Matt Leinart Quotes

I feel like I'd be lying if I sat here and told you I was extremely confident and not nervous. It's excitement, but I'm also just anxious to get this over with. You're anxious to figure out where you're going to be living for the next 10-15 years, or whatever, of my life.

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His message was that every game is tough and, yeah, we finished undefeated and, yeah, we won the national championship, but it wasn't easy. There were a lot of games where we battled back and had to show our mettle as a team. We still have to fight to beat people.

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It would have changed my decision if they would have brought in a new guy, ... They brought Sark back. That was enough for me.

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Everyone thinks we're going to beat everybody by so many points, ... That's not how college football works.

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We could be pretty scary. We could score a ton of points, probably average more than any SC team in the history of the school.

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I didn't want to celebrate until the clock hit zero, ... because who knows what can happen in three seconds. It was just a great game, and I'm still really speechless. I would imagine this will go down as one of the greatest games ever played.

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I really didn't know what happened. I just knew the whistle blew.

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I've been here for five years.

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Positive. Most people don't know this about me, because I never talked about it it's not something football players want to get around the locker room. But as a kid, I'd watch Fred Astaire movies with my mom and dad and I'd think, 'If I could be him, I'd be the happiest man in the world.' Sure, I wanted a shot at another national championship, but the real reason I stayed an extra year in school was to take that ballroom dancing class to see if it was for me. And it was.

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My main strengths are leadership, game management - what I've done in games the last three years.

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I think the quarterback position is mostly mental. Physically, you've got to be able to throw the football and run around and make plays. But the biggest part is preparation. Preparing yourself in the film room, or on the chalkboard with your coach.

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That loss is always going to be with me.

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I wasn't ready to give up being a kid, ... It was the hardest decision I ever made, but I wanted to stay in school.

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Two undefeated teams, no controversy. That's all that's left.

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It's always a concern when you lose two starters.

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I don't consider myself a celebrity, by no means. But I know a lot of people do, a lot of people kind of look at me like that. So when I do go out, it's like, OK, there's the USC guy.

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With the combined team of CAA, Chuck, Leigh, and Air 7, I am confident that my business affairs are in the very best hands. This gives me the freedom to focus on becoming the best football player I can be.

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I made some really dumb throws, ... I take a lot of the blame for how the offense worked.

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He came in like a little baby, just a 17-year-old kid. He had all the athleticism and potential in the world. He just couldn't quite find it.

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It's tough being in L.A., being in the limelight and being the only team there that really had success the last couple of years. I think it's the closest thing to the NFL. I've done tons of interviews, I've seen lots of things happen, so I think I'm very prepared.

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I don't have any regrets. We're champions. They just got us this night.

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That's a great win for us against a team that we've struggled with for the last couple of years, ... I don't think we really thought about (2003). We just wanted to make a statement today that things are changing, and that they're going to have to bring their best shot.

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Whether we're leading at halftime, leading at the fourth quarter or, like Notre Dame, waiting all the way until there are three seconds left, we never have any doubt.

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Everyone made a big deal about it all offseason. I think we've proved in the first two weeks that it doesn't matter. He was a great coach, but coach Kiffin and Sark are two of the finest young coaches in the country.

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He's excited about the possibility of me possibly being there (with the Jets), but he said he doesn't have much control of that situation.

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