Mark Richt Quotes

We'll see if he can make some plays for us there, and see what happens over 15 practices. Even if he goes back to defense, he's creating some depth for us at receiver.

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Georgia's our home, period. That's just the way it is. I've said it since the day I got here, unless Georgia wants us to leave, this is where we're going to be.

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I don't think we compare quite to the accomplishments they had. That was definitely the greatest four-year period in Georgia history. ... We can't match the three SEC championships and the national championship.

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If you look at him as a fifth-year senior who's both a leader and a quarterback, I'd say he's doing a really good job. If you look at him as a first-year starter, he's doing an unbelievable job. I don't know where we would be without him.

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I don't think a playoff is the answer, ... I like college football the way it is. I really do. The regular season in college football is better than any sport in America, maybe the world.

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We're beat up and fatigued and there are some guys in Gainesville licking their chops. The guys on our defense are flat-out warriors. (Defensive tackle) Ray Gant would not come out of the game and probably should have a couple of times. You have to tip your hat to them and coach Willie Martinez and rest of our defensive coaches.

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They are a little different than some people we play. But it is not a smoke-and-mirror team. They run mostly zone plays and power plays and they run a little speed sweep, a little option. They love to establish the run. Most of their big plays passing come off the play action.

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They both weren't a good option, I didn't think.

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We've never done that. It's not a bad idea. I've never thought to do that but maybe in the future we will.

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It's been talked about a lot, probably more than most (openers) for us, and that's because we're playing a great team. It's a team that wins almost every time they play.

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I hope I'm here ... It's a great game. They have an SEC-like stadium and fan base, so it's pretty much like we're used to.

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A lot of this game will be trying to make adjustments as quickly as possible after we find out some of the goodies they've got ready for us.

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We just had to hang on for dear life today. It's not fun to see your boys go down. I also have to give a lot of credit to Arkansas. I tried to tell everyone how fast they were.

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Sometimes people think there is not enough support for college athletics without the beer industry, maybe. I don't know if that is true. There would be other sponsors that would be excited about uniting with college football.

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Last year, they played a bunch of close games. Learning how to win doesn't happen overnight. Coach (Bobby) Johnson has done a good job of teaching that in a real methodical way.

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It's just different from anybody we've seen. Thankfully, we've had time to practice and prepare for it.

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I felt like we had as good a chance this year to be in the fight as we had in any other year. I'm not really surprised, but I guess a lot of people thought it was doomsday.

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I thought he looked a lot like Shane Matthews. It was kind of eerie how much he looked like him. He looked like Shane Matthews as a second- or third-year player, not the first shot out of the cannon.

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It's a big game for us, I can promise you. They have done a wonderful job of stopping the running game and that's our strength going into this season.

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The bowl system has not necessarily ever been fair. It has a lot to do with economics. The only thing that's locked in is the winner of a conference title game gets a BCS game. That's the only thing that's guaranteed. That's what you fight for. That's what you can accomplish so you don't have to worry about all the political ends of the bowl system.

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Those guys are hard to tackle. Even if you call the right defense and have guys in the right positions, you still have to bring them down and we didn't.

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He's a high-energy guy and he's been leading us beautifully. He's been keeping people off our linebackers, and he's really playing pretty well so far.

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There's definitely some differences in style. That may give us grief in terms of preparation.

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If he really wanted the hype, he would've waited till the last day to decide what to do. I don't think there would've been any doubt that he would've been named quarterback of the world.

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We didn't really do a good job of telling everybody to keep it hush-hush. We just wanted to honor him tonight and show our support.

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