Jalen Hurts

"It's hard to just sit here and reflect on four years, a whole year with my brothers this year, all of that right now. It hurts me. You talk about how much it means to you and the team. It's supposed to hurt. This is not a good feeling. This is a feeling I've never felt before. It hurts me in my heart, you know. When I decided to come to this school, I told Coach Riley, I'm going to go win you a National Championship, and I failed to do that. Moving forward, I definitely hope -- I've already told them, I hope that you guys learn from this. I hope everybody learns from this. It hurts me the most because usually, when you come up short in something, you can come back and you can fix it. I can't come back and fix it. I'll never play college football again."

"I think I hate losing more than I love to win."

"Everything I want to do is just quantify my work, just quantify the work that I put in. I don't really like to look at the results. Never like to look at the results, just the process of getting better. You can look back and say that there's so many things that motivate me and drive me to want more, to be the best. And why do I just keep getting up and going and going and going? But I had a purpose before everybody had an opinion. It's not about anybody else."

"You either win or you learn. That's how I feel. You either win or you learn. Win, lose, I always reflect on the things I could have done better, anything you could have done better to try and take that next step. That'll be the same process I always have going on."

"I didn't walk through all that fire just to smell the smoke."

"Defense played their ass off. They played how they played all year. I truly believe offense wins games but . How our defense has been able to play is a great testament to them."