“People talk about you won four national championships. Well, I feel like we’ve had good enough teams to win eight. So I feel like we failed four times. I feel like I failed four times.”

Once you get good, you need a total disposition about staying good.

Steph Curry is special in terms of the kind of competitor he is.

Probably the number one position that has the greatest number of players to choose from is receiver. When we’re out there recruiting, there are a lot of receivers out there to recruit. It’s harder to find defensive players.

I’ve had a lot more success helping guys then just being punitive.

There’s two parts of leadership. You’ve got to be a good leader – you’ve got to be somebody that people want to emulate and care about the other people.

I think if I would have come home and told my dad that I was going to quit the team, I think he would have kicked me out of the house. I don’t think I’d have a place to stay.

I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.

I want what’s best for our country. I’m not sure I can figure that out.

I don’t control what people say. I don’t control what people put on dot-com or anything else.

If we’d had Drew Brees, I might still be in Miami.

I think people who grow up in one particular environment, like the Alabama-Auburn game, they don’t ever get the same appreciation for the Ohio State-Michigan game or the Michigan State-Notre Dame game or the Michigan-Michigan State game, the Browns and the Steelers.

Mick Jagger can sing. Mick Jagger is a great entertainer.

My wife goes to Birmingham five times a week. My mom lives in Birmingham now after moving from Myrtle Beach. It’s not just the job. A lot of people don’t get that. My life is here.

Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you’re around guns unless you’re going hunting, and you don’t want to mess around with women that you don’t know because a lot of times, bad things happen.

It’s a free country. I know we have a lot of regulations in the world right now in what we can and can’t do. I would rather our people be responsible and not have to be regulated.

You can’t allow yourself to be vulnerable.

Everybody on a championship team doesn’t get publicity, but everyone can say he’s a champion.

Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.

I’m pissed off. ‘Cause I knew I did something wrong. I’ll have a hell of a season if I win the championship and average 20 points a game.

I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing up.

When I talk about a successful program, define that. It’s not just winning the national championship every year because nobody can do that.

I think when you win the national championship, it works throughout your team. Where human nature is to say, I did well. I got my quota this month.

To win a national championship, you’ve got to be a little lucky.

I expected to be a pretty good NBA point guard and hopefully win a championship. But MVP and all this stuff? Not really.