What are you doing here? Tell me why you are here. If you are not here to win a national championship, you're in the wrong place. You boys are special. I don't want my players to be like other students. I want special people. You can learn a lot on the football field that isn't taught in the home, the church, or the classroom. There are going to be days when you think you've got no more to give and then you're going to give plenty more. You are going to have pride and class. You are going to be very special. You are going to win the national championship for Alabama.

I don't hire anybody not brighter than I am. If they're not brighter than I am, I don't need them.

It's nice to have the opportunity to play for so much money, but it's nicer to win it.

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.

That's all it takes to get people to win football games for you.

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.

Expect the unexpected.