“I never want to discontinue giving kids opportunities.”

I want what’s best for people who want to improve the quality of their life.

But the other guys that you have have to accept their leadership. They have to respond to it. That’s the chemistry that you never know how that is going to happen.

I think the worst thing a player can do is just not be yourself.

I said as soon as we had a playoff, we were going to minimize the importance of all the other bowl games. I’m not saying it’s good or bad; it kind of is what it is.

It’s great to see our players get some of their dreams come true.

You can’t keep your team together, and you are going to have more changes all the time. Personnel decisions aren’t always made by you, especially who you bring to your team.

I’ll write an authorized book because there’s only one expert on my life, and guess who that is… me. And there won’t be any misinformation. There won’t be any false statements.

There needs to be somebody that looks out for what’s best for the game, not what’s best for the Big 10 or what’s best for the SEC or what’s best for Jim Harbaugh, but what’s best for the game of college football – the integrity of the game, the coaches, the players, and the people that play it.

Our players get scrutinized pretty hard at Alabama.

Soccer is a continuous game, rugby is a continuous game, but for the physical elements that are involved in playing a football game and the number of plays that you play, I don’t know that it was ever intended to be a continuous game.

What makes Freddy Krueger such a horrible character? What makes him scare you to death? You can’t get rid of the guy. He never goes away.

When people have success, one of two things happen. They either get really satisfied and want to keep thinking about it and talking about what they did, or the success becomes a little addictive, and it makes them want to keep having more.

One thing about championship teams is that they’re resilient.

Bill Belichick was probably the most organized coach that I’ve ever been involved with.

I think anytime you play somebody on a yearly basis, you develop a history for what they like to do.

When you invest your time, you make a goal and a decision of something that you want to accomplish.

Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

People are not ants or bees. We do not reason or love or live or die collectively.

Such is O’Brian’s power to possess the imagination that I found I was living in his world as much as my own, wanting to know what happens next.

…all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

I really knew I wanted to be Adam, because Adam was the first man. Ant I chose because, if there’s a nuclear explosion, the ants will survive.