Vernell Brown Quotations

I don't care what people say. All I say is just watch me and that's kind of what I came out to prove this year.

He went first, now hopefully the rest of us will get our shot.

He makes you want to do the right thing. Not only for yourself, but for the team.

He's a great athlete. If he's going to play on Sundays, it's going to be doing that.

He's got some big ones. If I was a coach, no way I'd have tried that.

I always felt respected as a man, but I was never respected as a player (until this season). This season was great. We were 9-3. We had some mishaps. We could have been in the SEC Championship Game. Coach Meyer has brought the program a long way. We've got guys trusting each other. We've got guys doing the right things on and off the field.

I wouldn't say I got lost in the shuffle, but it did help me become a better person and a better player going through some of the things I went through.

It is a different focus from the team this time. Coach Meyer and the leaders of this team stress coming out to work and focusing on winning.

It felt good. That's something that I haven't had here since my freshman year. It definitely felt good to have a coach behind you, who believed in you.

When it's time to have fun, we have fun, and when it's time to work and get better, that's what we come out to do. In the past, people had gotten them mixed up.

We had a pretty good scrimmage, did a pretty good job against our offense. There were some good plays by the secondary, but it was the first scrimmage of the fall camp and we still have some work to do.

We've had our seat belts on. And we're trying to survive the ride.

We talked about how good it felt to go out of here with a win. And not just any win, but a win in the Outback Bowl.

Every drill is about competing. Coach is trying to teach those who don't know how to compete to compete. He lets us know that it is not all right to lose at anything, in any drill around here.

It's something that I definitely don't reflect on. I tend to look on what's ahead and try to capitalize on that.

It was kind of tough. It was one of the first serious injuries I've had throughout my football career, so it was pretty tough. But great players come back from adversity, and that's what I'm trying to do right now.

I want to go to the best place for me and that may or may not be Florida. I'll be happy wherever I end up.

I knew all I needed was a chance.

I guess you can call it ironic. But I forgot about that play two or three years ago. It was very emotional to put on the uniform for the last time. Coach Meyer has brought the program a long way. We play for the future.

If everyone had stayed healthy I think things would have turned out a little differently.

All that stuff in the past I just kind of put it out of my mind. I'm playing for the future. You want to go out a winner and we have a chance to do that now.