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" 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. "

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" If you chart SEC champions over a 20-year period, the one consistent thing to me is you're not going to win if you don't have a quarterback. It's too critical of a position. He decides something every play. "

" Change is uncomfortable. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" How do you play well? You practice well. You prepare well. "

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

" It's very important that we don't make the same mistakes twice. That's a big part of improvement. "

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

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

" 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? "

" 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 you have success with, you feel comfortable with, you always rely on that a little bit. "

" The amount of pressure that I've put on myself as a defensive coordinator for the last 10, 11 years, I really believe there's a lot more decisions that go into that position than the head coach. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I think, as a coach, you have to be willing to do what's best for the player. And you say what's best for the player: is it better to give him a game suspension, three-game suspension, no suspension. I think each case may be different in that. "

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

" I don't recruit against Nick Saban. I recruit for the University of Georgia. "

" 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. "

" My family's so happy in Tuscaloosa. My wife loves it. "

" It's never me against Saban, and I have too much respect for him to say that anyway. I never felt that way. "

" There's nothing worse than recruiting a player and then leaving the player. "

" I think you never leave what you learn. "

" 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. "

" 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.' "

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

" I don't believe in the coach-in-waiting thing. I don't think that works. "

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

" It's very rare that Georgia and Alabama are the only two teams recruiting a kid. "