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UF quotebook

By Times staff report
© St. Petersburg Times,
published December 2, 2001

Defensive end Alex Brown:

"We lost. Period. There is not another way to put it. We lost, and everyone is very disappointed."

Defensive tackle Ian Scott on Rose Bowl talk being distracting:

"You've got to talk about the SEC Championship Game because you have to win this one to get there. I don't think that was distracting. We didn't talk about the Rose Bowl. We just wanted to beat Tennessee, and we didn't do it."

Quarterback Rex Grossman on the final drive:

"We went down there and scored a touchdown, and we didn't capitalize on the two-point conversion. It's pretty simple. It's too bad that it had to come down to a two-point conversion."

Brown on the Vols' celebration:

"They deserved it. They won the game. I'm not going to say it wasn't hard to swallow. They fought for four quarters, and they were two points better than us."

Grossman on the future:

"It's over now, and whatever bowl game we go to, we are going to play our hearts out and hopefully knock the crap out of whoever we play. Now we know what we have to do. We can't drop our heads. We know what's at stake. We can't lose the last game."

Center Zac Zedalis on playing his final game at Florida:

"It hurts to go out like this. But I am proud to be part of the University of Florida -- win or lose. I'm proud to be here. And I'm proud to be around the coaches and the players. I wouldn't want to do it with anybody else. I'm proud of everyone even though we lost. I would do it again a 100 times."

Placekicker Jeff Chandler:

"This game reminded me so much of last year. We had so much riding on it. It was a tough one to lose. I am proud of this team. They worked hard. They tried everything they could but just came up short."

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