gotten better. He can throw the ball very well. He's our quarterback. He's going to be pushed. There will be some competition, but he's the quarterback at the University of Florida.

I never say I'm proud of a team (after a loss) because I'm not. I see guys acting like they care. The one little glimpse of hope is that I saw people care.

I saw a team today that wants to send the seniors out with a win. These seniors have never won a bowl game.