It’s a “Prime Time” for quotes with CU Buffs football coach Deion Sanders. Below is a sampling of things Neon Deion has said since being hired at Colorado:
Why do u have to think negative thoughts? Why do u look for negative things in the midst of a positive day. Negativity will always be present when positivity has the stage. As a man thinketh so is he the bible declares. Be conscious that your thoughts could direct your life. Be…
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) December 6, 2023
“We’re getting ready to start cooking,” Coach Prime said. “(Once we) decide to go pick up their grocery and make sure we do it right. You know what we need. Everybody (knows) what we need. And you know, darn well what we need. So we’re gonna get it.” Read more…
“We’re not an ATM,” Prime said. “That’s not gonna happen here. If you come to CU to play football for me and the CU Buffaloes, (it’s) because you really want to play football and receive a wonderful education. And all the business stuff is going to be handled on the back end, if that’s the case.
“But we are not an ATM. You’re not coming here to get rich unless you really come here with a plan to go to the NFL and get your degree. Not to come here and be (rapper) Moneybagg Yo.” Read more…
Deion Sanders said he won’t hold a grudge against the four California high school students who are accused of stealing from the CU locker room at the Rose Bowl last month. And he’s hoping Buffs fans will do the same.
“Let’s not crucify and punish these high school kids,” Coach Prime said Tuesday during his weekly news conference at CU’s Champions Center.
“Let’s make sure those kids atone for what they did, but (make sure) they don’t lose an opportunity to change their lives. They’re kids.” Read more…
Don't settle, don't agree to mediocrity & don't find yourself in a place of simplistic routine. Sooner or later you've got to identify what u want, devise a plan & go get it. The life u desire is waiting on u. Let's go baby! #CoachPrime
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) November 29, 2023
Diamond-encrusted necklaces among items stolen from CU Buffs locker room at Rose Bowl
“They shouldn’t be blessed?” Sanders said in the aftermath of the theft. “That’s crazy. It’s like if you have a car in your driveway and somebody comes and steal your car, well, you shouldnt have a car? That’s how stupid that sounds.” Read more…
Coach Prime focused on positives as CU Buffs aim to snap losing skid
“My life is positive,” Sanders said Tuesday during his weekly news conference. “You’ve got to understand I don’t dwell on yesterday. Losses are hard to flush tremendously for me, though, because I’m a bonafide winner.
“I’m a natural fixer and I want to fix things. I want to make things work. I want to make things right. I want our fans to be pleased. I want our AD to be ecstatic and I want our kids to all go pro and be successful in some form or fashion and that includes winning.” Read more…
Dreams don't become realities based on the dream. They become realities based on the Work that goes forth to make that dream a reality. Growth is activity & activity provokes growth. #CoachPrime
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) November 27, 2023
“Offensively, we’ve got to improve and you see that,” CU coach Deion Sanders said. “Our quarterback is taking a beating. (Shedeur Sanders) got an injection at halftime just to block some of the pain… We have to do a better job of protecting him. And running the football, we’ve had a couple lineman go down (with injuries), but that’s no excuse.” Read more…
If u wanna be great, prepare to be great. #CoachPrime
— COACH PRIME (@DeionSanders) October 25, 2023
CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders calls late game times “stupidest thing ever invented in life”
“Who makes these 8 o’clock games? Dumbest thing ever. Stupidest thing ever invented in life. Who wants to stay up until 8 o’clock for a darn game?” Sanders said on his weekly radio show. “What about the East Coast — do they even care about ratings? Is anyone watching it? What are we supposed to do with the kids all day until 8 o’clock? What are we supposed to do in the hotel?”
Asked by the host of his show, Mark Johnson, about maybe watching some football in the downtime, Sanders quipped: “Who’s playing on Friday?” Full story…
“We’re still searching for an identity,” Coach Prime said after his squad dropped a second-straight game to a top-10 foe.
But in using the ground game to set up the pass, a twist on previous CU offensive scripts, the Buffs might have found one. CU vs. USC game story…
CU Buffs have long way to go to match Oregon, USC up front. And Deion Sanders knows it.
“I think that was a good old fashioned butt-kicking,” Sanders, the Buffs’ first-year coach, said after suffering his first loss at CU and largest margin of defeat ever as a college coach. “No excuses. No nothing. Their coaches did a heck of a job preparing their team. Obviously, we didn’t. I mean, that was a really good, old-fashioned butt=kicking.” Read more…
CU Buffs have long way to go to match Oregon, USC up front. And Deion Sanders knows it.
“I wouldn’t lie,” Coach Prime said. “(It doesn’t just) translate on the field. It translates in practice … I don’t say stuff just to say it, for clicks, contrary to what some may say, and yeah I keep my receipts. But I am serious, I analyze and I understand what we’re up against (and) what we have and what we need.
“One thing that I could say, honestly and candidly (is), you better get me right now. This is the worst we gonna be.”
CU Buffs coach Deion Sanders condemns death threats toward CSU Rams’ Henry Blackburn
BOULDER — Coach Prime had a firm and direct message to fans and social-media posters who’ve thrown death threats at CSU Rams safety Travis Blackburn: Stop.
“Whatever it was (in the game), it does not constitute that he should be receiving death threats,” Buffs football coach Deion Sanders said at his weekly news conference. “He does not deserve a death threat over a game. At the end of the day, this is a game.” Read more…
Deion Sanders calls for forgiveness for Colorado State's Henry Blackburn, who received death threats after his hit on Travis Hunter. pic.twitter.com/Isr5oeW5bf
— ESPN (@espn) September 19, 2023
“I’m not new to this, I’m TRUE 2 THIS! And the Blenders Eyewear family and myself certainly see eye 2 eye on our commitment to QUALITY and STYLE,” said Sanders in a statement. “See, eyewear is much larger than just fashion. It’s an outlet to EXPRESS YOURSELF, it’s a CONVERSATION STARTER, it sets the DARN TONE! Look good, feel good, PLAY GOOD!”
News about the release comes as the University of Colorado and Colorado State University football teams are set to face off on the field Saturday in the Rocky Mountain Showdown. And their rivalry was the stuff of national news this week. Read more…
They here: Deion Sanders’ CU Buffs football ranked No. 22 in AP poll, 25 in coaches’ poll
“These young men, they know now, man, if we ball out, we’re going to get the love that we deserve,” Sanders said at his midday news conference Tuesday. “And that’s all they want. They want the attention and love they deserve.”
Keeler: We believe, Coach Prime. Beat Nebraska, the rest of the world will believe in CU Buffs, too.
FORT WORTH, Texas — After working over the Horned Frogs like Joe Louis, Coach Prime worked the scribes like Muhammad Ali.
Deion Sanders, 1-0, leaned into the microphone, his best friend for decades, and read the receipts he’d been keeping for months. Loud and proud.
“You said this. You said that,” Sanders chuckled after his Buffs stunned No. 17 TCU, and the free world, with a 45-42 win at Amon G. Carter Stadium. “Now what? Everybody’s quiet now. Now what? Now what?”
Another face. Another receipt. Read more…
“All this about money, you know that. It’s about a bag,” Sanders said.
“Everybody’s chasing a bag. And then you get mad at the players when they chase it. How is that? How is it grown-ups get mad at the players when the colleges are chasing it?”
While Sanders is comfortable in the knowledge that his Buffs stayed one step ahead of the storm that blew through the Pac-12 and left it for rubble, there’s no doubt in my mind that the beginning of the end of the league was when CU joined it a dozen years ago, when the revolutionary notion of monster conferences was in its infancy. Read more..
Deion Sanders defends CU housecleaning on Joel Klatt podcast, says Buffs football had bad attitude
“I walked into this one room and they had music playing,” Sanders recalled to Klatt in the debut episode of Klatt’s “Big Noon Conversations” series.
“Yo, first time meeting me, and I just finished telling you, ‘I’m bringing my Louis (Vuitton).’ I go into this one room, music is playing. I said, ‘Excuse me. What is this?’
“(They said), ‘Uh, coach, we always bring the boom box into our position meeting room.’
“I said, ‘Have you lost your mind? If you ever bring music into one of my meetings, I promise you, we will never see each other again in life.’” Read more…
Deion Sanders may have to have his left foot amputated, according to University of Colorado doctors.
The doctors delivered the news to Sanders in a meeting uploaded onto the Colorado head football coach’s YouTube channel Thee Pregame Show earlier this week.
Amputation is a possibility due to blood flow issues in Sanders’ foot, according to his medical team. He has struggled with blood flow in his left foot and previously had two toes amputated in 2021. He also referenced not having feeling on the bottom of his foot and is aware of the risks involved.
“I know what the risks are, I only have eight toes,” Sanders said to his medical team. “So I am pretty sure I understand.” Read more…
Sanders loves living in Colorado
Sanders on bringing his players to Colorado: “We got a few positions already taken care of, because I’m bringing my luggage with me,” Sanders told some current Buffs in a clip that, as Coach Prime videos do, quickly went viral. “And it’s Louis.”
“I’ve never been one for peer pressure; I put pressure on peers,” the Pro Football Hall-of-Famer and new Buffs coach said. “I’ve never been one to worry. I make people worry.” Read more…
Deion Sanders wows CU Buffs with Prime Time quotes
BOULDER — Deion Sanders was in prime-time form Sunday during his introductory news conference as the new CU Buffs football coach.
A sampling:
“Do I look like a man who worries about anything? Did you see the way I walked in here? Did you see the swagger? Baby, I’m too blessed to be stressed!” — on meeting the high expectations to turn around CU’s program. Read more…
Sanders meets with Colorado football team for the first time
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