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

When you have the ability to affect other people and be somebody that somebody wants to emulate, care enough to help somebody else for their benefit, that’s what makes you a good teammate, and that’s what everybody’s looking for.

It’s been our goal as a program to always give our players the best opportunity to be successful, whether it’s personally, academically, or athletically.

I don’t know that there’s any particular scientific evidence that you could say, more guys get hurt in this offense versus that one, or hurry-up, or whatever, but everything that we’ve ever done in the NCAA is about exposure. How many exposures does a player get?

As a coach, when it comes to football players, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better. As people, we’re trying to change their behavior and make them better.

I would call them, whether it’s a playoff game, a bowl game, or one of these kickoff classic type things, which I think is helpful to, you know, our players in terms of playing some place that’s not really a home game for them.

All I know is that if we play well, we control our own destiny in terms of what we do.

One of these days when I’m finished coaching at Alabama.

Teachers are always trying to inspire people to do better, to learn, to grow. That’s what we do, and we’re proud of the success we’ve had here doing that, and it’s something we’ll certainly continue to do.

There’s certain things that I was taught growing up about not quitting and seeing things through.

Talent is talent, and everybody knows somebody who has talent or ability, but they never really converted it into a productive performance for whatever reasons.

No matter what is thrown at them, no matter how deep the hole, they find a way to bounce back and overcome adversity.

If you’re a coach, you’re a teacher.

I try to stay out of the spotlight.

Golf is a great example to me. Golf is a metaphor of life. I mean, every shot.

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.

One’s intelligence may march about and about a problem, but the solution does not come gradually into view. One moment it is not. The next it is there.

You know, our sense of individuality is just the number one target of civilization.

One is tempted to turn away with a grimace and close one’s mind: this is a temptation one must resist.

You’re the only one who can make the difference. Whatever your dream is, go for it.

If one is to learn to live with the dead, one must first learn to live with the living!

People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.

Paris is one of the largest, and certainly it is the pleasantest, of modern American cities.

If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him.