Steve Spurrier Quotes

Whenever you are coaching, you are trying to get the most balanced team that you can: balance between defense, offense, and rebounding.

As a player, I had no idea whatsoever about getting a team ready for a game, what it entails.

We probably spend more time talking about individual players in our coaching sessions than anything else.

I just coach and get my guys ready.

Us coaches love to have as many players available as possible.

To look at the players, to communicate with the players, to observe and to analyze - that's my job.

I have no desire to coach basketball.

You know over 20 years I played for a number of managers and dozens of coaches. I don't know any of them that I didn't learn something from to help make me a better player.

I enjoy basketball. I enjoy coaching basketball. It's the out-of-season stuff I didn't handle well.

Finding good players is easy. Getting them to play as a team is another story.

I find young kids. I enjoy coaching and enjoy making them better players.

I have coaching friends, and when we get together, we often talk more about what we're doing to get players' attention than we do about the fascinating X's and O's of our sport.

There is still a big onus to be coached. I understand the best teams don't need a huge amount of coaching, but that's when a coach should decide not to do coaching.

In club football you have your players and staff with you all the time, preparing for two games a week, you know them inside out, you have a discipline over them.

When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach.

On the playing side, a lot of guys I played under were pretty good managers.

I don't think I was a fine game coach. I'm trying to be honest. I think I was a good practice coach.

I think your team evolves every year. The more you know about it, the better you can coach it.

For us as coaches, we're in a different locker room. So we're coming in pregame, halftime. They spend a lot more time in that locker room than coaches.

I want to build a team who can play home and away the same.

One of the things I like to do is let the players play and the coaches coach.

I think it is inevitable that I'll be coaching or be a GM.

I enjoy working with players who want to work and I get more satisfaction with that than ready made teams or players.

It's really an organizational job with a football team to watch them go through their day.

The preseason's all about getting good film out there, making the most of the opportunities that you get.