It's a simple truth that the greater your accomplishments -- your victories -- the greater opposition, torment, and discouragement your enemies will throw in your path. Expect it and don't become a victim of it, so I'm telling our fans expect those people that are our enemies to talk bad about us.

Steve Spurrier

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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.

Steve Spurrier

team sports two

In Knoxville, they're still doing cartwheels because they went 7-6 and won a bowl game.

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trash-talk games talking

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.

Steve Spurrier

keys player two

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.

Steve Spurrier

talking people years

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.

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mad games people

You can't spell Citrus without UT

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great-football trash-talk talking

In the offseason, why can't it be a little lighter? It's not life or death. I try to have a little fun, but all of my comments are true. I don't lie. If they get mad at me for saying something that isn't true, then tap me on my shoulder and say, 'That isn't true.'

Steve Spurrier

mad fun lying

Recruiting can be a little deceiving at times. You never know what you've got until you really, really play it out.

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deceiving play littles

If I had a defense like Hal Mumme has, I would be trying them on every kickoff.

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defense would-be trying

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance.

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block simple sports

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.

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player football school

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.

Steve Spurrier

coaching careers jobs

Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.

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fun football years

All I can say is that I'm going to try to coach the way I've coached in the past. And if it ends up not being good enough, then so be it.

Steve Spurrier

trying way past

I think I've got an outstanding defensive assistant staff that's really going to help us have consistent, strong defenses. And offensively, we have an excellent staff. We've got some younger guys on offense, but that's what I coach and have my entire coaching career.

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strong sports thinking

We're not anxious to play L.S.U. again.

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lsu anxious play

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet. (telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books

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real football sports

What I've been telling everyone that loves Carolina football is that we are going to put a team out there that, number one, is in good shape. We're going to be fit, we are going to be able to play the whole game and we're not going to poop out.

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game good team football

Our stadium seats over 80,000, and we sell all of our tickets.

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our over sell stadium

I do have some young coaches, but I don't really believe that is the biggest problem we have here.

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some problem young believe