Urban Meyer Quotes

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Urban Meyer

Profession : Coach

Birth : July 10, 1964

I do have strong opinions.

Urban Meyer

Well, 2009 was a tough year.

Urban Meyer

I'm not a fan of early commitments. I just think people right now are handcuffing players, pressuring players and I don't want to do that.

Urban Meyer

We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.

Urban Meyer

These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.

Urban Meyer

When a guy would write some scathing article about me, that used to really bother me. I didn't get it. I'm like, What is that? You don't know me... That ate me up.

Urban Meyer

When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that's very rare air.

Urban Meyer

When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we're all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.

Urban Meyer

Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.

Urban Meyer

We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.

Urban Meyer

We do our best to win games.

Urban Meyer

There's no perfect team.

Urban Meyer

There's no perfect program. And everyone deals with stuff. You know, when you're Ohio State or some of these other big-time programs, stuff becomes a major deal.

Urban Meyer

There are certain states that just by quality and quantity you go, the Texas, the Georgia, the Florida, the Jersey, those are off the top of my head that we're going to saturate a little bit, but then we go cherry pick the best players at certain positions, and Ohio State is a national brand... and a national recruiting base.

Urban Meyer

I think Percy Harvin is as good an athlete that's played football. Ever.

Urban Meyer

If you want to get players to your game, it's hard to get them there at noon.

Urban Meyer

I think when they put together this College Football Playoff, I think you... do you play a light schedule and put everything into your conference championship? That's not what I'm feeling across the country. They want to make every game important, which they have.

Urban Meyer

I think USC is not a glamour job. I think that's an elite, elite job. Why? Within two hours of your campus you can get the best players in America, or as good as any.

Urban Meyer

The talent in Florida, it's great, but sometimes it's underdeveloped, and it takes time for those guys to develop... I experienced it when I was with the Florida Gators, they're development players. For whatever reason, the high school coaches aren't paid near as well as the ones in Georgia and Texas.

Urban Meyer

I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact he did well academically.

Urban Meyer