“I think I’m pretty misunderstood, because I’m not just about football.”

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.

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.