Steve Spurrier
Steve Spurrier
Stephen Orr Spurrieris a former American football player and coach, having served as the head coach of three college and two professional teams. Spurrier was also noteworthy as a standout college football player, and he spent a decade playing professionally in the National Football League. Spurrier retired from coaching in 2015 and now serves as an ambassador and consultant for the University of Florida's athletic department...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth20 April 1945
CountryUnited States of America
We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.
Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.
Football players are busy (with) study halls and tutoring. Well, anyway, at South Carolina they are. I don't know about all these other schools.
I really believe everything is here for us to be very successful.
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
I do get away maybe a little bit more than most coaches do, but that seems to have worked for me in my coaching career. I recommended the way not to get burned out from your job is to have some hobbies and get away from it when you can.
If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.
So you get two good hours on the field about every day, you get about an hour and a half in the meeting room and that's pretty much all you need to thoroughly coach your team.
The Pope is 77 years old and he's in charge of a billion people. All I have to do is put 11 on the field.
In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.
You know what FSU stands for, don't you? Free Shoes University.
I don't know. I always sort of liked playing [Georgia] that second game because you could always count on them having two or three key players suspended.
So, I didn't say we are going to win a lot, but we are going to play like winners, and we've got a plan in place to teach our guys how to play like winners and play like a champion.
You keep playing, you get a lead and build on it. People get mad when you keep playing, but that's part of the game, too.