Steve Spurrier Quotes


[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. - Steve Spurrier


[Richt] was a little different than a lot of the Seminoles... He was a little different type guy. - Steve Spurrier


[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. - Steve Spurrier


[But after embarrassing himself with the Redskins in a way that Lou Holtz once embarrassed himself with the Jets, Spurrier decided he couldn't play bogey golf for the rest of his adult life.] I told my wife, 'I need to go coach somewhere,' ... Then this opportunity popped up and she said, 'Why there?' I said, 'Well, first of all, it's in the South. It's in the SEC. I get to play against the same guys I've been playing for 12 years. Everything is there to be successful and yet they have never quite done it.' - Steve Spurrier


[Asked who the best running quarterback he ever coached was:] It may be Antonio Heffner... We haven't had many real runners. - Steve Spurrier


[A case of first-time nerves playing among his new peers?] No... Just bad play. No excuses. - Steve Spurrier


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(He) was running around like he did last year (before the injury). He couldn't run like that in practice last season. - Steve Spurrier


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