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" A team is a group of young men playing together. The program is the entirety of that. "

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" Every day I pull into that parking spot that says 'Head Football Coach,' I get out of my car and pinch myself sometimes, just to make sure it's real, sort of like, 'Is this really happening?' "

" I've got recruits that will text and call and do everything in the middle of the night. And I'm thinking, 'I'm with my family.' But you've got to dedicate time to that, or you can't do it. "

" The ultimate deal is: Are you winning and are you successful? The guys who've done that have had opportunities. "

" I always felt like, one of the niches is if you can recruit the SEC, you can be a head coach in the SEC. "

" Every young man that we want to bring here to the University of Georgia, we want them to graduate from this place. "

" To be honest, it makes you a lot better coach when your boss is in the meeting room. You're a lot more driven every day. "

" I don't think I've worked a day in my life. "

" The only thing that matters with my kids are them graduating and playing well, and I try to do my dangedest to get them to play well. "

" Coach Saban's a great coach; he does it his way, and I have to do it my way. I have to cut my own cloth. "

" There's a lot of people who think in order to be a good head coach, you've got to be a head coach at a smaller school. "

" I'm a big believer in your offensive limitations come from your quarterback. "

" I could finish my career being a defensive coordinator and say, 'Hey, he's Mickey Andrews.' "

" I think it's what's best for that kid. Are you going to teach that kid a lesson for 10 years down the road by suspending him a game? "

" Every kid I've been around as a football player, they want their coaches to make them better as men and as players. "

" A lot of people think our standard is to be first in the SEC, be first in the country, first in our red zone, and run defense. We really don't go by that motto. We go by, 'Be the best Alabama defense there's been.' "

" I might not have a conference championship or a national championship as a head coach, but I had the recruiting factor. "

" It never stops. It's 365 recruiting. That cell phone you've got, these smartphones are the death of college coaching. "

" I think the growth you get from working at a place like Alabama and with a program under Nick Saban, it helps me immensely. "

" I felt like I was selling a product of the University of Georgia that's really special and really special to me as far as the education you can get, the development you can get, and the league we play in. That's what I've sold. "

" Welcome to the world we live in as coaches. You've got to figure out what you can do best and better to get these kids a chance to be successful. I think that comes through a lot of things - confidence, improvement, recruiting. "

" A lot of people have said, 'Why not take a smaller school head job?' I honestly feel my growth was better being in a large program, being around Coach Saban, and learning how to manage a lot of the tough situations you deal with in the media. "

" When your mom and dad read the paper, they like to know their sons are on the roster. "

" It's a lot more important to get quality young men and good student-athletes that can be successful at the University of Georgia. That's my No. 1 goal. "

" At the end of the day, you have to go out on the grass and perform. "

" When you talk about the SEC, you never get a chance to rest. "

" It's always a danger when you've got a great quarterback that throws the ball well, that scrambles well. You may push him into his asset. You may force him to do what he does best. So you've got to be able to throw curveballs and stop the pass as much as stop the run. "

" I moved seven times the first seven years I coached. "

" To me, personally, my development to become a head coach will be much better working for Coach Saban than necessarily going somewhere else because you learn every day that you're in there. "

" At the end of the day, if you're not beating the teams on the road recruiting that you have to beat on the field, then you're probably not going to win many championships. "

" What I'm worried about is our team and our players developing and getting better. That's the most important thing. "