Jim Leavitt Ball Quotations

Being here is great. But we're here to win a football game.

Right now I just want to win. I came here to win a football game ... I don't want South Florida football to be just 'Oh, we did this, we did that'.

It's a sense of contentment that we reached a bowl this year. But we're really driven to win a football game.

I felt we could run the ball on them, we just couldn't do it consistently. At times, we did some great things offensively. But we didn't put the ball in the end zone, and you have to give credit to (N.C. State's) defense for that.

The one thing I'm proud about our football team is we battled. You've got to give credit obviously to North Carolina State's defense. They did a great job.

The bottom line is, you've got to get the ball in the end zone.

Everybody is so excited about getting to a bowl ? but it is not enough. We want to win this football game and that's it. I would hope that every player on our team wants to win in the worst way and does all they can to do that.

He's a young guy, a true freshman. We told him after the first time that he can't hold the ball down (low) and he's got to put the ball away. Those two turnovers gave us two tough situations.