Steve Spurrier famous quotes

04-17-2025

Will be the 14th time I've coached in Neyland Stadium. ... I've coached there more than some of their head coaches.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Stadiums #Coaches
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Play #Littles #Deceiving
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Real #Tragedy
Itâ€™s easier to win the National Championship than the SEC, ask Nick Saban.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Winning #Championship #Easier
But as coaches, we need to get a little more fire and passion and be more demanding that our guys get the job done. I think players will respond to that, and we'll see.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Jobs #Passion
So I don't really believe that how many years you've had in the league determines how well your players play... Coaching is coaching.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Believe #Player #Years
A swamp is where Gators live. We feel comfortable there, but we hope our opponents feel tentative. A swamp is hot and sticky and can be dangerous. Only Gators get out alive.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Alive #Swamps #Opponents
In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Games #Cartwheels #Stills
I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Player #Games #Two
All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Past #Trying #Way
In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'
-- Steve Spurrier

#Fun #Lying #Mad
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Shoes #University
I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Strong #Thinking
But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Block #Simple
But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Football #Real
I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Believe #Successful
He was the unloving father that I never had, but I still craved his acceptance.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Father #Acceptance #Interesting
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.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Believe #School #Opportunity
You can't spell Citrus without UT
-- Steve Spurrier

#Citrus
So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Team #Two #Half
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Fun #Nfl #Two
Number four, we're going to play like winners, play the game the way it's meant to be played. Don't get full of yourself if something good happens. Don't get too depressed when something bad happens.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Games #Play
The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Years #People #Fields
We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Play #Lsu #Anxious
Our coaches want to be a part of South Carolina football when they win it for the first time. When they win the division, when they win the SEC, win a major bowl game, etc. The opportunities to do it all for the first time here make it extra special.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Football #Winning
Number two, we're going to play with a lot of effort. Our guys are going to be in such good shape that fatigue is not going to be a problem. We're going to play with full effort from snap to whistle on every play the entire game.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Sports #Games #Play
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.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Smart #Team #Winning
So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.
-- Steve Spurrier

#Winning #Play #Guy

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