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.

If it is worth playing, it is worth paying the price to win.

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.

In life, you'll have your back up against the wall many times. You might as well get used to it.

I ain't never had much fun. I ain't never been two inches away from a football. Here guys go fishing on the day of the game, hunting, golfing, and all I want to do is be alone, studying how not to lose.

They say I teach brutal football, but the only thing brutal about football is losing.

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