“You have the ball in your hand every time when you’re a quarterback. Whether you’re handing it off or throwing to somebody, I think that’s extremely important.”

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.

I always find it incredibly difficult to figure out whether I should reach for the check or not. I don’t want to presume anything, but I don’t want to be a ball-buster.

You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

Usually when we lose a game is because we turn the ball over or not play well enough and usually it is the turnover thing. We have to take care of the ball. It is starts with me and not turning it over.

But, if you miss (the supposedly easy pin) by just a little bit, you’re looking at the next putt from 30 feet. The ball just rolls away.

You only hit a straight ball by accident. The ball is going to move right or left every time you hit it, so you had better make it go one way or the other.

Jesus Christ can’t hit a golf ball straight. It’s virtually impossible – at best it’s an accident.

The crowd think that Todd handled the ball…they must have seen something that nobody else did.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.