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

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.

I feel like I’ve been very blessed to have some great mentors through the years, starting with Don James, who was my college coach, who really inspired me to want to be a coach, which is not something that I really had in mind.

Whether it’s make good grades in school, be a good athlete, be a good person, go down and do some community service and help somebody who’s in need, whatever it is you choose to do, you’re investing your time in that.

We certainly don’t want them to do anything that’s going to affect themselves in an adverse way or affect our program, our university, or our team in an adverse way.

So when you think about that, you’re always motivated to, ‘I don’t want to lose the next game. I don’t want to lose the next game.’

There needs to be a college football commissioner.

I think a lot of times you have to face your fears. I think everybody has to face their fears.

We don’t have rules that people can’t use Twitter. We just want people to be responsible.

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