Best Quotes from SEC Media Days, Day 1

"It's a pretty damn hard league."

-Kevin Damn Sumlin, Texas A&M coach on playing the the SEC

"They say girls are prettier here, air's fresher & toilet paper is thicker"

-TJ Moe, Missouri WR on what people have been telling him about the SEC

 “No one program, no one person, no matter how popular, not matter how successful, can be allowed to derail the soul of an institution.”

-SEC Commissioner Mike Slive, on the Penn State scandal and accountability in athletic programs

“If you have a son and he’s a Division-I player, he’s coming to Vanderbilt. We have too much to sell. … If you’re truly the best and the brightest, where else would you go? You have an opportunity to chase both of your dreams at the highest level.”

-Jamey Franklin, Vandy coach on the New Vandy™

"If I made the schedule, Georgia would be playing LSU and we'd be playing Ole Miss."
-Steve Spurrier, South Carolina coach on his team's schedule

"Yeah, we need to get bigger and faster"

-Kevin Damn Sumlin

"People act like we've been playing a bunch of high school teams. We've played in a pretty tough conference."

-Gary Pinkel, Missouri coach on moving to the SEC

“Nobody stuck around. If you stuck around four or five years at South Carolina, to me you were something special. You were a good, solid citizen.”

-Spurrier

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