Urban Meyer Quotes

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Urban Meyer

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 10, 1964

Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.

Urban Meyer

I love football. It's what I am.

Urban Meyer

We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.

Urban Meyer

I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

Urban Meyer

Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It's nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.

Urban Meyer

The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I'll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.

Urban Meyer

I love all the other bowls, but being a Big Ten guy from Ohio and watching the Rose Bowl in the '70s with Archie Griffin, it's everything everybody says it was.

Urban Meyer

He's an extreme competitor. There are a lot of big freaks out there, God gave them talent, but they don't possess the same competitiveness that LeBron does. I think he's a very good leader, but I'm a huge fan, so I'm very biased.

Urban Meyer

Here is the truth: While at the University of Florida, and now at The Ohio State University, I have always followed proper reporting protocols and procedures when I have learned of an incident involving a student-athlete, coach or member of our staff by elevating the issues to the proper channels.

Urban Meyer

I think there's probably a perception that I did try to mislead people, that I tried to not be forthright about everything I knew about Zach Smith, Courtney Smith situation, which was not the case at all.

Urban Meyer

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

Urban Meyer

I've found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

Urban Meyer

I'm going to be the coach at Florida as long as they'll have me.

Urban Meyer

I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.

Urban Meyer

I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. 'Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.'

Urban Meyer

I'm so ADD.

Urban Meyer

My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.

Urban Meyer

I've been in rivalries. Utah-BYU. Bowling Green-Toledo. Florida, we had three: Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia. You make them personal, but they're not. I didn't grow up disliking Georgia.

Urban Meyer

A lot of people say two-a-days is the time to get them tough. It's over by then. You better not be getting tough in August. Our whole philosophy in August is to get ready for the first game. June and July are to get ready for August. Our whole goal in the middle of February is to develop toughness.

Urban Meyer

In everything we do there's a winner and a loser.

Urban Meyer