Success doesn't come from pie-in-the-sky thinking. It's the result of consciously doing something each day that will add to your overall excellence.

I'm tired of hearing all this talk from people who don't understand the process of hard work-like little kids in the back seat asking 'Are we there yet?' Get where you're going 1 mile-marker at a time.

Your character is your accumulation of your thoughts, habits and priorities on a day-to-day basis.

We're not going to talk about what we're going to accomplish, we're going to talk about how we're going to do it.

We create a standard for how we want to do things and everybody's got to buy into that standard or you really can't have any team chemistry. Mediocre people don't like high-achievers and high-achievers don't like mediocre people.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

I've always been able to stay focused on trying to recruit good players and trying to develop those players.