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| 1 | Our main focus is to win the game. That is what we are going to prepare for. It is going to be an excellent game. Ohio State is an excellent team. We are going to have to go out there and play our best game. I have only seen the Michigan game, but I know they have progressed well throughout the year. They have some excellent coaches. We are going to have to prepare to the best of our abilities in order to be successful. |
| 2 | It is just a great feeling. It is a very exciting time for the Gators and for our families. We are just real thankful for what the Lord has put us in the position to do. This opportunity is real special. |
| 3 | This is why you come to Florida, to play for a national title. It's a great way to go out your senior year. We were confident (things would work out) because we know how hard we worked, we know all the time we put into this season and getting the younger guys ready. We knew if we got the opportunity, it would be well-deserved. |
| 4 | That's what football is all about: succeeding on and off the field. Education helps you get into leadership roles and really assists you with life goals. Going through life and playing college football transcend your normal college career and gives you a strong sense of accountability. This year our team just tried to stay around the top of the national polls, and being No. 2 in the BCS standings and playing for the national championship is a real honor. Playing in and winning the SEC are something that you take pride in, too. |
| 5 | I told coach on the sidelines, 'Just open it up and just let me go pick them apart.' Coach did a great job calling plays and the wide receivers did a good job getting open. The offensive line gave me time to set and throw. Those things are key when you want to be able to throw the ball down field. |
| 6 | I'm just doing whatever I can to help my team win. To be able to get a victory against an excellent team like Ohio State, that would be a chapter to close the seniors' season off. I'm all about my teammates, so my team is included in my legacy. |
| 7 | If we got an opportunity, we knew it would be well deserved. With the way the coaches and my teammates have worked throughout the season it makes me proud to know that all the hard work over the years is finally paying off. |
| 8 | I've always had great respect for Ohio State's program. They do all the right things. They have great players and great coaches. The number one ranking is very deserving. |
| 9 | This is how I felt last year. That was huge for us then and it is now, too. Not many players get to experience this and playing a great team like Florida State. It's something you can't explain. When you go undefeated in The Swamp, you know you've taken it back. The fans came out and supported us and we stuck together to get it done in the end. |
| 10 | My expectations every year are to compete for a national title. Being a veteran quarterback and having veteran guys around me, I'm really excited. |
| 11 | It goes by fast. I have enjoyed every year at Florida. I can remember every snap I've taken as a Gator. I have every snap on film. I'm expecting this to be my best year. |
| 12 | All these guys want a title. We want a ring on our finger right now. That's why - especially for our seniors - we're very hungry this year. In order for us to be successful with the schedule that we're having, everyone has to have their best year and play well. |
| 13 | I feel a lot more comfortable in the offense now. Coach comes to me all the time and asks me all the time what I like to run, what plays am I comfortable with. I always give him the top plays I'm real comfortable with and I think the guys around me are very comfortable. |
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| 1 | One of five children. |
| 2 | Was offered a scholarship to Wake Forest as an eighth grader after attending the Deacons' football camp. |
| 3 | Brother C.J. was a quarterback at Tennessee and is his hero. Began wearing No. 12 because of him, the number C.J. wore at Tennessee. |
| 4 | Father, Curtis Leak, is a pavement contractor and former NFL camp receiver and used to put Chris and brother C.J. through mini football workouts when Chris was five. |
| 5 | In a punt, pass and kick competition at age 11, he threw the ball 50 yards. |
| 6 | Felt Florida was his best option to win a national championship. |
| 7 | 4.0 in fall semester of 2002. |
| 8 | Chris has two passions - football and video games. Enjoys any 2004 NCAA football video games because he can play his brother, a former quarterback at Tennessee, and says he almost always wins. |
| 9 | He spent most of his savings on spring break his senior year of high school. Not for a trip to Cancun, or Key West, or even Panama City Beach. But to Gainesville, of all places, to study a Florida football playbook and game tapes. |
| 10 | In his freshman year of high school, he beat out a veteran player for the quarterback job. |
| 11 | Has been watching film since his youth football days back in Charlotte, N.C., when he, his dad Curtis and older brother C.J. would sit down together and watch for hours at a time. |
| 12 | As a freshman, roomed with Skyler Thornton and Andre Caldwell and the three would practice plays in their apartment lining up different plays in their living room. |
| 13 | According to former UF Offensive Coordinator Larry Fedora, Leak was the one who went over and got the water bottles filled and brought them to practice for the receivers, running backs and quarterbacks during voluntary conditioning in the summer of 2004. |
| 14 | During the summer of 2006, Leak visited the Manning family's passing academy. |
| 15 | His favorite college class at UF has been interpersonal communication. |
| 16 | Meets with the coaching staff on Thursdays to script the first 12 plays of an upcoming game. Leak first meets with his teammates to get their thoughts on what the 12 plays should be prior to meeting with the coaches. |
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