Top 53 Quotes & Sayings by Will Muschamp

Self-evaluation is hard, and it starts with me, and it falls on my shoulders, and I'm responsible. But at the end of the day, you are what you are.

When you talk in terms of a rivalry game, it's always important for our guys to understand the history of the rivalry and the history of the game.

I'm a good special teams coach, and I can recruit.

When a safety makes a mistake in the middle of the field, everybody should notice.

The biggest thing for me is to be accessible. When a high school coach comes on our campus, they can sit in every position meeting they want to sit in. They can come to every practice. And the comments I've gotten from our high school coaches is how accessible we are to them. That's what you need to do to build those relationships.

Tackling and playing well in space against any spread offense is very important.

I have great memories of watching SEC football with my father on Saturdays and playing football in the backyard with my two brothers right here in Gainesville.

I couldn't afford to go to an out-of-state school.

The University of Texas was very good to Will Muschamp and my family.

You control what you can control.

I want the University of Florida to be successful. I'm always going to be a Gator, unless I'm on the other sideline.

At the end of the day, be in the game as the game's ending. That's the most important part.

At the end of the day, I'm a good defensive football coach.

At the end of the day, you're loyal to the people writing your checks.

At the end of the day, I grew up wanting to play in the SEC.

I probably made a mistake at Florida trying to change schematically from what they had done before. As a result, we ended up not being very good at anything.

It's interesting in the recruiting process because I have recruits and parents that say, 'You're so positive about the other schools!' And I am, because I had a great experience at LSU. I had a great experience at Auburn. I had a great experience at Florida.

My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.

You don't want a guy to be happy he's not starting.

It's not a right to play at Florida. It's a privilege.

One of the great rights as an American citizen is freedom of speech, one of the things that makes this country what it is.

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

I think it's a lack of journalistic integrity to print things with anonymous sources.

Team and individual goals are great, but not understanding how we achieve those goals and the work it's going to take to achieve those goals, if you don't understand that process, then it doesn't matter.

Perception is not always reality.

I think you live and learn every day on the job.

I was very involved defensively at Florida, and regardless of popular opinion, I wasn't as much on offense. Should have been, but I wasn't.

The SEC is a line-of-scrimmage league. You'd better be good up front, or you're going to have some long days.

I can't imagine, as a father, losing my son.

Standing up for what you believe in, to me, is freedom of speech. And that's a right that every American citizen has and what makes this country great.

We need to play between the whistles. That's what tough competitors do. They don't run their mouth.

I've lined the field. I've washed the uniforms. I've washed my own equipment. Those Division I guys don't understand that. I've worked myself up the ladder.

You are what your record is.

If a guy's not executing very well, then obviously we haven't given him enough looks in practice.

There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.

It doesn't change whether it's Georgia, Clemson or Florida or Tennessee. You have to fight out there on the recruiting trail every day. And recruiting's a lot like shaving: If you don't do it every day, you start looking like a bum.

It's my favorite thing to do, grilling.

The worst thing you can do in a leadership position is be something you're not.

As long as Will Muschamp is the head coach at the University of Florida, Urban Meyer will be a part of this program. He needs to be involved with this program for our players. He's a great sounding board for me and part of this great tradition.

It's our job to make sure the players are ready to play at a high level. Part of that is making sure that the emotion is in check.

Good teams understand how to compete, how to practice the right way.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

I think people who know ball and know me know that I'm a good coach.

I think you live and learn each year, whether you're a head coach, coordinator, or business manager. You learn different things that work and different things that don't.

The best friend I have is competition.

I believe it was seventh or eighth grade: I went to a Danny Ford football camp. A buddy of mine was a big Clemson fan, and coach Ford put on a camp, and we did actually enjoy ourselves.

Sometimes you've got to put your realistic glasses on and see who you are.

We talk to our players all the time, 'Just control what you can control.' It's no different in life.

Life's unfair. You're going to have things happen to you.

I think, as a coach, you've got to do what your players can do.

The collisions happen 40 yards down the field, so if you take off from 5 yards or 10, it does not even matter. Do I make sense? I mean, come on.

It's not about being a head coach, I'd rather be a DC at Auburn and win championships.

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.