Byu Quotes

• Reminiscing No one knows ... until you live it, to be there, to tee it up each week, to get yourself ready, the players and whatever else.... I think its a very, very difficult, tough and demanding job. And to be able to, particularly, stay at the level of expertise that we have over the years. Along with the fact that we have made football a presence at BYU. I think those are the things that are about as satisfying as anything that has happened. Then, of course, the players.... I think the thing that will be the most difficult is leaving the relationships and the involvement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Jobs, Player

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• Coming out of BYU's football spring, 1999, practice: We might have a chance to be pretty good.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Spring, Practice

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• Edwards commented as he signed an extension to his contract. We have good young players in the program and strong schedules in the coming years. The future looks bright for BYU football. I also want to get a number of projects off the ground before I retire.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Strong, Player

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• Current condition of the BYU football program? I think it's in good shape. We've got some good young players. We've had two or three pretty good recruiting years. We lost some players, obviously, that hurt us, but you always have turnover in college through attrition (graduation, transfers). That's the nature of the game.

  LaVell Edwards

  Graduation, Football, Hurt

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• The Brigham Young University (BYU) campus was just a few blocks from my home and tuition was minimal.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Block, Home, Tuition

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• We must never forget that BYU is not just another "good" university. It was established by the Lord's servants and continues to be blessed with the direction and support of prophets, seers, and revelators. While we may not understand all of the details, we do know that Brigham Young University occupies a key place in the Lord's plans for the completion of His work in these last days.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Blessed, Keys, Support

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• I don't like Utah. In fact, I hate them. I hate everything about them. I hate their program, their fans. I hate everything

  Max Hall

  Football, Hate, Utah

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• I have been asked what I mean by my word of honor. I will tell you. Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground - there is the possibility that in some way or another I may escape; but stand me on the floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of the circle? No. Never! I'd die first!

  Karl G. Maeser

  Wall, Truth, Lying

  "The Circle of Honor" by David Brooksby, www.ldsbc.edu. June 05, 2012.

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• Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Littles, Had Enough

  "Romney hasn't earned our trust" By LZ Granderson, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2012.

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• I didn't choose BYU, I like to think it chose me.

  Neil LaBute

  Thinking

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• If for a while the harder you try, the harder it gets, take heart. So it has been with the best people who ever lived. (The Inconvenient Messiah, BYU Speeches, Feb 15, 1982)

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Heart, Adversity, People

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• They were not easy years. You have to understand, I was raised in a lovely neighborhood, as was Mitt, and at BYU, we moved into a $62-a-month basement apartment with a cement floor and lived there two years as students with no income... Neither one of us had a job, because Mitt had enough of an investment from stock that we could sell off a little at a time.

  Ann Romney

  Jobs, Years, Two

  "Mitt Romney: ‘95% Of Life Is Set Up For You If You’re Born In This Country’" by Ryan Grim, Arthur Delaney, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2012.

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• I hope each of us realizes, at least in part, what a rich blessing it is to be at BYU. We are better prepared to receive and achieve the wonderful advantages and opportunities that life has yet to offer us because of what has happened to us here.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Blessing, Opportunity, Wonderful

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• I received my Master's degree from the University of Utah while coaching at Granite High School. I obtained my doctorate from BYU while coaching. I pursued these degrees to prepare myself if coaching didn't work out.

  LaVell Edwards

  School, Utah, Work Out

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• The Wyoming game in 1974, my third year as head coach. My first year, we were 7-4; the second year, we went 5-6; the third year started out 0-3-1. Some of the players got together and had a team meeting to get a few things straightened out. Starting with the Wyoming game, we won 6 straight games and won our first conference championship, the second in BYU's history. We went to the Fiesta Bowl, the first of many bowl games for the Cougars.

  LaVell Edwards

  Team, Player, Years

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• After attending a banquet honoring the 1974 BYU team that won the Western AthleticConference and went to the Fiesta Bowl. It was the first of Edwards' 18 WAC champions and 21 bowl teams. That was the group of kids that totally changed the direction of my life and the direction of our football program. We started 0-3-1 and won seven or eight in a row. They were the first bowl team in school history. I hadn't really accomplished anything yet. To see all those guys reminded me where we've been. It was an emotional night.

  LaVell Edwards

  Football, Team, School

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: I do know this, that I'm finally a little bit more relieved than I've been for some time. Patti (his wife) and I have talked about it a lot and came to that conclusion (to retire). I had a feeling of serenity, if you will. In fact, I was feeling so serene that I put in a film of Florida State, and that got me out of that mood in a hurry.

  LaVell Edwards

  Time, Retirement, Florida

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• BYU takes on defending national champion Florida State in the Pigskin Classic in Jacksonville, Fla., eight days after announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: We looked at it. We knew it would make things tougher. But how many chances does anyone get to play Florida State? It was too good to pass up.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Play, Florida

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• How can you rank BYU No. 1? Who'd they play - Bo Diddley Tech?

  Bryant Gumbel

  Football, Play

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• We have reached the point where we can lose a game or two and not drop out of sight in the rankings. I've been asked if it bothers me that BYU hasn't received the recognition it deserves. Well, BYU's gotten a lot of recognition over the years; I've never felt slighted. I honestly believed that we didn't deserve to be ranked any higher last year.

  LaVell Edwards

  Sight, Years, Games

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• While our institutional mission and destiny are not in doubt, how we each participate and understand our individual responsibilities requires constant attention, effort, and vigilance. BYU will progress and prosper, but our individual success is not guaranteed without our own personal best efforts and worthily received blessings.

  Cecil O. Samuelson

  Responsibility, Destiny, Blessing

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