NEW YORK-- Florida quarterback Tim Tebow won the Heisman Trophy and Saturday night and gave an emotional speech thanking his family and repeating the line “I love being a Gator.” Towards the end, he also delivered a special thanks to his teammates for staying the hell out of his way this year.

“I always said that this is team award,” said Tebow. “And I couldn’t have done this without the help of my teammates. Without them staying the hell out of my way, week in and week out, something might have happened to derail my candidacy. But no, they relaxed and let me win the games. They didn’t try to be heroes. And that’s why I share this award with them.”

Tebow also praised the coaching staff for putting his teammates in a position not to do anything stupid.

“Our coaches are real good at putting guys in the right position,” Tebow said. “And the right position is usually out of my way. If we weren’t required to have eleven guys out there I’d just as soon be by myself. But if I have to a group of guys watching me win games, I wouldn’t pick anyone other than this group of guys right here.”

Tebow, the first sophomore to ever win the Heisman, possesses a rare combination of size, speed, and accuracy. For the season, he leads his team with 838 rushing yards. The next best total belongs to wide receiver Percy Harvin, who has 599.

Harvin said he was honored to help Tebow win the Heisman.

“Tim is a great quarterback and I’m just proud to be a part of this,” said Harvin. “I definitely feel like I played a small part in helping him win it. I’ll never forget that one play during the Georgia game when he was running a QB draw and I was standing between him and the end zone and he was like ‘Move!’ and I leapt into the air, fully extended, and landed a few yards away, providing him enough of a crease to slide into the end zone. To me that epitomized our whole season. I only hope some NFL scouts were watching.”

With a Heisman under his belt, the focus now turns to Tebow’s future. Will he play four years at the University of Florida or will he bolt to the NFL after his junior year? That all depends, says Tebow, on the progress of the team.

“We’ll see what kind of shape the team is in,” he said. “If we win a title next season I’ll be able to go to the NFL knowing I finished what I started here. If not, maybe I’ll come back again. All I know is that I won’t take the decision lately. I don’t want to become some sad sack failure like Matt Leinart.”

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