Urban Meyer

“Our job as a coaching staff is to mentor, to discipline and to educate young people.”

“I am fully committed to Ohio State, the football program, as long as I can.”

“These people that are in consuming jobs - you forget to do one thing. And that's to take care of yourself.”

“My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.”

“When a guy would write some scathing article about me, that used to really bother me. I didn't get it. I'm like, What is that? You don't know me... That ate me up.”

“I was always fearful I would become That Guy. The guy who had regret. 'Yeah, we won a couple of championships, but I never saw my kids grow up. Yeah, we beat Georgia a couple of times, but I ruined my marriage.'”

“The compulsive, obsessive, high-end, achieving people, those are the ones that keep pushing harder. I'll name you the greatest players I ever coached, and every one of them have that same trait.”

“I love football. It's what I am.”

“I've been in rivalries. Utah-BYU. Bowling Green-Toledo. Florida, we had three: Florida State, Tennessee and Georgia. You make them personal, but they're not. I didn't grow up disliking Georgia.”

“Building takes passion and energy. Maintenance is awful. It's nothing but fatigue. Once you reach the top, maintaining that beast is awful.”

“We have a set of core values. Honesty, respect.”

“When you logically think about it, what the BCS people have done, which obviously we're all part of it, I think it was great for a while. I think it took an imperfect system and did the best you can without a playoff.”

“I do have strong opinions.”

“There's no perfect program. And everyone deals with stuff. You know, when you're Ohio State or some of these other big-time programs, stuff becomes a major deal.”

“Chris Corso became a friend several years ago, I've always loved his restaurants.”

“I'm going to be the coach at Florida as long as they'll have me.”

“A lot of people say two-a-days is the time to get them tough. It's over by then. You better not be getting tough in August. Our whole philosophy in August is to get ready for the first game. June and July are to get ready for August. Our whole goal in the middle of February is to develop toughness.”

“If you want to get players to your game, it's hard to get them there at noon.”

“Whenever a team has three weeks to prepare, and it's an excellent coach and coaching staff and great players, you've got to work on it all.”

“In everything we do there's a winner and a loser.”