From Stanford football player Christian McCaffrey:
“I don’t play football for the personal accolades. I don’t play football for the fame. I play football for the love of the game.”
HOW YOU WIN
Brandon Wilson of the University of Houston football team (the guy who had the incredible run back off the missed FG vs Oklahoma)
“Culture wins games. We go hard all the time.”
LOCKED IN
Pitt head football coach Pat Narduzzi on the preparation before the Penn State game:
“We had the guys in here 3-4 hours on Labor Day watching tape. That’s how it’s supposed to be. I want our guys locked in.”
ONE THING YOU CAN’T LOSE
“Never lose your hustle.”
-Mike Sheppard
SHOW THAT YOU CARE
Charlie Strong on Texas QB Shane Buechele, a true freshman.
“You see him in the (football facility), he’s always around.”
STAY HUNGRY
Alabama head coach following their 52-6 win over USC:
“We need to improve as a team. We need to get more guys that can play winning football and create more depth on our team. More guys to contribute on special teams. We’ve got to build around the very good players that we have, but we’ve got to get more consistent execution I think from a lot of the players so we don’t have negative plays, we don’t have some of the things we had early on on offense.”
RESPONSIBILITY
Torii Hunter Jr. from Notre Dame football on playing and doing the right thing off the field:
“You don’t want to let your parents down. You don’t want to let the university down or your teammates down.”
(Source: ESPN Sportscenter interview, 9/4/16)
