I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

If I miss coaching that much, I could go to some little school where they didn't recruit, where all the kids wanted to go. I believe I could find somewhere to coach.

There's no substitute for guts.

I left Texas A&M because my school called me. Mama called, and when Mama calls, then you just have to come running.

You win games with your strengths, not your weaknesses.

I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.

You have to learn what makes this or that Sammy run. For one it's a pat on the back, for another it's eating him out, for still another it's a fatherly talk, or something else. You're a fool if you think as I did as a young coach, that you can treat them all alike.