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

A good, quick, small team can beat a big, slow team any time.

I don't have any ideas; my coaches have them. I just pass the ideas on and referee the arguments.

The old lessons (work, self-discipline, sacrifice, teamwork, fighting to achieve) aren't being taught by many people other than football coaches these days. The football coach has a captive audience and can teach these lessons because the communication lines between himself and his players are more wide open than between kids and parents. We better teach these lessons or else the country's future population will be made up of a majority of crooks, drug addicts, or people on relief.

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.

Hell, no! A tie is like kissing your sister!

I'm known as a recruiter. Well you've got to have chicken to make chicken salad.