Top 30 Urban Meyer Quotes

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 do have strong opinions.

We do our best to win games.

He’s an extreme competitor. There are a lot of big freaks out there, God gave them talent, but they don’t possess the same competitiveness that LeBron does. I think he’s a very good leader, but I’m a huge fan, so I’m very biased.

Here is the truth: While at the University of Florida, and now at The Ohio State University, I have always followed proper reporting protocols and procedures when I have learned of an incident involving a student-athlete, coach or member of our staff by elevating the issues to the proper channels.

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

We ran into some bumps in the road at the University of Florida.

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.

Just do the best to do things the right way.

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.

There’s no perfect team.

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

I’m an early riser.

In everything we do there’s a winner and a loser.

I love football. It’s what I am.

My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.

I’m not a fan of early commitments. I just think people right now are handcuffing players, pressuring players and I don’t want to do that.

I think there’s probably a perception that I did try to mislead people, that I tried to not be forthright about everything I knew about Zach Smith, Courtney Smith situation, which was not the case at all.

When you start using terms like national championship and playoffs, that’s very rare air.

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.

Well, 2009 was a tough year.

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.

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

The talent in Florida, it’s great, but sometimes it’s underdeveloped, and it takes time for those guys to develop… I experienced it when I was with the Florida Gators, they’re development players. For whatever reason, the high school coaches aren’t paid near as well as the ones in Georgia and Texas.

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

I love Torrance Gibson. I love his talent. I love the fact he did well academically.

I’ve found that it is possible to have balance between your job and your family, that there are coaches out there who are doing it.

I think USC is not a glamour job. I think that’s an elite, elite job. Why? Within two hours of your campus you can get the best players in America, or as good as any.

I think Percy Harvin is as good an athlete that’s played football. Ever.