Will Muschamp

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

You are what your record is.

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

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

There's no credibility in anonymous sources.

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

There's no better Gamecock than Marcus Lattimore.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

Recruiting is not an exact science.

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

My dad was a coach and a schoolteacher.

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

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.

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

You control what you can control.

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

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.