Any team that does not win it's conference championship game should not play in the BCS title game

The number one thing on any team that will keep your players from being selfish is respect for the other players.

I think everybody should take the attitude that we're working to be a champion, that we want to be a champion in everything that we do. Every choice, every decision, everything that we do every day, we want to be a champion.

There is no continuum for success. Focus on the progress, not the results.

I’m not going to be the Alabama coach.

In the NFL you get one first-round draft pick if you're lucky. You couldn't really outwork anybody else. In college I could recruit ten players with first-round talent every year.

The roster that we have today may change tomorrow. It is what it is for right now.