Top 57 Quotes & Sayings by Urban Meyer

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American coach Urban Meyer.

Last updated on September 16, 2024.

Urban Frank Meyer III is an American football coach. He served as the head coach of the Bowling Green Falcons from 2001 to 2002, the Utah Utes from 2003 to 2004, the Florida Gators from 2005 to 2010, and the Ohio State Buckeyes from 2012 to 2018. He retired from coaching in 2019 at the end of the Rose Bowl, and stayed at Ohio State as an assistant athletic director and was also an analyst for Fox Sports, appearing weekly on their Big Noon Kickoff pre-game show. In 2021, Meyer came out of retirement to take his first National Football League (NFL) job as head coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars, but was fired thirteen games into his first and only season.

American - Coach | Born: July 10, 1964

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

Urban Meyer

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.

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

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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.

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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.

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There's no perfect team.

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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.

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We do our best to win games.

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

Urban Meyer

Just do the best to do things the right way.

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We follow the rules and some guys make some mistakes and we gotta correct those mistakes. We follow the rules and we do it the right way at Florida and we have to do a better job of correcting some of the people making mistakes.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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

Urban Meyer

At the end of the day, I'm very convinced that you're going to be judged on how you are as a husband and as a father and not on how many bowl games we won.

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

Urban Meyer

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.

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

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Well, 2009 was a tough year.

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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.

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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.

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I've not seen my two girls play high school sports.

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I'm so ADD.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

Urban Meyer

There are certain states that just by quality and quantity you go, the Texas, the Georgia, the Florida, the Jersey, those are off the top of my head that we're going to saturate a little bit, but then we go cherry pick the best players at certain positions, and Ohio State is a national brand... and a national recruiting base.

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I love football. It's what I am.

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I do have strong opinions.

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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.'

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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.

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

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My dad was a big Woody Hayes guy.

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

Urban Meyer

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.

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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.

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I love all the other bowls, but being a Big Ten guy from Ohio and watching the Rose Bowl in the '70s with Archie Griffin, it's everything everybody says it was.

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

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You don't get 5 years to build a team any more. You get 2 if you're lucky.

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The future is bright at Ohio State.

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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved. Well-prepared players make plays. I have yet to be in a game where the most prepared team didn't win.

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I don't like disrespecting other teams.

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But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

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Coaches do get very nervous.

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I have yet to be in a game where luck was involved.

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Anyone can run the option. I can run the option.

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What makes LSU is the environment and the fans and those guys wearing the jerseys. They're really good players.

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If you can raise the level of effort and performance in those around you, you are officially a leader.

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It's competition. It's putting them in environments, in situations where I want to see who the fighters are and who they guys are that are going to compete. And there will be rewards at the end of the day. Gatorade if you win. You drink out of a water hose if you lose and do some running. And that includes the coaching staff.

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Elite warriors, when they accomplish their mission, they celebrate.

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I remember when I was coaching down at Florida, we would always lose kids in recruiting battles to Clemson. I would tell my coaches that we shouldn't be losing kids to Clemson. Charlie Strong responded ‘coach have you ever actually been to Clemson?’ I hadn’t but I’ll tell you what, I’ve been here now and I get it. This is an exceptional, special place.

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I have ignored my health for years, but recent developments have forced me to re-evaluate my priorities of faith and family.

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It is so easy to be average. It takes a little something to be special. Why be around average?

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