I have no magic formula. The only way I know to win is through hard work.

When you're there, it's not good enough to be there.

I'm fairly confident that if I died tomorrow, Don would find a way to preserve me until the season was over and he had time for a nice funeral.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

The ultimate goal is victory. And if you refuse to work as hard as you possibly can toward that aim, or if you do anything that keeps you from achieving that goal, then you are just cheating yourself.

He wants to be his own man and be recognized for what he's done. He's not asking for anything because of his name. That was a tough situation to go into at Alabama, but he probably wouldn't have been given the job if the situation would have been different.

Lots of leaders want to be popular. I never cared about that. I want to be respected.