Omari Hardwick Quotes

I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.

If I got a football scholarship, I was going to be a football player.

I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia.

Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years.

I wanted to go to college and play football.

I was a wide receiver at the University of Missouri but dropped out, having never gotten in a game.

My dream was to play football at Notre Dame more than anything.

There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.

If I didn't love the game, why would I play at the University of Kentucky? Why would I ever come here? It's a serious program.

I don't know how Coach Saban found me all the way in Hawaii from Alabama.

I had a full-ride football scholarship as a middle linebacker.

I played football for a huge portion of my life, all the way through college actually.

A Michigan man is going to coach Michigan.

I went to Brigham Young University on a football scholarship. I wasn't a football player; I was a place kicker.

I don't think there's been anything in the game of football in my lifetime that has changed college football more than redshirting.

I played football, honestly, to get a scholarship.

I'm going to be the next head coach at Notre Dame.

I actually ran in junior high school a little bit, you know, like most kids do in track and things. Then I got out of it and just trained for football and played ball for so many years - high school, college and the NFL.

I had played in a tournament with the captain of the University of Minnesota's golf team, and he thought I was good. He called his coach, and the coach called me and recruited me. A five-minute phone call changed my life.

I wanted to play football all my life, and when I got accepted to Florida State, it was academically - it wasn't for any kind of scholarship. I kind of sat down and said, 'I'm not going to make it to the NFL. I'm not the size nor the skill.'

I don't make a big deal out of playing football at UGA to people who have interviewed me.

Coming from a small town in New Mexico - Lovington, New Mexico - I was very happy to go to college for free and get a scholarship to play college football.

The University of Texas was very good to Will Muschamp and my family.

I always wanted to play in the NFL. I decided to go to Florida State University as my college to play football because the coach there - Bobby Bowden - had a pedigree and acumen for putting players into the league.

The University of Texas is a place, a special place, that deservedly holds a seat among college football elite.