If they don't have a winning attitude, I don't want them.

At Alabama, our players don't win Heisman Trophies. Our teams win National Championships.

If wanting to win is a fault, as some of my critics seem to insist, then I plead guilty. I like to win. I know no other way. It's in my blood.

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.

If anything goes bad, I did it. If anything goes semi-good, we did it. If anything goes real good, then you did it. That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

The biggest mistake coaches make is taking borderline cases and trying to save them. I'm not talking about grades now, I'm talking about character. I want to know before a boy enrolls about his home life, and what his parents want him to be.

I make my practices real hard because if a player is a quitter, I want him to quit in practice, not in a game.