Steve Spurrier Good Quotations

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

Sidney Rice is doing some good things. He is still learning how to play out there,

I have always thought the Vandy kids played pretty hard and I just thought they were a little short on talent. They have really improved their talent level and they are playing well. They are an extremely good team.

He's a good runner. He gets his pads low and he's hard to tackle. He was player of the year in the state of Washington a couple years ago, so he's a good, solid back.

He contributes a lot, ... He's been a wonderful guy, does everything, weightlifting, been a good teammate for all the guys.

He contributes a lot. He's been a wonderful guy, does everything, weightlifting, been a good teammate for all the guys.

He is an excellent coach, an excellent recruiter and a good person. We think he will fit in extremely well here as he has in the past. He has a wonderful reputation as a coach and as a recruiter.

He's had a wonderful career here, a good guy who has played well. He's had a wonderful attitude all the way through. He's an upbeat, positive young man who is fun to be around.

He's a tough, good looking inside linebacker. He looks like those linebackers at Georgia and Tennessee and those other places.

Our attitude is not as good as it needs to be here at Carolina, trust me. We're not there. We have a long way to go. We don't have a great team right now. We have a team that is sort of building. We have some building to do. We have some attitude adjustments. We've got to have some players who really care a lot more than they're demonstrating right now. It can be done. But it's a work in progress.

We were just talking about who was the fastest in uniform, and I said Mike West. He got a good jump and he was gone. That's why we've got him at receiver. We're just teaching him how to run routes now.

We're very proud of the effort of our players. The effort was there. It was the little things here and there that made us a loser. We're just not sharp enough right now to beat a good team. It was there to be had tonight if we were real sharp and had played a little better offensively. Holding them to 17 points should be good enough to win a conference game.

We played well at times both offensively and defensively. But in the whole realm of 60 minutes we didn't play good enough to beat Missouri. It seems like they played faster than our guys did. Give them credit, they kicked our tails.

We're to the point, ... where if it's a close game late, something good is going to happen for our side.

We feel pretty good about a bunch of them. A bunch of them have pretty much indicated that they will commit to us, and there's some we can't take their commitments right now. So it's a balancing act.

We've got to work on signaling from me or the sideline to the quarterback. We're way behind on that. We need a good two weeks of communication teaching before we're ready to play.

Defense was putting pressure on us. They had some good blitz schemes going.

As long as his play on the field is good he doesn't have to be a vocal guy.

If our fans felt like booing, I would have said they had a good reason to. To me, you only boo if the guys are not playing with effort, (and if the) coaches don't look like they know what they were doing. We were all in that category. The fans will not hurt my feelings if we perform like that again and (they) boo.

If the play goes bad, it was a bad call - even though it might have been a pretty good call. That's just the way it is, and we accept it and move on.

I knew coming into the season that there was a good chance we were not going to win them all.

Their styles are very similar, ... He's learned a lot, he has a wonderful attitude and has tried to learn as much as he can. For a first-year quarterback in a brand new offense, he had a good night the other night.

The kids that play at a higher level, if they are good players at that level, then maybe they would have a little priority over a kid at a smaller level.

It's different, but that's where we are right now. For us to beat good teams, it's going to have to be something like that (score) right now.

I think our fans are expecting some good things in the future, ... I don't know if they expect a turnaround right away. I do think we have a team that's got a chance to do some good things this year. Now, whether or not we achieve that, we've got to wait and see.

I think our fans are expecting some good things in the future. I don't know if they expect a turnaround right away. I do think we have a team that's got a chance to do some good things this year. Now whether or not we achieve that, we've got to wait and see.

Hopefully our crowd will be here. We have a lot of recruits coming and it's always good to have 25,000-30,000 at the Spring Game. That would be a nice crowd. Turn out and support our guys and our players can put on a performance as if they know what they're doing.

It was a good first day. We'd be pretty stupid to be out here in the rain (today) and let this day go by. I just think it's smart to pick the good days instead of the bad ones.

Nothing hardly ever rattles Danny Wuerffel. He has such a sincere faith and belief in God that things are going to work out. He's definitely a good person to have helping to lead that school and those kids, the inner-city kids in New Orleans.

The effort was there. It was the little things here and there that made us a loser. We are not going to get discouraged. I knew coming into the season that there was a good chance we were not going to win them all.

They played smarter. They didn't have near the number of careless penalties that we've had most of the year. That certainly gave us a good chance.

We knew he was an excellent quarterback. We had him hemmed in in the first half, but we weren't good enough to do it the whole game.

We weren't quite good enough. We didn't block well enough or tackle well enough and that was the difference in the ball game. A little block here, a little tackle there.

We just wanted to look around in the stadium and realize how fortunate we are to be able to coach and play in front of 80,000 people that love their team like we have here. Who knows if it does any good or not? We'll find out Saturday at 1 o'clock.

He's not too emotional and he doesn't get angry about things. He just needs to experience some good things happening to him.

I don't yell at him near as bad as I used to. We yell at them a little bit, and then we pat them on the butt. We also tell them how good they're doing at times, too, so it's not all negative.

I don't want to praise our guys too much for beating this team. Had a few good plays here and there. Still a long way off.

I do think that we have a team that has a chance to do some good things this year, ... Now, whether or not we achieve that, we will just have to wait and see.

He popped that draw pretty good. He's a good runner. He gets his pads low, and he's hard to tackle.