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

I've made so many mistakes that if I don't make the same mistakes over, we're going to come pretty close to winning.

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

Nearly every coach I've talked with tells me that the attention you get from media and other people is the thing you miss most. I don't know if that's right.

When I was a young coach I used to say, "Treat everybody alike." That's bull. Treat everybody fairly.

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

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.