Maria Taylor Quotes

How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

Well, I think any national championship is an extremely important championship to play in.

I have never played a game for the national title. Our goals always have been to win the Big Ten title and the Rose Bowl. If we do that, then we consider it a successful season.

The ACC is a great league.

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.

If Alabama were 8-4, they'd still be dominating the conversation.

It's a big deal to get to the NCAA Tournament.

I was a 52-year-old coach. But people don't realize I had 25 years as a head coach. Most coaches my age only had a few years as head coach. I had six years at Miami of Ohio, eight years at Northwestern, 11 at Notre Dame.

I definitely watch college football on Saturdays.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who's been successful at another college program, they're going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

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

My favorite sport, frankly, is college football. I'm a college football junkie, even though I'm associated with golf and like golf and have played it all my life.

I knew the Big Ten was one of the best conferences in the country. Every night you're up against pros. It's just so competitive. You can get beat by any team. That's really what I like about the Big Ten.

I'm an avid University of Miami Hurricanes fan. I hope to come to the day where I can still do some stuff for NBC and somehow integrate it with an RV tour of the South for college football. Luckily, my wife, she's a Florida State alum, so I wouldn't have to talk her into it. I think our kids would think we're weird.

Notre Dame is the one school that has a national recruiting base, from Florida to Texas to California.

College football is the only game in the country, of any kind, that the college game is longer than the pro game.

I'm not going to be the Alabama coach.

I was going from Furman to the University of Georgia. I transferred to play football.

What do I know about college football? I look like Orville Redenbacher. I have no business talking about college football.

The Heisman Trophy is such a special award.

I mean there's a hell of a difference between the Big Ten and the ACC when it comes to quality football.

It's Alabama. They've been the powerhouse. The face of college football.

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

Though I graduated from Vanderbilt, I was born into a family of crazed University of Oklahoma football fans and became one.

I love college football. I've been involved with college football since 1953. That's a long time as a player, coach and 30 years in television.