Matt Leinart Quotations

I don't have any regrets. We're champions. They just got us this night.

If we can win one more game, then we can make a pretty good argument.

LenDale is so big and so fast, and he just wears on the defense. He's a great complement to a guy like Reggie. He can catch the ball, he can run after the catch, he can run after his carries. He just does everything well. He's a terrific back and a big part of why we've been so successful.

I saw what Alex signed for that's a pretty cool number. But what are you going to do? I have no complaints about coming back. I'm happy. One of the reasons I came back was to try and win (a third championship), but it's not something we can control now. We have the potential to do it. Obviously, it's going to be hard. It's a much harder challenge this year than last and that was very tough. We had three or four games that could have gone either way. But I don't see why we can't do it.

I was a little tight out there in the first half, you know it was an emotional day. I was off, obviously.

I won it last year and he deserved to win it. Obviously, his play on the field shows why he's the best college football player in the country. Playing really big in the big games and becoming more of a leader, he's a perfect description of a Heisman Trophy winner.

We were struggling. We were just bad, a bad football team in Coach Carroll's first year.

That's what it's all about, ... It's coming to South Bend, Indiana. One of the best rivalries in college football coming down to the last second on a QB sneak trying to get in the end zone.

Who knows what can happen? I watched a lot of (Texas') games during the season, and Vince is just a freakish athlete. He's big and fast, and those are hard to find. He showed what he's capable of doing. I think highly of him and wish him all the best.

We really don't care about the BCS. We'll care about it when there's one game left. It's important for us to start the game really fast, and they didn't stop us all game.

Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

We both kind of figured, 'Let's take that,' ... We'll practice our tango or whatever the heck they do the 1-2 step.

We still think we're a better football team. We just couldn't make the plays.

We've just got to go. We went for the win right there and to keep the clock going.

With the combined team of CAA, Chuck, Leigh, and Air 7, I am confident that my business affairs are in the very best hands. This gives me the freedom to focus on becoming the best football player I can be.

I've never even gone on that site. It's a cool idea, but I don't want to put myself out there.

Personally, I'd go. I'd go to the NFL.

Right now we're right where I hoped we were going to be when I made my decision. But I feel like this has been the best time of my life, these last four or five years, and Wednesday is kind of the culmination.

This defense is one of the best we're going to see, probably, if not the best.

You saw that with Fresno State, who after us completely went downhill, and that's a really good football team. And that's a perfect example of really giving us their best shot and giving everything they can to beat USC, and then they don't have enough to beat (Louisiana) Tech and Nevada, teams that they should beat by 20, 30 points. That's why what we've done is so special.

I knew I was going to get third. I wanted to go on stage as a past winner because I knew I wasn't going to win. The right guy won.

I'm just a winner. I'm a Tom Brady type. He's a winner.

It's been perfect so far. I couldn't ask for anything more.

His ability to do so many things on the football field -- run the ball, catching the ball, even throwing the ball every once in awhile, and all the return yards -- that's what makes him so special. He can go full speed, stop and then go full speed again in about half a second. It's amazing.

We went for the win right there and didn't convert. We felt like we could run it and were inches short.